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sounder
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sound \Sound\, a. [Compar. Sounder; superl. Soundest.] [OE. sound, AS. sund; akin to D. gezond, G. gesund, OHG. gisunt, Dan. & Sw. sund, and perhaps to L. sanus. Cf. Sane.]
Whole; unbroken; unharmed; free from flaw, defect, or decay; perfect of the kind; as, sound timber; sound fruit; a sound tooth; a sound ship.
Healthy; not diseased; not being in a morbid state; -- said of body or mind; as, a sound body; a sound constitution; a sound understanding.
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Firm; strong; safe.
The brasswork here, how rich it is in beams, And how, besides, it makes the whole house sound.
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Free from error; correct; right; honest; true; faithful; orthodox; -- said of persons; as, a sound lawyer; a sound thinker.
Do not I know you a favorer Of this new seat? Ye are nor sound.
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Founded in truth or right; supported by justice; not to be overthrown on refuted; not fallacious; as, sound argument or reasoning; a sound objection; sound doctrine; sound principles.
Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me.
--2 Tim. i. 13. heavy; laid on with force; as, a sound beating.
Undisturbed; deep; profound; as, sound sleep.
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Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective; as, a sound title to land.
Note: Sound is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, sound-headed, sound-hearted, sound-timbered, etc.
Sound currency (Com.), a currency whose actual value is the same as its nominal value; a currency which does not deteriorate or depreciate or fluctuate in comparision with the standard of values.
Sounder \Sound"er\, n. One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
Sounder \Sound"er\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A herd of wild hogs.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: sound) n. 1 Something, or someone who makes a sound. 2 (context nautical English) A device for making soundings at sea. 3 An instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound. 4 The collective noun for a group of wild boar.
WordNet
n. a device for making soundings
Wikipedia
Sounder is a young adult novel by William H. Armstrong, published in 1969. It is the story of an African-American boy living with his sharecropper family. Although the family's difficulties increase when the father is imprisoned for stealing a ham from work, the boy still hungers for an education.
"Sounder", the dog's name, is the only character name used in the book. The author refers to the various characters by their relationship or their role in the story. The setting is also ambiguous. The author notes prisoners were hauled in "mule-drawn wagons", and the mention of chain gangs places an upper limit to the story of 1955 when the practice ended. The boy hears his father may be in Bartow and later Gilmer counties but the author does not specify where the boy lives. Since the boy is assured his father would not be taken out of state, and because the ground freezes, we are left to assume the family lives in the counties around northern Georgia or northwestern South Carolina.
Sounder won the Newbery Award in 1970, and was made into a major motion picture in 1972.
Sounder may refer to:
- Sounder, a book by William H. Armstrong
- Sounder (film), a film based on the novel
- Sounder, a group of wild boar or domestic pigs foraging in woodland; see List of animal names
- Sounder, a device that transmits a signal and uses the returned signal to measure characteristics of the propagation medium
- Echo sounder, a device used to measure water depth using sonar
- Atmospheric sounder, also known as SODAR
- Sounder (band), a Brazilian Thrash Metal band.
in the Seattle area:
- Sounder commuter rail, a transit system serving the Puget Sound area
- Sounder, a member of the Seattle Sounders professional soccer teams
in telecommunications:
- Sounder (radio). a station identifier in a radio broadcast
- Telegraph sounder, a device for detecting operability in a telegraph
- a Windows command line audio player for WAV format
in spacecraft
- Atmospheric sounder, a space-borne instrument for passive atmospheric measurements
Sounder is a 1972 DeLuxe Color drama film in Panavision directed by Martin Ritt and starring Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, and Kevin Hooks. The film was adapted by Lonne Elder III from the 1970 Newbery Medal-winning novel Sounder by William H. Armstrong.
Usage examples of "sounder".
As a matter of fact the ancient doctrine of the Divine Essences was far the sounder and more instructed, and must be accepted by all not caught in the delusions that beset humanity: it is easy also to identify what has been conveyed in these later times from the ancients with incongruous novelties--how for example, where they must set up a contradictory doctrine, they introduce a medley of generation and destruction, how they cavil at the Universe, how they make the Soul blameable for the association with body, how they revile the Administrator of this All, how they ascribe to the Creator, identified with the Soul, the character and experiences appropriate to partial be beings.
I supposed that if Gypsum were taken over by a sounder company, then the bonds would move up in price.
The Modern State arose indeed out of the same social imperatives and the same constructive impulses that begot Marxism and Leninism, but as an independent, maturer, and sounder revolutionary conception.
Among much else, he suggested the method that led directly to the invention of refrigeration, devised the scale of absolute temperature that still bears his name, invented the boosting devices that allowed telegrams to be sent across oceans, and made innumerable improvements to shipping and navigation, from the invention of a popular marine compass to the creation of the first depth sounder.
I could easily imagine that his writings must have given great offence at Rome, and that with sounder judgment he would have avoided this danger.
Aboard this vessel was a fancy new depth sounder called a fathometer, which was designed to facilitate inshore maneuvers during beach landings, but Hess realized that it could equally well be used for scientific purposes and never switched it off, even when far out at sea, even in the heat of battle.
Romans exhibited the higher pluck, but the Kanakas showed the sounder judgment.
An hour before reaching Punta Arenas, he'd received an urgent coded communication from General Dodge ordering him to covertly meet the Sounder when she docked in port.
So we went till it was high noon on the plain and glimmering dusk in the thicket, and we saw nought, save here and there a roe, and here and there a sounder of swine, and coneys where it was opener, and the sun shone and the grass grew for a little space.
Like as a wayward childe, whose sounder sleepeIs broken with some fearefull dreames affright,With froward will doth set him selfe to weepe.
Beneath the water, the echo sounders relayed a three-dimensional map of the seabed far below, while from the bulbous bow section the forward sonar scan.
Beneath the water, the echo sounders relayed a three-dimensional map of the seabed far below, while from the bulbous bow section the forward sonar scan-ner looked ahead and down into the black waters.
The pilot of the research boat, Gary Marx, kept one eye trained on the echo sounder while scanning the river ahead with the other.
We slowly circled the wreck, watching its mass rise from the bottom on the echo sounder.
He glanced at the echo sounder every few seconds to make sure the seabed didn't take a sudden rise toward the keel.