All 5 Uses
audible
in
Great Expectations
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- This was received as rather neat in the sergeant; insomuch that Mr. Pumblechook cried audibly, "Good again!"†
p. 30.9 *audibly = in a manner that can be heard
- When I had lain awake a little while, those extraordinary voices with which silence teems began to make themselves audible.†
p. 389.2audible = capable of being heard
- In his two cabin rooms at the top of the house, which were fresh and airy, and in which Mr. Barley was less audible than below, I found Provis comfortably settled.†
p. 400.3
- At the same moment, without giving any audible direction to his crew, he ran the galley abroad of us.†
p. 472.7
- It was a consequence of his hurt that he spoke so low as to be scarcely audible; therefore he spoke very little.†
p. 485.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(audible as in: barely audible) capable of being heard
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In football, the term has come to include an instruction shouted from the line of scrimmage.
Recently, the word is also being used to indicate sounds that could be played on a phone or computer; for example "audibles include creative hellos that can be downloaded."