All 5 Uses of
audible
in
Great Expectations
- 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) 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."