All 7 Uses
audible
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
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- Exactly: and that is the ineluctable modality of the audible.†
Chpt 3 *audible = capable of being heard
- Bloom in a torn frockcoat stained with whitewash, dinged silk hat sideways on his head, a strip of stickingplaster across his nose, talks inaudibly.†
Chpt 15inaudibly = so quietly it almost couldn't be heardstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inaudibly means not and reverses the meaning of audibly. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- He reads from right to left inaudibly, smiling, kissing the page.†
Chpt 15
- BLOOM: (Wonderstruck, calls inaudibly) Rudy!†
Chpt 15
- Mr Bloom, availing himself of the right of free speech, he having just a bowing acquaintance with the language in dispute, though, to be sure, rather in a quandary over voglio, remarked to his protégé in an audible tone of voice a propos of the battle royal in the street which was still raging fast and furious: —A beautiful language.†
Chpt 16audible = capable of being heard
- —They accuse, remarked he audibly.†
Chpt 16audibly = in a manner that can be heard
- What different problems presented themselves to each concerning the invisible audible collateral organ of the other?†
Chpt 17audible = capable of being heard
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."