All 7 Uses of
audible
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- 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) 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."