All 7 Uses
audible
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
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- She was given to laughter and when anything amused her, she laughed inaudibly, quivering and shaking all over till she felt ill.†
Chpt 1.3 *inaudibly = 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.
- "Lizaveta," murmured Raskolnikov hardly audibly.†
Chpt 2.4audibly = in a manner that can be heard
- You are not Amalia Ivanovna, but Amalia Ludwigovna, and as I am not one of your despicable flatterers like Mr. Lebeziatnikov, who's laughing behind the door at this moment (a laugh and a cry of 'they are at it again' was in fact audible at the door) so I shall always call you Amalia Ludwigovna, though I fail to understand why you dislike that name.†
Chpt 2.7audible = capable of being heard
- "What do you mean...what is....Who is a murderer?" muttered Raskolnikov hardly audibly.†
Chpt 3.6audibly = in a manner that can be heard
- "Then how do you know about it?" she asked again, hardly audibly and again after a minute's pause.†
Chpt 5.4
- "You had better tell me straight out...without examples," she begged, still more timidly and scarcely audibly.†
Chpt 5.4
- He walked right to the table, leaned his hand on it, tried to say something, but could not; only incoherent sounds were audible.†
Chpt 6.8audible = capable of being heard
Definitions:
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(1)
(audible as in: barely audible) capable of being heard
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(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."