All 10 Uses of
audible
in
Middlemarch
- But no sooner did he face the four eyes than he had to rush through the nearest door which happened to lead to the dairy, and there under the high roof and among the pans he gave way to laughter which made a hollow resonance perfectly audible in the kitchen.†
Chpt 3audible = capable of being heard
- The red fire with its gently audible movement seemed like a solemn existence calmly independent of the petty passions, the imbecile desires, the straining after worthless uncertainties, which were daily moving her contempt.†
Chpt 3
- "Anything else anything else!" said old Featherstone, with hoarse rage, which, as if in a nightmare, tried to be loud, and yet was only just audible.†
Chpt 3 *
- She went towards him with inaudible steps, and thought that his face looked strangely motionless; but the next moment the movement of the flame communicating itself to all objects made her uncertain.†
Chpt 3inaudible = not capable of being heardstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inaudible means not and reverses the meaning of audible. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- "Dear, dear!" said sister Martha, not meaning to be audible, but driven to some articulation under this pressure of dates.†
Chpt 4audible = capable of being heard
- "It's not a thing I would put in my drawing-room," said Mrs. Mawmsey, audibly, for the warning of the rash husband.†
Chpt 6audibly = in a manner that can be heard
- Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?†
Chpt 7inaudible = not capable of being heardstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inaudible means not and reverses the meaning of audible. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- But his voice was perfectly audible, though hoarser than usual, and his words were distinctly pronounced, though he paused between sentence as if short of breath.†
Chpt 7audible = capable of being heard
- "If you like," Rosamond answered, just audibly.†
Chpt 8audibly = in a manner that can be heard
- Dorothea set earnestly to work, bending close to her map, and uttering the names in an audible, subdued tone, which often got into a chime.†
Chpt 8audible = 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."