All 8 Uses of
audible
in
Anna Karenina
- why it was that at certain hours they played by turns on the piano, the sounds of which were audible in their brother's room above, where the students used to work;†
Part 1audible = capable of being heard
- Glancing at his wife and Vronsky, he went up to the lady of the house, and sitting down for a cup of tea, began talking in his deliberate, always audible voice, in his habitual tone of banter, ridiculing someone.†
Part 2
- "It is one as it is," she answered, scarcely audibly.†
Part 2 *audibly = in a manner that can be heard
- The sound of the carriage-springs was no longer audible, the bells could scarcely be heard.†
Part 3audible = capable of being heard
- In a little dirty room with the painted panels of its walls filthy with spittle, and conversation audible through the thin partition from the next room, in a stifling atmosphere saturated with impurities, on a bedstead moved away from the wall, there lay covered with a quilt, a body.†
Part 5
- With inaudible steps she went quickly to the sick man's bedside, and going up so that he had not to turn his head, she immediately clasped in her fresh young hand the skeleton of his huge hand, pressed it, and began speaking with that soft eagerness, sympathetic and not jarring, which is peculiar to women.†
Part 5inaudible = 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.
- In the transparent stillness of morning the smallest sounds were audible.†
Part 6audible = capable of being heard
- He still might have turned her back, but she had reached the door, he was still silent, and the only sound audible was the rustling of the note paper as he turned it.†
Part 7
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."