All 5 Uses
audible
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Washington Square, by Henry James
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- Even to this inquiry she gave no audible assent; she simply let him put his arm round her waist—as she did so it occurred to her more vividly than it had ever done before, that this was a singular place for a gentleman's arm to be—and in a moment he was guiding her round the room in the harmonious rotation of the polka.†
Chpt 4audible = capable of being heard
- His murmurs, however, were inaudible; and for a while he said nothing to any one.†
Chpt 8 *inaudible = 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 her father had expected this, and he was not constrained to set down her intellectual limitations as a tourist to sentimental depression; she had completely divested herself of the characteristics of a victim, and during the whole time that they were abroad she never uttered an audible sigh.†
Chpt 24audible = capable of being heard
- Morris greeted this question with a reflexion which was hardly the less impudent from being inaudible.†
Chpt 28inaudible = 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.
- And then he answered audibly: "Never in the world!"†
Chpt 28audibly = in a manner that can be 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."