All 9 Uses
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Atlas Shrugged
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- Eddie's voice was barely audible.†
Chpt 1.8 *audible = capable of being heard
- When Francisco raised his head, Rearden saw a face drawn by so great a suffering that its lines were almost an audible cry of pain, the more terrible because the face had a look of firmness, as if the decision had been made and this was the price of it.†
Chpt 2.4
- "I beg your pardon," he said, his voice barely audible, "I didn't hear what you said."†
Chpt 2.9
- "What was the name of the factory?" she asked, her voice barely audible.†
Chpt 2.10
- The boy caught her puzzled glance, grinned and, as if to help her, whistled softly, almost inaudibly the first notes of Halley's Fifth Concerto.†
Chpt 3.1inaudibly = 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.
- ....The sound ray is invisible, inaudible and fully controllable in respect to target, direction and range.†
Chpt 3.3inaudible = 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.
- Mr. Thompson glanced at James Taggart, at the sloppy posture of a tall figure slumped in ungainly self-distortion, and caught him watching Galt's movements with such hatred that Mr. Thompson sat up, fearing it would become audible in the room.†
Chpt 3.8audible = capable of being heard
- "I'll find them some day, whoever they were ...." said Francisco; the tone of his voice, flat, dead and barely audible, said the rest.†
Chpt 3.10
- "Hello, Dr. Akston," he said; the quiet, low tone of his voice was the audible image of a smile transmitted through space.†
Chpt 3.10
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."