All 9 Uses of
audible
in
Atlas Shrugged
- 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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(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."