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The Fellowship of the Ring
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- Sam muttered something inaudible.†
Chpt 1.12 *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.
- Sam went red to the ears and muttered something inaudible, as he clutched the box and bowed as well as he could.†
Chpt 2.8
Definitions:
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(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."