All 3 Uses of
audible
in
Summer Pleasures, by Nora Roberts
- Ready to spit and scratch even though her heart was pounding hard enough to be almost audible.†
Chpt 1.4 *audible = capable of being heard
- The creek was distant but still audible.†
Chpt 1.5
- His name was barely audible, but the sound of it was enough to bring him to desperation.†
Chpt 1.8
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."