All 3 Uses
audible
in
Summer Pleasures, by Nora Roberts
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- 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) 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."