All 7 Uses of
audible
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Not a soul passed that way for a long while, and the faint notes of the band were the only human sounds audible within the rim of blue hills.†
Chpt 1 *audible = capable of being heard
- While yet many score yards off, other rhythmic sounds than those she had quitted became audible to her; sounds that she knew well—so well.†
Chpt 1
- Approaching the hay-trussers, she could hear the fiddled notes of a reel proceeding from some building in the rear; but no sound of dancing was audible—an exceptional state of things for these parts, where as a rule the stamping drowned the music.†
Chpt 1
- A particularly fine spring came round, and the stir of germination was almost audible in the buds; it moved her, as it moved the wild animals, and made her passionate to go.†
Chpt 2
- "How warm 'tis to-day!" she said, almost inaudibly.†
Chpt 3inaudibly = 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.
- Tess could hear the occupants of the cottage—gathered together after their day's labour—talking to each other within, and the rattle of their supper-plates was also audible.†
Chpt 5audible = capable of being heard
- His silent self-generated regrets were far bitterer than the reproaches which his wife rendered audible.†
Chpt 6
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."