All 7 Uses
audible
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
(Auto-generated)
- 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:
-
(1)
(audible as in: barely audible) capable of being heard
-
(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."