All 5 Uses of
audible
in
City of Bones
- "No," Jace said, and she would have asked what it was, but they had arrived at her house, and her heart had started to thump so loudly that she was sure it must be audible for miles.†
Chpt 6audible = capable of being heard
- The sound of footsteps in the hallway was audible now, striking pangs of fear into her chest.†
Chpt 8 *
- She heard Simon suck in his breath—a tiny sound, barely audible—and Jace shook his head at them both, mouthing words: They can't see us through it, but we can see them.†
Chpt 8
- He muttered something nearly inaudible, then: "Fine."†
Chpt 18inaudible = 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.
- Jace made a soft, almost inaudible noise at that—a chuckle.†
Chpt 18
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."