Both Uses of
audible
in
Do You Speak American?
- "Fashion leaders are concentrated among young women of high gregariousness," Labov says, calling the linguistic changes he has studied "the audible equivalent of the visual effects of fashion."†
Chpt 2 *audible = capable of being heard
- One of her poems, "Barely Audible," echoes imagery used by the legendary blues singer Billie Holiday in "Strange Fruit," about black lynchings.†
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."