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A Death in the Family
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- An auto engine bore behind the edge of audibility the furious expletives of its incompetence.†
Chpt 7 *audibility = the state of or degree to which something can be heard
- The child continued to look up at him and a tune came unexpectedly into his head, and lifting his voice almost to tenor he sang, almost inaudibly: Oh, I hear them train car wheels arumblin, Ann, they're mighty near at hand, I hear that train come arumblin, Come arumblin through the land.†
Chpt 7inaudibly = 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.
- her husband exclaimed, almost inaudibly.†
Chpt 11
- "Oh, Hannah, no, let him, his mother said in her strange voice, "he was so crazy for Jay to see it, and even as she said it he was surprised all over again for his aunt, whispering something inaudible, touched his cheek very gently.†
Chpt 14inaudible = 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.
- He leaned towards Aunt Hannah and said, in a grinding, scarcely audible voice, "Is she — chuff-chuff-chuff?†
Chpt 17audible = capable of being heard
- And then their Aunt Hannah murmured agreement in an oddly cool, remote tone, and their mother's voice of acceptance was scarcely audible at all.†
Chpt 17
- And clearly, although not one word was audible to the children, the voice was not mistaken in this love.†
Chpt 17
- The realization came without shape of definability, save as it was focused in the pure physical act of leaving the room, but came with such force, such monstrous piercing weight, in all her heart and soul and mind and body but above all in the womb, where it arrived and dwelt like a cold and prodigious, spreading stone, that she groaned almost inaudibly, almost a mere silent breath, an Ohhhhhhh, and doubled deeply over, hands to her belly, and her knee joints melted.†
Chpt 18inaudibly = 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.
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."