All 3 Uses of
audible
in
The Crucible
- MARY WARREN, hardly audible: Aye.†
p. 95.0 *audible = capable of being heard
- MARY WARREN, almost inaudibly: I did, sir.†
p. 101.8inaudibly = 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.
- PROCTOR, almost inaudibly: No. Danforth, now sensing trouble, glances at John and goes to the table, and picks up a sheet—the list of condemned.†
p. 140.4
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."