Both Uses
audible
in
The Glass Menagerie
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- ...[Amanda's voice becomes audible through the portieres.]†
Scene 1audible = capable of being heard
- AMANDA [faintly, almost inaudibly]: —No.
Scene 2 *inaudibly = unhearable (because she speaks so softly)standard 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."