Both Uses
audible
in
Oryx and Crake
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- Three crows are flying overhead, their wings black flames, their words almost audible.†
p. 333.2audible = capable of being heard
- The words were hardly audible.†
p. 352.3 *
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."