Both Uses of
audible
in
Oryx and Crake
- 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) 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."