sound vs music
music vs soundsound and music both are nouns.
sound is an adjective but music is not an adjective.
sound is a verb but music is not a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| sound | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| music | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
music is a hyponym of
sound; that is, music is a
word with a more specific, narrower meaning than
sound:
- sound: the subjective sensation of hearing something
- music: any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds
| sound (noun) | music (noun) |
|---|---|
| the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause | musical activity (singing or whistling etc.) |
| the subjective sensation of hearing something | punishment for one's actions |
| the audible part of a transmitted signal | any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds |
| (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language | (music) the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds) |
| the sudden occurrence of an audible event | an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner |
| a large ocean inlet or deep bay | |
| a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water | |
| mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium |
| sound (adjective) | music (adjective) |
|---|---|
| financially secure and safe | |
| in good condition; free from defect or damage or decay | |
| complete; thorough | |
| (of sleep) deep and complete | |
| in excellent physical condition | |
| exercising or showing good judgment | |
| free from moral defect | |
| vigorous or severe | |
| having legal efficacy or force | |
| logically valid |
| sound (verb) | music (verb) |
|---|---|
| measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line | |
| utter with vibrating vocal chords | |
| make a certain noise or sound | |
| cause to sound | |
| announce by means of a sound | |
| give off a certain sound or sounds | |
| appear in a certain way |
Words related to "sound"
- Bering Strait
- Bosphorus
- Bosporus
- Canakkale Bogazi
- Cook Strait
- Dardanelles
- East River
- Golden Gate
- Hellespont
- Kattegatt
- Korea Strait
- Korean Strait
- Long Island Sound
- Menai Strait
- North Channel
- Pas de Calais
- Puget Sound
- Queen Charlotte Sound
- Skagerak
- Skagerrak
- Solent
- Strait of Calais
- Strait of Dover
- Strait of Georgia
- Strait of Gibraltar
- Strait of Hormuz
- Strait of Magellan
- Strait of Malacca
- Strait of Messina
- Strait of Ormuz
- TV
- Torres Strait
- aesthesis
- announce
- appear
- articulate
- aspirate
- audio
- auditory communication
- auditory sensation
- babble
- bang
- beat
- beep
- bell
- birr
- blare
- bleep
- blow
- body of water
- bombilate
- bombilation
- bombinate
- bombination
- bong
- boom
- boom out
- bubble
- burble
- buzz
- cackel
- cause to be perceived
- channel
- chatter
- chime
- chink
- chirk
- chirp
- chirrup
- chorus
- chug
- clang
- clangor
- clangour
- clank
- claxon
- click
- click-clack
- clink
- clip-clop
- clippety-clop
- clop
- clopping
- clump
- clumping
- clunk
- clunking
- complete
- consonant
- crack
- crash
- cry
- deep
- denote
- dependable
- din
- ding
- dissonance
- dissonate
- drip
- dripping
- drone
- drum
- drum roll
- drumbeat
- dub
- echo
- effectual
- enounce
- enunciate
- esthesis
- euphony
- fathom
- fit
- footfall
- footstep
- gargle
- glide
- glug
- go
- gong
- good
- grumble
- guggle
- gurgle
- happening
- healthy
- heavy
- honk
- hum
- ingressive
- intelligent
- jangle
- jingle
- knell
- knock
- knocking
- language unit
- lap
- legal
- level-headed
- levelheaded
- linguistic unit
- look
- make noise
- measure
- mechanical phenomenon
- murmur
- murmuration
- murmuring
- music
- mussitation
- mutter
- muttering
- narrow
- natural event
- noise
- noisiness
- occurrence
- occurrent
- orinasal
- orinasal phone
- paradiddle
- pat
- patter
- peal
- pealing
- phone
- phoneme
- phonetics
- pierce
- ping
- pink
- pitter-patter
- play
- plunk
- pop
- popping
- prepare
- profound
- pronounce
- pure tone
- purr
- quack
- quantify
- quaver
- racket
- racketiness
- rap
- rataplan
- rattle
- reasonable
- reasoned
- resonate
- resound
- reverberate
- righteous
- ring
- ringing
- ripple
- roll
- rolling
- rub-a-dub
- rumble
- rustle
- safe
- say
- secure
- seem
- semivowel
- sensation
- sense datum
- sense experience
- sense impression
- sensible
- sigh
- silence
- sing
- skirl
- slosh
- slush
- snap
- snarl
- solid
- sonant
- song
- sound
- sound off
- sound out
- sound property
- sounder
- sounding
- soundness
- speak
- speech sound
- splash
- splat
- splosh
- squelch
- stable
- step
- strait
- strong
- strum
- substantial
- susurration
- susurrus
- swish
- swoosh
- swosh
- tap
- tapping
- telecasting
- television
- throbbing
- thrum
- thud
- thump
- thumping
- thunk
- tick
- ticking
- ticktack
- ticktock
- ting
- tink
- tinkle
- tintinnabulation
- toll
- tone
- toot
- tootle
- trample
- trampling
- trump
- twang
- tweet
- twirp
- ultrasound
- unbroken
- undamaged
- uninjured
- unison
- unsound
- utterance
- valid
- vibrate
- vibrato
- video
- vocalise
- vocalization
- vocalize
- voice
- voiced sound
- vowel
- vowel sound
- vroom
- wakeless
- water
- waver
- well-grounded
- whack
- whir
- whirr
- whirring
- whish
- whistle
- whistling
- whiz
- whizz
- wholesome
- zing
- zizz
Words related to "music"
- Bach
- Beethoven
- Brahms
- C
- C major
- C major scale
- Chopin
- Gilbert and Sullivan
- Hammond organ
- Handel
- Haydn
- M.M.
- Mozart
- Stravinsky
- Ta'ziyeh
- Wagner
- absolute music
- accelerando
- accompany
- activity
- adagio
- air
- allargando
- allegretto
- allegro
- alto
- andante
- antiphony
- arioso
- arrange
- atonal
- atonalistic
- audio CD
- audio compact disc
- auditory communication
- auditory sensation
- ballet
- bang out
- barrel organ
- beat
- beats per minute
- bell ringing
- bow
- bowed
- bpm
- brass family
- bugle
- calando
- cantabile
- carillon
- carillon playing
- carol
- chirp
- choir
- chord
- chorus
- chromatic
- churn out
- clarion
- classical
- compose
- composition
- con brio
- concerted music
- concertise
- concertize
- conduct
- conjunct
- contrapuntal
- copyrighted
- counterpoint
- crescendo
- dance music
- decreasing
- decrescendo
- dedication
- development
- diatonic
- diminished
- diminuendo
- direct
- disconnected
- disjunct
- dissonant
- dolce
- dominant
- double tongue
- dramatic
- drop
- drum
- electric organ
- electronic organ
- entr'acte
- euphony
- executant
- exposition
- expressive style
- fanfare
- fast
- feminine
- fermata
- fiddle
- first
- flat
- flatten
- flourish
- follow
- fretted
- fugally
- gamut
- glissando
- grind organ
- hand organ
- harmonise
- harmonize
- harmony
- harp
- hymn
- idea
- increasing
- inscription
- instrument
- instrumental music
- instrumentate
- interlude
- intermezzo
- intonation
- invert
- jazz
- key
- keynote
- larghetto
- largo
- lead
- leading tone
- legato
- ligature
- line
- lyric
- madrigal
- major
- masculine
- measured
- mediant
- medicine
- melodic line
- melodic phrase
- melodic theme
- melodise
- melodize
- melody
- mensurable
- mensural
- metronome marking
- minor
- minstrel
- modulate
- molto
- monody
- monophonic
- monophonic music
- monophony
- music
- music genre
- music of the spheres
- musical
- musical composition
- musical genre
- musical harmony
- musical notation
- musical scale
- musical style
- musical theme
- musical time
- musician
- musique concrete
- natural
- note value
- opus
- orchestrate
- organ
- overture
- pacing
- part music
- pedal
- penalisation
- penalization
- penalty
- percussion
- pianissimo
- piano
- piano music
- piece
- piece of music
- pipe
- pizzicato
- play
- play along
- plucked
- polyphonic
- polyphonic music
- polyphonous
- polyphony
- polytonalism
- polytonality
- pop
- popular
- popularism
- prelude
- preparation
- prepare
- prestissimo
- presto
- psalm
- punishment
- put
- pyrotechnics
- quality
- rag
- rallentando
- rap
- realise
- realize
- recapitulate
- recapitulation
- refrain
- register
- registration
- reharmonise
- reharmonize
- release
- repeat
- reprise
- reprize
- resolution
- rhapsody
- rit.
- ritardando
- ritenuto
- roulade
- scale
- scale of C major
- scamp
- score
- second
- section
- segno
- serial
- serial music
- serialism
- set
- set to music
- sforzando
- sharp
- sharpen
- sheet music
- sight-read
- sightread
- sightreader
- sing
- singing
- skirl
- slide
- slow
- slur
- smooth
- solmizate
- solo
- sound
- sound off
- soundboard
- sounding board
- staccato
- staff
- statement
- stave
- stop
- strain
- strike up
- style
- subdivision
- subdominant
- submediant
- subtonic
- suite
- supertonic
- swing
- swoop
- symphonise
- symphonize
- syncopate
- syncopation
- synthesiser
- synthesizer
- tempo
- tenor
- theme
- tie
- timber
- timbre
- time value
- tonal
- tone
- tone ending
- tongue
- tonic
- transcribe
- transpose
- transposition
- tremolo
- triple-tongue
- troll
- trumpet
- tucket
- tune
- tuning
- tweedle
- unfretted
- unison
- unkeyed
- unresolved
- value
- vibrato
- violin family
- vocal
- vocal music
- vocalizing
- whistling
- woodwind family
- world premiere
- write
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