the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause | an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit |
the subjective sensation of hearing something | a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games |
the audible part of a transmitted signal | the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience |
(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language | a loud and disturbing noise |
the sudden occurrence of an audible event | |
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 | |