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soundly

/ˈsaʊndli/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈsaʊndli/
soundly
Syllables
2 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Short oo vowel
Ending
Final y vowel sound

soun - dly -> soundly

Myanmar meaning

(adv) ကျမ္မာစွာ။

Full entry

sound1 /saƱnd/ n

၁။ (က) [U] အသံ။
Sound travels more slowly than light.
(ခ) [C] အသံ။ မြည်သံ။ အသံဗလံ။ the sound of the wind/the sea/a car/voices/breaking glass ❍ the sound of music ❍ vowel sounds (eg /u:, ʌ, ǝ/ ) ❍ I heard a strange sound outside. ❍ He crept upstairs without a sound.
၂။ [U] (သွင်းထားသော)အသံ။ (ရေဒီယို၊ ရုပ်မြင်သံကြားမှ လွှင့်သော)အသံ။ a sound engineer ❍ When was sound-recording invented? ❍ Turn the sound down—the neighbours will complain.
၃။ [U] ကြားနိုင် လောက်သော အကွာအဝေး။ တစ်ခေါ်။ Their house is within (the) sound of the sea.
v
၁။ (က) ထင်ရသည်။ That music sounds beautiful. ❍ His voice sounded hoarse. ❍ His explanation sounds reasonable. ❍ She sounds just the person we need for the job.
(ခ) ~ (to sb) as if… / as though… / like… … ထင်ရသည်။ …ဟု သဘောရသည်။ I hope I don't sound as if I'm criticizing you. ❍ Your cough sounds as though it's getting worse. ❍ It sounds to me like you need a holiday. ❍ FEEL1
၂။ (က) (တူရိယာ၊ ခေါင်းလောင်း စသည်) တီးသည်။ မှုတ်သည်။ ထိုးသည်။ ခေါက်သည်။ sound a trumpet/one's horn ❍ The bell is sounded every hour.
(ခ) ထိုးသည်။ ခေါက်သည်။ မှုတ်သည်။ The bell sounded for the end of the lesson.
၃။ အချက်ပေးသံပြုသည်။ အချက် ပေးသည်။ sound the alarm (eg by ringing a bell) ❍ sound the retreat (eg by blowing a BUGLE).
၄။ (techn ) (esp passive) အသံထွက်သည်။ The ‘b’ in ‘dumb’ is not sounded.
❏ by the sound of it [IDM ] ကြည့်ရတာတော့။ ကြားရပုံ အရတော့။ They had a wonderful time by the sound of it.
❏ like, etc the sound of one's own voice [IDM ] (derog ) ဒိုင်ခံပြောသည်။ ပါးစပ်အမြှုပ်ထအောင်ပြောသည်။ She's much too fond of the sound of her own voice.
❏ sound barrier ( also sonic barrier) n [sing] အသံ ပြေးနှုန်းကို လေယာဉ်ပျံသန်းမှုက ချဉ်းကပ်မိသည့်အခါ ကြုံရသည့် အဟန့်အတား။ အသံနှုန်းတံတိုင်း။ break the sound barrier (ie move faster than the speed of sound).
❏ sound bite n (ရေဒီယို၊ ရုပ်မြင်သံကြား သတင်းထုတ်လွှင့်စဉ် စက္ကန့်ပိုင်း) ကြားဖြတ်ကိုးကားချက်။ a 30- second sound bite.
❏ sound effect n (esp pl ) (ရုပ်ရှင်၊ ပြဇာတ် စသည်တွင် စကားသံနှင့်ဂီတသံမှအပဖြစ်သော) အသံဖန်တီးချက်။ Taping your own sound effects is an interesting part of video movie making.
❏ -sounding (forming compound adjs ) အသံ …မြည်သော (သို့) …ပုံပေါက်သော။ loud-sounding pop music ❍ a very grand-sounding name.
❏ sounding-board n တီးခေါက်ကြည့်စရာ။ The magazine became a sounding-board for its editor's political beliefs. ❍ It's useful to have a colleague to act as a sounding-board before presenting ideas at meetings.
❏ soundless adj အသံမမြည်သော။ တိတ်ဆိတ်သော။ soundless footsteps. ခြေသံလုံလုံလှမ်းသည့် ခြေလှမ်း။ soundlessly adv
❏ sound off (about/against sth) [PHRV ] (infml derog ) တကျည်ကျည်ပြောသည်။ He's always sounding off about falling standards in education.
❏ sound wave n အသံလှိုင်း။

sound2 /saƱnd/ adj (-er, -est )

၁။ အကောင်းပကတိ။ ကြံ့ခိုင်သော။ sound teeth ❍ a sound constitution ❍ of sound mind (ie not mentally ill) ❍ a house built on sound foundations ❍ We arrived home safe and sound. Compare UNSOUND ၁
၂။ ကြောင်းကျိုးခိုင်လုံသော။ ခြေခြေမြစ်မြစ်ရှိသော။ အားထား ယုံကြည်လောက်သော။ ယုတ္တိတန်သော။ a sound argument/investment ❍ sound advice ❍ Her policies are environmentally sound. Compare UNSOUND ၂
၃။ ပယ်ပယ်နယ်နယ်။ give sb a sound thrashing.
၄။ ပိုင်နိုင် သော။ ခိုင်လုံသော။ a very sound tennis player ❍ a sound piece of writing.
၅။ နှစ်နှစ်ခြိုက်ခြိုက်။ I'm usually a sound sleeper. ❍ a sound night's sleep.
v ရေအနက်ကို တိုင်းသည်၊ ထောက်သည်။ ရေစမ်းချသည်။
adv ကောင်းစွာ။ နှစ်နှစ်ခြိုက်ခြိုက်။ be/fall sound asleep.
❏ (as) sound as a bell [IDM ] ဒေါင်ဒေါင်မြည်။ The doctor said I was as sound as a bell.
❏ soundings n [pl]
၁။ တီးခေါက်ကြည့်ခြင်း။ take soundings (on sth) ❍ What do your soundings show?
၂။ ရေစမ်းချခြင်း။ underwater soundings.
❏ soundly adv ခိုင်ခိုင်လုံလုံ။ ပယ်ပယ်နယ်နယ်။
a soundly based argument ❍ be soundly beaten at chess ❍ sleep soundly.
❏ soundness n [U] ပိုင်နိုင်မှု။ ခိုင်မာမှု။ soundness of judgement ❍ the soundness of the foundations.
❏ sound sb out (about/on sth) [PHRV ] တီးခေါက်ကြည့် သည်။ She has already sounded out her senior colleagues about her proposals for the department.

sound3 /saƱnd/ n

ရေလက်ကြား။
Plymouth Sound.

More examples
  • My car is making strange clicking sounds.
  • [sound of] : The sound of voices/laughter/footsteps
  • [not make a sound] : Laura didn’t make a sound as she left the room.
  • The aircraft could travel faster than the speed of sound.
  • Something was interfering with the sound during the broadcast.
  • Turn the sound up a bit – I can’t hear.
  • He plays an original jazz-gospel sound.
  • Long Island Sound
Synonyms
noise, resonance, hum, echo, thud, reverberation, crash, jingle, swish, clatter, accent, accepted, accurate, advertise, advisable, alive and kicking, all there, all-encompassing, announce, appear, appear to be, authoritative, babble, bang, bark, blare, blow, boom, broadcast, burst, buzz, cackle, call, canonical, channel, chatter, clack, clang, clank, clap, clink, cogent, commonsensical, complete, comprehensive, consequent, convincing, cool, correct, creak, crunch, declare, deep, dependable, detonate, din, effectual, emit, encyclopedic, entire, established, exact, explode, express, fair, faithful, faultless, firm, fit, fjord, flawless, fly, go, go off, good, got it together, hale, hanging together, hard, harmony, healthy, hearty, holding together, holding up, holding up in wash, holding water, impeccable, in the pink, inlet, intact, intellectual, intonation, jabber, jangle, jar, judicious, just, kosher, legal, legit, levelheaded, logical, look, loudness, loyal, melody, moan, modulation, murmur, music, normal, note, orthodox, patter, perfect, pitch, play, precise, proclaim, produce noise, profound, proper, proven, prudent, racket, rational, rattle, reasonable, received, recognized, reflect, reliable, report, reputable, resonate, resound, responsible, reverberate, right, right as rain, right-minded, right-thinking, rigorous, ring, ring out, ringing, roar, robust, rumble, safe, sanctioned, sane, satisfactory, satisfying, secure, seem, sensible, severe, shout, shriek
Antonyms
be real, be silent, broken, cacophony, careless, corrupt, damaged, defective, dishonest, disloyal, distrusted, excited, false, flawed, foolish, half-hearted, ignorant, illogical, imperfect, imprecise, improper, inaccurate, inappropriate, incomplete, incorrect, inexact, infirm, irrational, irresponsible, part, partial, praise, questionable, quiet, refused, rejected, senseless, sick, silence, soft, superficial, unacceptable, unbelievable, uncertain, undependable, unfathomable, unfinished, unfit, unhealthy, unrealistic, unreasonable, unreliable, unsound, unstable, unsuitable, unsuited, untrustworthy, unwise, vulnerable, weak, wobbly, wrong
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noiseresonancehumechothudreverberationcrashjingleswishclatteraccentacceptedaccurateadvertiseadvisablealive and kickingall thereall-encompassingannounceappearappear to beauthoritativebabblebangbarkblareblowboom
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