Sounder

Definition

sound 1 /saƱnd/ n ၁။ (က) [U] အသံ။ Sound travels more slowly than light. (ခ) [C] အသံ။ ျမည္သံ။ 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] (သြင္းထားေသာ)အသံ။ (ေရဒီယို၊ ႐ုပ္ျမင္သံၾကားမွ လႊင့္ေသာ)အသံ။ a sound engineer ❍ When was sound-recording invented? ❍ Turn the sound down—the neighbours will complain. ၃။ [U] ၾကားႏိုင္ ေလာက္ေသာ အကြာအေဝး။ တစ္ေခၚ။ Their house is within (the) sound of the sea. v ၁။ (က) ထင္ရသည္။ 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… … ထင္ရသည္။ …ဟု သေဘာရသည္။ 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. ❍ FEEL 1 ၂။ (က) (တူရိယာ၊ ေခါင္းေလာင္း စသည္) တီးသည္။ မႈတ္သည္။ ထိုးသည္။ ေခါက္သည္။ sound a trumpet/one's horn ❍ The bell is sounded every hour. (ခ) ထိုးသည္။ ေခါက္သည္။ မႈတ္သည္။ The bell sounded for the end of the lesson. ၃။ အခ်က္ေပးသံျပဳသည္။ အခ်က္ ေပးသည္။ sound the alarm (eg by ringing a bell) ❍ sound the retreat (eg by blowing a BUGLE). ၄။ ( techn ) (esp passive) အသံထြက္သည္။ The ‘b’ in ‘dumb’ is not sounded. ❏ by the sound of it [ IDM ] ၾကည့္ရတာေတာ့။ ၾကားရပံု အရေတာ့။ They had a wonderful time by the sound of it. ❏ like, etc the sound of one's own voice [ IDM ] ( derog ) ဒိုင္ခံေျပာသည္။ ပါးစပ္အျမႇဳပ္ထေအာင္ေျပာသည္။ She's much too fond of the sound of her own voice. ❏ sound barrier ( also sonic barrier) n [sing] အသံ ေျပးႏႈန္းကို ေလယာဥ္ပ်ံသန္းမႈက ခ်ဥ္းကပ္မိသည့္အခါ ႀကံဳရသည့္ အဟန္႔အတား။ အသံႏႈန္းတံတိုင္း။ break the sound barrier (ie move faster than the speed of sound). ❏ sound bite n (ေရဒီယို၊ ႐ုပ္ျမင္သံၾကား သတင္းထုတ္လႊင့္စဥ္ စကၠန္႔ပိုင္း) ၾကားျဖတ္ကိုးကားခ်က္။ a 30- second sound bite. ❏ sound effect n (esp pl ) (႐ုပ္ရွင္၊ ျပဇာတ္ စသည္တြင္ စကားသံႏွင့္ဂီတသံမွအပျဖစ္ေသာ) အသံဖန္တီးခ်က္။ Taping your own sound effects is an interesting part of video movie making. ❏ -sounding (forming compound adjs ) အသံ …ျမည္ေသာ (သို႔) …ပံုေပါက္ေသာ။ loud-sounding pop music ❍ a very grand-sounding name. ❏ sounding-board n တီးေခါက္ၾကည့္စရာ။ 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 အသံမျမည္ေသာ။ တိတ္ဆိတ္ေသာ။ soundless footsteps. ေျခသံလံုလံုလွမ္းသည့္ ေျခလွမ္း။ soundlessly adv ❏ sound off (about/against sth) [ PHRV ] ( infml derog ) တက်ည္က်ည္ေျပာသည္။ He's always sounding off about falling standards in education. ❏ sound wave n အသံလိႈင္း။ sound 2 /saƱnd/ adj ( -er, -est ) ၁။ အေကာင္းပကတိ။ ႀကံ႕ခိုင္ေသာ။ 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။ ေၾကာင္းက်ဳိးခိုင္လံုေသာ။ ေျခေျချမစ္ျမစ္ရိွေသာ။ အားထား ယံုၾကည္ေလာက္ေသာ။ ယုတၱိတန္ေသာ။ a sound argument/investment ❍ sound advice ❍ Her policies are environmentally sound. Compare UNSOUND ၂ ၃။ ပယ္ပယ္နယ္နယ္။ give sb a sound thrashing. ၄။ ပိုင္ႏိုင္ ေသာ။ ခိုင္လံုေသာ။ a very sound tennis player ❍ a sound piece of writing. ၅။ ႏွစ္ႏွစ္ၿခိဳက္ၿခိဳက္။ I'm usually a sound sleeper. ❍ a sound night's sleep. v ေရအနက္ကို တိုင္းသည္၊ ေထာက္သည္။ ေရစမ္းခ်သည္။ adv ေကာင္းစြာ။ ႏွစ္ႏွစ္ၿခိဳက္ၿခိဳက္။ be/fall sound asleep. ❏ (as) sound as a bell [ IDM ] ေဒါင္ေဒါင္ျမည္။ The doctor said I was as sound as a bell. ❏ soundings n [pl] ၁။ တီးေခါက္ၾကည့္ျခင္း။ take soundings (on sth) ❍ What do your soundings show? ၂။ ေရစမ္းခ်ျခင္း။ underwater soundings. ❏ soundly adv ခိုင္ခိုင္လံုလံု။ ပယ္ပယ္နယ္နယ္။ a soundly based argument ❍ be soundly beaten at chess ❍ sleep soundly. ❏ soundness n [U] ပိုင္ႏိုင္မႈ။ ခိုင္မာမႈ။ soundness of judgement ❍ the soundness of the foundations. ❏ sound sb out (about/on sth) [ PHRV ] တီးေခါက္ၾကည့္ သည္။ She has already sounded out her senior colleagues about her proposals for the department. sound 3 /saƱnd/ n ေရလက္ၾကား။ Plymouth Sound.

Examples

1. My car is making strange clicking sounds.
2. [sound of] : The sound of voices/laughter/footsteps
3. [not make a sound] : Laura didn’t make a sound as she left the room.
4. The aircraft could travel faster than the speed of sound.
5. Something was interfering with the sound during the broadcast.
6. Turn the sound up a bit – I can’t hear.
7. He plays an original jazz-gospel sound.
8. Long Island Sound