son | (noun) a male human offspring | Synonyms: boy |
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sonant | (noun) a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords | Synonyms: voiced sound |
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sonar | (noun) a measuring instrument that sends out an acoustic pulse in water and measures distances in terms of the time for the echo of the pulse to return | Synonyms: asdic, echo sounder |
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sonata | (noun) a musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms | - |
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sonatina | (noun) a short and simple sonata | - |
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sone | (noun) a unit of perceived loudness equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz tone at 40 dB above threshold | - |
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song | (noun) the act of singing | Synonyms: strain |
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(noun) a short musical composition with words | Synonyms: vocal |
(noun) the characteristic sound produced by a bird | Synonyms: birdcall, birdsong, call |
(noun) a distinctive or characteristic sound | - |
(noun) a very small sum | - |
songbird | (noun) any bird having a musical call | Synonyms: songster |
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songbook | (noun) a book containing a collection of songs | - |
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songfulness | (noun) the property of being suitable for singing | Synonyms: lyricality, lyricism |
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songster | (noun) any bird having a musical call | Synonyms: songbird |
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(noun) a person who sings with skill | - |
(noun) a composer of words or music for popular songs | Synonyms: ballad maker, songwriter |
songstress | (noun) a woman songster (especially of popular songs) | - |
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songwriter | (noun) a composer of words or music for popular songs | Synonyms: ballad maker, songster |
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sonnet | (noun) a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme | - |
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sonneteer | (noun) a poet who writes sonnets | - |
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sonny | (noun) a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) | Synonyms: cub, lad, laddie, sonny boy |
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sonogram | (noun) an image of a structure that is produced by ultrasonography (reflections of high-frequency sound waves); used to observe fetal growth or to study bodily organs | Synonyms: echogram |
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sonograph | (noun) an instrument that uses the differential transmission and reflection of ultrasonic waves in order to provide an image of a bodily organ | - |
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sonography | (noun) using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal growth or study bodily organs | Synonyms: echography, ultrasonography, ultrasound |
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sonometer | (noun) an instrument used to measure the sensitivity of hearing | Synonyms: audiometer |
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sonority | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness, vibrancy |
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sonorousness | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonority, vibrancy |
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