son | (noun) a male human offspring | Synonyms: boy |
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sonant | (adjective) produced with vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: soft, voiced |
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(noun) a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords | Synonyms: voiced sound |
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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songful | (adjective) richly melodious | Synonyms: canorous |
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songfulness | (noun) the property of being suitable for singing | Synonyms: lyricality, lyricism |
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songlike | (adjective) having a melody (as distinguished from recitative) | Synonyms: ariose |
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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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sonic | (adjective) (of speed) having or caused by speed approximately equal to that of sound in air at sea level | Synonyms: transonic |
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(adjective) relating to audible sound | - |
sonnet | (noun) a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme | - |
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(verb) compose a sonnet | - |
(verb) praise in a sonnet | - |
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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sonorous | (adjective) full and loud and deep | Synonyms: heavy |
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sonorously | (adverb) in a sonorous manner | Synonyms: rotundly |
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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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sonsie | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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sonsy | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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