Iron vs Sound - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) A common, inexpensive metal, often black in color, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel.
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(uncountable, countable, metallurgy) Any material, not a steel, predominantly made of elemental iron.
(countable) A tool or appliance made of metal, which is heated and then used to transfer heat to something else; most often a thick piece of metal fitted with a handle and having a flat, roughly triangular bottom, which is heated and used to press wrinkles from clothing, and now usually containing an electrical heating apparatus.
Shackles.
(slang) A handgun.
(uncountable) A dark shade of the colour/color silver.
A male homosexual.
(golf) A golf club used for middle-distance shots.
(uncountable) Great strength or power.
(not comparable) Made of the metal iron.
(figuratively) Strong (as of will), inflexible.
To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases.
(archaic) To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.
* Sir Walter Scott
To furnish or arm with iron.
Healthy.
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Complete, solid, or secure.
* Chapman
(mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
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(British, slang) Good.
(of sleep) Quiet]] and deep.
Heavy; laid on with force.
Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
(British, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:The warlike sound / Of trumpets loud and clarions.
A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
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*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
(lb) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc
Noise without meaning; empty noise.
*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:Sense and not sound must be the principle.
To produce a sound.
(copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
* Shakespeare
To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
* Bible, 1 Thessalonians i. 8
(legal) Often with "in"; to arise or to be recognizable as arising within a particular area of law.
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To cause to produce a sound.
(phonetics) To pronounce a vowel or a consonant.
(geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean.
* Camden
The air bladder of a fish.
A cuttlefish.
dive downwards, used of a whale.
To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.
* Dryden
* Addison
test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
(medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound, or by auscultation or percussion.
Iron is a synonym of sound.
As a noun iron
is pencil.As a proper noun sound is
the strait that separates zealand (an island of denmark) from scania (part of sweden); also sometimes called by the danish name,.iron
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(wikipedia iron)Noun
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* (English Citations of "iron")Synonyms
* (metallic chemical element) ferrum * (tool for pressing clothing) flatiron (old-fashioned), smoothing iron (old-fashioned) * (shackles) shackles * (homosexual) poof, queer * (strength or power) energy, forceHypernyms
* (metallic chemical element) chemical element, metal; atom * (tool for pressing clothing) tool, mechanical device * (shackles) restraint * (handgun) weapon * (dark shade of silver) colour, color; shade; silver * (strength or power) force, might, energyHyponyms
* (shackles) leg irons * (golf club) driving iron, long iron, short iron, , * (strength or power) ironmanMeronyms
* (parts or members of metallic chemical element) electron, neutron, protonHolonyms
* (metallic chemical element) molecule (sometimes)Coordinate terms
* (tool for pressing clothing) mangleDerived terms
* angle iron * arsenical iron * bar iron * barking iron * beak-iron * beck-iron * bick-iron * big iron * Bessemer iron * bog iron * bog iron ore * boom-iron * box iron * branding iron * cast iron * cast-iron * chromate of iron * chrome iron * chrome iron ore * chromic iron * climbing iron * copper-iron * corrugated iron * cramp-iron * crimping iron * crisping iron * curling iron * ductile iron * electric iron * fire-irons * flatiron * fresh off the irons * galvanised iron * galvanized iron * gamma-iron * grappling iron * gray iron * have too many irons in the fire * in iron * in irons * Iron Age * iron alum * ironbark * iron-bind * iron-binding * iron-blue * iron-blue fly * iron-bound * iron buff * iron carbide * iron-cased * iron cement * ironclad * iron-clad * iron chloride * iron clay * iron cloth * Iron Curtain * iron curtain * iron deficiency * iron-deficient * ironed * iron fall * iron flint * iron-founder * iron-founding * iron-foundry * iron-free * iron gang * iron glance * iron grass * iron-gray * iron-grey * iron-handed * iron-hard * iron hat * iron-headed * ironheads * ironheart * iron-hearted * iron hoof * iron horse * iron hydroxide * iron iodide * ironish * ironless * iron liquor * iron loss * iron maid * iron maiden * iron-maker * iron-making * ironman * iron-manganese tungstate * iron mask * ironmaster * iron meteorite * iron mine * iron-miner * iron-mining * iron mold * iron mould * ironmonger * iron monticellite * iron mountain * ironness * iron ore * iron oxide * iron pan * iron period * iron phosphate * iron-plated * iron play * iron player * iron protoxide * iron pyrites * iron ration * iron salt * iron sand * iron saw * iron scale * iron-shod * ironshot, iron-shot * iron-sick * Ironside * Ironsides * iron-sided * iron shrub * iron smelting * ironsmith * iron sponge * iron stain * iron stand * ironstone * iron strap * iron sulfate * iron sulphate * iron sulfide * iron sulphide * iron-sulfur cluster * iron-sulphur cluster * iron-tree * iron tribromide * iron trichloride * iron tungstate * iron virgin * ironware * ironweed * ironwood * ironwork * ironwort * irony * iron yellow * * * * * Italian iron * jagging iron * leg-iron * midiron * nickel-iron * pig iron * pinking iron * pump iron * put every iron in the fire * red iron oxide * sad-iron * scrap iron * searing-iron * sheet iron * shooting-iron * silicon iron * smoothing iron * snarling-iron * soldering iron * sponge iron * steam iron * stirrup-iron * strike while the iron is hot * sulfate of iron * sulphate of iron * tire iron * tyre iron * toasting-iron * toggle-iron * to have * too many irons in the fire * tow-iron * waffle iron * wear iron * white iron * wrought iron * zinc ironSee also
* cementite * colcothar * ferrate * ferratin * ferredoxin * ferretto * ferrimagnetism * ferrite * ferritin * ferronerie * ferronnerie * * * Flores martis * haem * heme * haematite * hematite * haemochromatosis * hemochromatosis * magnetite * molysite * nife * Prussian blue * rust * steel * synthetic maghemite * wustite *References
Adjective
(en adjective)- She had an iron will.
- He held on with an iron grip.
- an iron constitution
Synonyms
* adamant, adamantine, brassboundHypernyms
* (made of the metal iron) metal, metallicHyponyms
* (made of the metal iron) wrought-ironSee also
* ferrous, ferricDerived terms
* iron cap * iron chink * Iron Cross * Iron Duke * iron-faced * iron-fisted * Iron Guard * iron gum * iron gum tree * iron hand * iron horse * iron jubilee * iron law * ironly * iron lung * iron mike * iron oak * iron paper * iron sleep * iron slumber * iron walls * iron wedding * iron-willed * iron-witted * iron-wordedVerb
(en verb)- Ironed like a malefactor.
- to iron a wagon
Synonyms
* (to pass an iron over) pressCoordinate terms
* (to pass an iron over) mangleDescendants
* Japanese:Derived terms
* ironer * ironing * iron-on * iron out * non-iron * unironedsound
English
Alternative forms
* soune (obsolete), sowne (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) sound, sund, isund, . See (l).Adjective
(er)- He was safe and sound .
- In horse management a sound horse is one with no health problems that might affect its suitability for its intended work.
- Fred assured me the floorboards were sound .
- The brasswork here, how rich it is in beams, / And how, besides, it makes the whole house sound .
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
- "How are you?" - "I'm sound ."
- That's a sound track you're playing.
- Her sleep was sound .
- a sound beating
- a sound title to land
Hypernyms
* (in logic) validDerived terms
* safe and sound * sound as a bell * soundlyInterjection
(en interjection)- "I found my jacket." - "Sound ."
Etymology 2
* Noun: from (etyl) sownde, alteration of sowne, from (etyl) sun, soun, (etyl) son, from accusative of (etyl) sonus. * Verb: from (etyl) sownden, sounen, from (etyl) suner, (etyl) soner (modern sonner ), from (etyl) * The euphonic -d appears in the fifteenth century. (wikipedia sound)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* See alsoTroponyms
* noise * quiet * silenceSee also
* audibleVerb
(en verb)- When the horn sounds , take cover.
- He sounded good when we last spoke.
- That story sounds like a pack of lies!
- How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues!
- From you sounded out the word of the Lord.
- He sounds the instrument.
- The "e" in "house" isn't sounded .
Synonyms
* (to make noise)echo, reecho, resonate * See alsoDerived terms
* empty vessels make the most sound * infrasound * instantaneous sound pressure * missound * outsound * second sound * soundage * sound-alike * sound alphabet * sound and light/sound-and-light show * sound barrier * sound bite/soundbite * sound bow * sound box * sound camera * sound card * sounded * sound effect * sound energy * sound engineer * sound engineering * sounder * soundex * sound film * sound hole * sounding board * sound law * soundless * sound like * sound man/soundman * sound off * sound out * sound pollution * sound pressure * sound projection * soundproof/sound-proof * sound recording * sound reproduction * soundscape * sound spectrum * sound stage/soundstage * sound structure * sound system * sound track/soundtrack * sound truck * sound wave * speech sound * speed of sound * surround-sound/surround sound * third heart sound * third sound * ultrasound * unsound * voiced soundEtymology 3
From (etyl) sound, sund, from (etyl) . Related to (l).Noun
(en noun)- Puget Sound'''; Owen '''Sound
- The Sound of Denmark, where ships pay toll.
- Cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.
- (Ainsworth)
Etymology 4
(etyl) . More atVerb
(en verb)- The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive.
- When I sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal.
- I was in jest, / And by that offer meant to sound your breast.
- I've sounded my Numidians man by man.
- Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope.
- to sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra