Seemed vs Sounded - What's the difference?
seemed | sounded |
(seem)
(lb) To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.
* 1813 (14thc.), (Dante Alighieri), The Vision of Hell as translated by The Rev. H. F. Cary.
*:He, from his face removing the gross air, / Oft his left hand forth stretch'd, and seem'd alone / By that annoyance wearied.
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too..
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, title= (lb) To befit; to beseem.
:(Spenser)
(sound)
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.
As verbs the difference between seemed and sounded
is that seemed is (seem) while sounded is (sound).seemed
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Verb
(head)Statistics
*seem
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Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.}}
citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa”(season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993) , passage=So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.}}
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeDerived terms
* meseems * seeming * seeminglyStatistics
*sounded
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Verb
(head)sound
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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
