Sound vs Prime - What's the difference?
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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.
First in importance, degree, or rank.
First in time, order, or sequence
* Tennyson
* Milton
First in excellence, quality, or value.
(mathematics, lay) Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
(mathematics, technical) Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
(mathematics) Having its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.
Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
* Milton
(obsolete) Lecherous; lustful; lewd.
(Christianity, historical) One of the daily offices of prayer of the Western Church, associated with the early morning (typically 6 a.m.).
* Spenser
(obsolete) The early morning.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , I.vi:
The earliest stage of something.
* Hooker
* Waller
The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
* Eustace
* Dryden
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The chief or best individual or part.
* Jonathan Swift
(music) The first note or tone of a musical scale.
(fencing) The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
(algebra, number theory) A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
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, title= (card games) A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
(backgammon) Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.
The symbol
(chemistry, obsolete) Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.
An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
To prepare a mechanism for its main work.
To apply a coat of primer paint to.
(obsolete) To be renewed.
* Quarles
To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
(of a steam boiler) To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed.
To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to coach.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) To trim or prune.
(math) To mark with a prime mark.
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As a proper noun sound
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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
prime
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) prime, from (etyl) .Adjective
(-)- Our prime concern here is to keep the community safe.
- Both the English and French governments established prime meridians in their capitals.
- prime forests
- She was not the prime cause, but I myself.
- This is a prime location for a bookstore.
- Thirteen is a prime number.
- His starry helm, unbuckled, showed him prime / In manhood where youth ended.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* greatest, most important, main, primary, principal, top * excellent, top quality * earliest, first, original * (having no nontrivial factors) indivisible * (dividing a factor of any product it divides) *Noun
(en noun)- Early and late it rung, at evening and at prime .
- They all as glad, as birdes of ioyous Prime
- in the very prime of the world
- Hope waits upon the flowery prime .
- cut off in their prime
- the prime of youth
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- Once upon a time you dressed so fine. You threw the bums a dime in your prime , didn’t you?
- Give him always of the prime .
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Synonyms
* bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, peak * (chief or best individual or part) choice, prize, quality, select * prime number (when an integer)Derived terms
(algebra) * cousin prime * primality * prime constellation * prime number * sexy prime * twin primeEtymology 2
Origin uncertain; perhaps related to primage.Verb
(prim)- You'll have to press this button twice to prime the fuel pump.
- I need to prime these handrails before we can apply the finish coat.
- Night's bashful empress, though she often wane, / As oft repeats her darkness, primes again.
- to prime a witness
- The boys are primed for mischief.
- (Thackeray)
- to prime trees