Word Meanings - RESONANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A prolongation or increase of any sound, eithar by reflection, as in a cavern or apartment the walls of which are not distant enough to return a distinct echo, or by the production of vibrations in other bodies, as a sounding-board, or the bodies
Additional info about word: RESONANCE
A prolongation or increase of any sound, eithar by reflection, as in a cavern or apartment the walls of which are not distant enough to return a distinct echo, or by the production of vibrations in other bodies, as a sounding-board, or the bodies of musical instruments. Pulmonary resonance , the sound heard on percussing over the lungs. -- Vocal resonance , the sound transmitted to the ear when auscultation is made while the patient is speaking. (more info) 1. The act of resounding; the quality or state of being resonant.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RESONANCE)
- Crash
- Jar
- clang
- clash
- resonance
- Echo
- Reverberation
- repetition
- imitation
- answer
- Intonation
- Melody
- accentuation
- ring
- Sound
- Resonance
- audibility
- noise
- report
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RESONANCE)
Related words: (words related to RESONANCE)
- MISREPORT
To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of. Locke. - REVERBERATION
The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reƫchoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame - AUDIBILITY
The quality of being audible; power of being heard; audible capacity. - SUPPRESSOR
One who suppresses. - ANSWER
1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation. 2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to ; to - SOUNDLY
In a sound manner. - CRASH
1. A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of manu things falling and breaking at once. The wreck of matter and the crash of worlds. Addison. 2. Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise. - SOUNDNESS
The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude. - CLANGOR
A sharp, harsh, ringing sound. Dryden. - SOUNDING BALLOON
An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aƫronautic purposes. - SOUND-BOARD
A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton. - SUPPRESSION
Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion. Quain. (more info) 1. The act of suppressing, - CLASH
1. To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together. 2. To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere. However some of his interests might clash with those of the chief adjacent - SOUND
1. To causse to make a noise; to play on; as, to sound a trumpet or a horn. A bagpipe well could he play and soun . Chaucer. 2. To cause to exit as a sound; as, to sound a note with the voice, or on an instrument. 3. To order, direct, indicate, - REPETITIONAL; REPETITIONARY
Of the nature of, or containing, repetition. - CLASH GEAR
A change-speed gear in which the gears are changed by sliding endwise. - REPETITIONER
One who repeats. - MISREPRESENTATION
Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives. Sydney Smith. Note: In popular use, this word often conveys the idea of intentional - REPORTAGE
SAme as Report. - ANSWERLESS
Having no answer, or impossible to be answered. Byron. - HIGH-SOUNDING
Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles. - RESOUND
resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame - SOUNDER
One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound. - INSUPPRESSIBLE
That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv. - SOUNDLESS
Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak. - MISSOUND
To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall. - INSUPPRESSIVE
Insuppressible. "The insuppressive mettle of our spirits." Shak. - DELIMITATION
The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone. - UNANSWERABLE
Not answerable; irrefutable; conclusive; decisive; as, he have an unanswerable argument. -- Un*an"swer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*an"swer*a*bly, adv. - ILLIMITATION
State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall.