sounder

CEFRB2

/ˈsaʊndɚ/

adjective · noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    More sensible, reliable, or healthy than something else.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    An instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.

Examples

  • A sounder is a device used to produce or detect various sounds.

  • The boat captain used a depth sounder to navigate the shallow bay.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
2
Synonyms
1

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. Something or someone who makes a sound.

  2. comparative form of sound: more sound

noun

Extra meaning

  1. Synonym of sting (“brief musical sequence in television etc.”).

More examples

In context

  • The sounder was used to measure the depth of the deep lake.

  • a telephone with an electronic sounder

  • It was not only that there were wild boars in it, whose sounders would at this season be furiously rooting about, nor that one of the surviving wolves might be slinking behind any tree, with pale eyes and slavering chops.

Synonyms

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Origin

adjective

From Middle English *soundere, from Old English ġesundra, from Proto-Germanic *sundizô, equivalent to sound + -er (comparative suffix).