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Sound Effect

Definition: Sound Effect

Sound Effect

Noun

1. An effect that imitates a sound called for in the script of a play.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Sound Effect

Specialty definitions using "sound effect": editing-machine operator, editor, soundSOUND CUTTER. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Sound Effect

DomainTitle

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Sound Effect".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Foreboding cinematic sound effect signified by clock chiming and storm brewing.Dramatic falling sound effect.
Laser shooting sound effect.Digital sound effect for shutting down.
Science fiction radio turner sound effect.Laser gunshot sound effect.
Eerie, UFO-landing sound effect.Laser gunshot sound effect.
Electronic bubble-popping sound effect.Science fiction "computer malfunction" sound effect.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sound Effect

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sound effect

133

wav sound effect

32

sound effect wavs

28

sound effect wav file

20

sound effect download

19

heart beat sound effect

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Sound Effect

Language Translations for "sound effect"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

geruisspoor (buzz track, sound effect track). (various references)

   

French

  

piste effets acoustiques spéciaux (sound effect track). (various references)

   

German

  

Geraeuschspur (buzz track, sound effect track, sound effects), Effektspur (buzz track, sound effect track). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ηχητικό εφέ. (various references)

   

Italian

  

pista a effetti acustici speciali (buzz track, sound effect track). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

効果音 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

"うかお". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oundsay effectay

   

Russian 

  

шумовой эффект. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ljudeffekt (soundeffect). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Sound Effect

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-f-f-n-o-s-t-u"

-2 letters: duecentos.

-3 letters: confused, confuted, confutes, contused, duecento, offences, softened.

-4 letters: cenotes, cestode, coffees, confuse, confute, contuse, counted, cutoffs, defects, defocus, defunct, denotes, descent, docents, dustoff, effects, effused, encodes, escoted, focused, fondest, fondues, offcuts, offence, offends, offense, outseen, scented, scoffed, scouted, scuffed, seconde, sendoff, snouted, snuffed, stuffed, toffees.

-5 letters: cenote, censed, centos, codens, coffee, contes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Sound Effect


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6F 75 6E 64      45 66 66 65 63 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 00100000 01000101 01100110 01100110 01100101 01100011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#111 &#117 &#110 &#100 &#32 &#69 &#102 &#102 &#101 &#99 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 0075 006E 0064      0045 0066 0066 0065 0063 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53818780702397272716986

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Sounds
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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