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Definition: Sound Out |
Sound OutVerb1. Speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?". 2. Try to learn someone's opinions and intentions; "I have to sound out the new professor". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Sound OutSynonyms: articulate (v), check out (v), enounce (v), enunciate (v), feel out (v), pronounce (v), say (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Experiment | Grope; feel one's way, grope for one's way; fumble, t_tonner, aller _ t_tons, put out a feeler, throw out a feeler; send up a trial balloon, send up a pilot balloon; see how the land lies, get the lay of the land, test the waters, feel out, sound out, take the pulse, see, check, check out, see how the wind blows; consult the barometer; feel the pulse; fish for, bob for; cast for, beat about for; angle, trawl, cast one's net, beat the bushes. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sound Out |
| English words defined with "sound out": articulate ♦ check out ♦ enounce, enunciate ♦ feel out ♦ pronounce ♦ say. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sound out": Hunt's-up ♦ O. (references) |
Expression using "sound out": sound out smb.. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "sound out"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | проучвам (bottom, examine, explore, inspect, investigate, probe, prospect, quarry, read up, research, scout, see about, see into, study, survey, turn over, vet), изяснявам (clarify, clear, crystallize, elucidate, enucleate, make understand, ravel, talk out, translate, unkennel, unscramble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 試探 (to feel out, to probe, to sound out, to try out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | tâter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | sondieren (canvass, explore, probe, probing, sounding, spy out, to take a sounding), untersuchen (analyse, analyze, check, enquire into, examine, explore, go over, inquire into, investigate, look into, pick over, pick through, probe, research, scan, scrutinize, see into, study, survey, test, to analyse, to analyzeUS, to determine, to examine, to explore, to inspect, verify), herausfinden (discover, find out, find smb.'s way out, get on to, isolate, isolation, pick out, search out, seek out, sift out, to find out, to spot, trace), herausbekommen (figure out, find out, get back, get out, glean, oust, pick up, to get out, work out), aushorchen (listen, sound a person, to sound a person), ausfragen (grill, interrogate, question, quiz), abtasten (feel, Frisk, palpate, read off, sample, sampling, scan, sense, size up, strobe, suss out, to read off, to sense). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לעמו" על טיבו, לרמוז (allude, become intimate, hint, imply, lead, mention, record, suggest, tip the wink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | menjajaki (fathom, plumb, probe, take soundings), mengajuk (observe, surable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | sondare (Plumb, probe, sound), tastare (feel, finger, fingering, grope, spy out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 人の意向'"たって見る (to sound out a person's thoughts), 探る (to look for, to search, to sound out), 探る (to look for, to search, to sound out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひとのい"う'あたってみる (to sound out a person's thoughts), さぐる (to look for, to search, to sound out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oundsay outay ağzını aramak (fish for information, sound, sound out smb., suck smb.'s brain, take a sounding), ağız aramak (fish for information, fly a kite, pump, put out a feeler, sound out smb., take a sounding). (various references) довідуватися (ask, ask about, ask after, consult, discover, inquire, query whether). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-n-o-o-s-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: donuts, nodous, stound, tondos. | |
-3 letters: donut, dunts, nodus, outdo, snood, snoot, snout, sound, stood, tondo, tonus, toons. | |
-4 letters: dons, dost, dots, duns, dunt, duos, dust, nods, nous, nuts, onto, onus, oots, ouds, oust, outs, snot, soon, soot, stud, stun, tods, tons, toon, tuns, udos, undo, unto. | |
-5 letters: don, dos, dot, dun, duo, nod, noo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-n-o-o-s-t-u-u" | |
+2 letters: groundouts, southbound. | |
+3 letters: outrebounds, roundabouts. | |
+5 letters: discontinuous. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 75 6E 64 4F 75 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 00100000 01001111 01110101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o u n d   O u t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 0075 006E 0064 004F 0075 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53818780702498786 |
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