Sourdine

Definition: Sourdine

Sourdine

Noun

1. A mute for a violin.

2. An organ stop resulting in a soft muted sound.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
SOURDINE	English	Study of Optimisation procedUres for decReasing the Impact of NoisE around airports	Physics, Transportation
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Sourdine

Synonym: sordino (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Concealment	Januis clausis, with closed doors, a huis clos; hugger mugger, a la derobee; under the cloak of, under the rose, under the table; sub rosa, en tapinois, in the background, aside, on the sly, with bated breath, sotto voce, in a whisper, without beat of drum, a la sourdine.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Sourdine

Non-English Usage: "Sourdine" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (mute).

Domain	Title
Books	Le\Moulin de la Sourdine (reference) Un Vagabond Joue En Sourdine (reference) (more book examples)

Music	En Sourdine (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "sourdine": a la sourdine. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "sourdine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		surdinë (sordine), tingullmbytës (sordine). (various references)

Bulgarian		сурдинка (mute, sordino), сурдина (sordino). (various references)

Czech		nemluva. (various references)

Hungarian		hangfogó (damper, mute, silencer, sordino). (various references)

Pig Latin		ourdinesay

Romanian		surdinã (mute, silencer, sordino). (various references)

Russian		сурдинка (muffler, mute, sordine). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sordina (mute, sordine). (various references)

Spanish		sordina (muffler, mute, sordine, sordino). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sourdine": sourdines. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: dourines.
	Words within the letters "d-e-i-n-o-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: dineros, diurons, dourine, durions, enduros, indorse, insured, neuroid, ordines, resound, rosined, sordine, sounder, undoers, urinose.
	-2 letters: dinero, diners, diuron, donsie, dories, douser, drones, durion, enduro, indues, insure, inured, inures, ironed, irones, noised, nosier, nudies, nursed, onside, redons, rinsed, rouens, rounds, roused, ruined, rusine, senior, snider, snored, sonder, sorned, soured, sunder, undies, undoer.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-i-n-o-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: coinsured, decurions, foundries, gueridons, nourished, sourdines.
	+2 letters: adenovirus, boundaries, bounderish, discounter, eruditions, furanoside, indecorous, indecorums, introduces, noninsured, rediscount, reductions, resounding, tendrilous.
	+3 letters: beshrouding, counterbids, countryside, delusionary, destruction, discounters, enshrouding, furanosides, gourmandise, incredulous, introducers, outdressing, outsprinted, outstridden, overinsured, oversudsing, rediscounts, rotundities, shouldering, smouldering, strikebound, subordinate, underbodies, undistorted, unsoldering, unsoldierly.
	+4 letters: adenoviruses, counterraids, countrysides, desirousness, destructions, deuterations, droughtiness, fourdriniers, glucuronides, gourmandises, gourmandizes, groundfishes, housetrained, indecorously, malnourished, misconstrued, orotundities, outbreedings, outsiderness, outspreading, overdiscount, overindulges, profundities, rediscounted, reductionism, reductionist, reeducations, reintroduces, repudiations, resoundingly, subordinated, subordinates, surrejoinder, unconsidered, underscoring, understories, undiscovered.
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