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audible

[aw-duh-buhl]

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adjective

capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard.

noun

Also called automatic, checkoff. Football. a play called at the line of scrimmage to supersede the play originally agreed upon as the result of a change in strategy.

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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

a fool or simpleton; ninny.

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Origin:
1520–30; < Late Latin audībilis, equivalent to Latin audī(re) to hear + -bilis -ble

Related forms

au·di·bil·i·ty, au·di·ble·ness, noun

au·di·bly, adverb

non·au·di·bil·i·ty, noun

non·au·di·ble, adjective

non·au·di·ble·ness, noun

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non·au·di·b·ly, adverb

qua·si-au·di·ble, adjective

qua·si-au·di·b·ly, adverb

sub·au·di·bil·i·ty, noun

sub·au·di·ble, adjective

sub·au·di·ble·ness, noun

sub·au·di·b·ly, adverb

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Example Sentences

That is, it was actually audible in the air right around the water where the whale was singing.

His weak voice was barely audible in the room.

In recent years, its voice has been barely audible.

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audible (ˈɔːdɪb^əl)

—*adj*
1.	perceptible to the hearing; loud enough to be heard

—n
2.	American football a change of playing tactics called by the quarterback when the offense is lined up at the line of scrimmage

[C16: from Late Latin audibilis, from Latin audīre to hear]

audi'bility

—n

'audibleness

—n

'audibly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

audible

1520s, from M.Fr. audible, from L.L. audibilis, from L. audire "to hear," from PIE *awis-dh-yo-, from base *au- "to perceive" (see audience). Related: Audibly (1630s).

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"The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true."

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