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Examples:antithesis (two lines of poetry matching in sense and sound)—Mach (aeronautics), unit of speed based on speed of sound = 1 Mach = 1224 km per hr—(onom.) for the sound of a bird, an empty stomach etc—character serving as sound value of another character—sound the night watches (on clappers or gongs, in former times)—yueqin, a lute with oval or octagonal sound box—sound of footsteps in an empty valley (idiom); a rare occurrence—stapes or stirrup bone of middle ear, passing sound vibration the inner ear—Mach number, multiples of speed of sound used as unit in aeronautics, with 1 Mach = 1224 km per hr—incus or anvil bone of middle ear, passing sound vibration from malleus hammer bone stapes stirrup bone—sound out the difficulties and retreat to avoid defeat (idiom); fig. to back out of an awkward situation—a transition (stop and change) in spoken sound, music or in brush strokes—sudden big and impressive event (sound, flash, burst, wind)—dissipate everywhere (of light, sound, gas etc)—in Chinese phonetics, the medial and final sound of a syllable (i.e. excluding the initial consonant)—throat sound such as choking, donkey's bray etc—The Sound of Music, Broadway musical (1959) and Academy Award-winning movie (1965)—ten thousand pipes are still (idiom); not a sound be heard—(onom.) sound of the wind or the breathing of sb. who is sound asleep— |