sound out
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sound out
vb
(tr, adverb) to question (someone) in order to discover (opinions, facts, etc)
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| Verb | 1. | sound out - 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?" twang - pronounce with a nasal twang devoice - utter with tense vocal chords raise - pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth; "raise your `o'" lilt - articulate in a very careful and rhythmic way palatalise, palatalize - pronounce a consonant with the tongue against the palate nasalise, nasalize - speak nasally or through the nose; "In this part of the country, people tend to nasalize" mispronounce, misspeak - pronounce a word incorrectly; "She mispronounces many Latinate words" aspirate - pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds retroflex - articulate (a consonant) with the tongue curled back against the palate; "Indian accents can be characterized by the fact that speakers retroflex their consonants" subvocalise, subvocalize - articulate without making audible sounds; "she was reading to herself and merely subvocalized" syllabise, syllabize - utter with distinct articulation of each syllable; "The poet syllabized the verses he read" drawl - lengthen and slow down or draw out; "drawl one's vowels" lisp - speak with a lisp accent, accentuate, stress - put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word" vowelise, vowelize, vocalise, vocalize - pronounce as a vowel; "between two consonants, this liquid is vowelized" click - produce a click; "Xhosa speakers click" trill - pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme `r'; "Some speakers trill their r's" sibilate - pronounce with an initial sibilant flap - pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds explode - cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/ roll - pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/; "She rolls her r's" |
| 2. | sound out - try to learn someone's opinions and intentions; "I have to sound out the new professor" |
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Translations
يُحاوِل مَعْرِفَة أفكار وخُطَط الشَّخْص
sondovat
høre hvad har at sige
kipuhatol
komast aî skoîunum/áætlunum e-s
sondovať
ağız aramak
w>sound out
vt sep person → aushorchen, ausfragen; intentions, opinions → herausfinden, herausbekommen; to sound somebody out about or on something → bei jdm in Bezug auf etw (acc) → vorfühlen
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sound3
(saund) verb to measure the depth of (water etc).
ˈsounding noun1. (a) measurement of depth of water etc.
2. a depth measured.
3. (an) act of trying to find out views etc.
sound out to try to find out someone's thoughts and plans etc. Will you sound out your father on this?
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