Word Meanings - RESONANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A prolongation or increase of any sound, eithar by reflection, as in a cavern or apartment the walls of which are not distant enough to return a distinct echo, or by the production of vibrations in other bodies, as a sounding-board, or the bodies

Additional info about word: RESONANCE

A prolongation or increase of any sound, eithar by reflection, as in a cavern or apartment the walls of which are not distant enough to return a distinct echo, or by the production of vibrations in other bodies, as a sounding-board, or the bodies of musical instruments. Pulmonary resonance , the sound heard on percussing over the lungs. -- Vocal resonance , the sound transmitted to the ear when auscultation is made while the patient is speaking. (more info) 1. The act of resounding; the quality or state of being resonant.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RESONANCE)

• Crash
• Jar
• clang
• clash
• resonance
• Echo
• Reverberation
• repetition
• imitation
• answer
• Intonation
• Melody
• accentuation
• ring
• Sound
• Resonance
• audibility
• noise
• report

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RESONANCE)

• Silence
• hush
• suppress
• misreport
• misrepresent
• miarelate
• falsify

Related words: (words related to RESONANCE)

• MISREPORT
  To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of. Locke.
• REVERBERATION
  The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reëchoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame
• AUDIBILITY
  The quality of being audible; power of being heard; audible capacity.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• ANSWER
  1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation. 2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to ; to
• CRASH
  1. A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of manu things falling and breaking at once. The wreck of matter and the crash of worlds. Addison. 2. Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise.
• SOUNDLY
  In a sound manner.
• SOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
• CLANGOR
  A sharp, harsh, ringing sound. Dryden.
• SOUNDING BALLOON
  An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes.
• SOUND-BOARD
  A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton.
• SUPPRESSION
  Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion. Quain. (more info) 1. The act of suppressing,
• CLASH
  1. To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together. 2. To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere. However some of his interests might clash with those of the chief adjacent
• SOUND
  1. To causse to make a noise; to play on; as, to sound a trumpet or a horn. A bagpipe well could he play and soun . Chaucer. 2. To cause to exit as a sound; as, to sound a note with the voice, or on an instrument. 3. To order, direct, indicate,
• REPETITIONAL; REPETITIONARY
  Of the nature of, or containing, repetition.
• CLASH GEAR
  A change-speed gear in which the gears are changed by sliding endwise.
• REPETITIONER
  One who repeats.
• MISREPRESENTATION
  Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives. Sydney Smith. Note: In popular use, this word often conveys the idea of intentional
• REPORTAGE
  SAme as Report.
• ANSWERLESS
  Having no answer, or impossible to be answered. Byron.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
• SOUNDLESS
  Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
• MISSOUND
  To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
• INSUPPRESSIVE
  Insuppressible. "The insuppressive mettle of our spirits." Shak.
• DELIMITATION
  The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.
• UNANSWERABLE
  Not answerable; irrefutable; conclusive; decisive; as, he have an unanswerable argument. -- Un*an"swer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*an"swer*a*bly, adv.
• ILLIMITATION
  State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall.