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/ˈɑdəbəl/ Listen

Audible

adjective

Heard or perceptible by the ear. Synonym: hearable.

noun

A football play is changed orally after both teams have assumed their positions at the line of scrimmage.

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"Audible" Quotes from Famous Books

... Helderbergers reared their round burly heads above the wall, and beside each pumpkin-head peered the end of a rusty musket. Nothing daunted by this formidable array, Anthony Van Corlear drew forth and read with audible voice a missive from William the Testy, protesting against the usurpation of Bearn Island, and ordering the garrison to quit the premises, bag and baggage, on pain of the vengeance of the potentate ...

— Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete • Washington Irving

... fancied that I felt light falls on my face,—a disagreeable turn of thought, suggesting other and more objectionable approaches up my back. When I had lain awake a little while, those extraordinary voices with which silence teems began to make themselves audible. The closet whispered, the fireplace sighed, the little washing-stand ticked, and one guitar-string played occasionally in the chest of drawers. At about the same time, the eyes on the wall acquired a new expression, and in every one of those staring rounds ...

— Great Expectations • Charles Dickens

... girl's footsteps could be heard crossing the hall, and the raising of the drawing-room window and opening of the shutters were clearly audible. Winter, whose office had been a sinecure hitherto, ...

— The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley • Louis Tracy

... movements of his bare feet on the carpet (despite her agony the old impulse started in her to caution him about his slippers). Then followed the brushing of his teeth and the deliberate bathing of his hands. Then was audible the puff of breath with which he blew out his lamp after he had turned it low; and then,—on the other side of the door,—just above ...

— Bride of the Mistletoe • James Lane Allen

... resumed their pulling with a will, encouraged by the fact that the shouts kept up by the unseen man were rapidly becoming clearer, more audible, and evidently nearer. Suddenly a dark mass loomed up ahead and another cry told them that they were ...

— Dick Leslie's Luck - A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure • Harry Collingwood

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