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loudness

/loud/US // laʊd //UK // (laʊd) //

响度,音量,响亮度,响声

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    loud·er, loud·est.

    • : strongly audible; having exceptional volume or intensity: loud talking; loud thunder; loud whispers.
    • : making, emitting, or uttering strongly audible sounds: a quartet of loud trombones.
    • : clamorous, vociferous, or blatant; noisy: a loud party; a loud demonstration.
    • : emphatic or insistent: to be loud in one's praises; a loud denial.
    • : garish, conspicuous, or ostentatious, as colors, dress, or the wearer of garish dress: loud ties; a loud dresser.
    • : obtrusively vulgar, as manners or persons.
    • : strong or offensive in smell.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a loud manner; loudly: Don't talk so loud.

Phrases

  • loud and clear
  • loud mouth
  • actions speak louder than words
  • big (loud) mouth
  • for crying out loud
  • out loud
  • think aloud
  • (loud enough) to wake the dead

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • It was loud and aggrieved, and it filled the Republican Party with fear.

  • Author Martin Amis — one of the loudest British voices chronicling apocalyptic angst and moral laxities in the 1980s — has something of a subtext on sophisti-pop in his 1984 novel "Money."

  • The volume on the TV was loud, and our conversation — during which she facetiously suggested that I sneak a peek at one of the closed exhibitions — boomed throughout the room like an airport boarding announcement.

  • His hands stay inside the baseball extremely well, he has a feel for the strike zone, and he had as loud of a bat that we had at our Instructional League camp.

  • While it is never good to hold your breath when breathing pressurized air at depth, gliding down from above the fish while slowly exhaling to prevent loud noises is a deadly technique.

  • There was a little pause while the music rose to a loudness greater than was comfortable as a background to conversation.

  • The Loud Concrete is simply the equable concrete uttered with greater fulness of breath and loudness of tone.

  • The thug is aware that loudness convinces sixty persons where reasoning convinces but one.

  • A sudden silence fell, and the hitherto unheeded noises of the night smote on his ears with uncanny loudness.

  • In a minute, the number and loudness of the voices indicated that the whole party was collected in and around that secret place.