AUDIBLE
Dictionary entry overview: What does audible mean?
• AUDIBLE (noun)
The noun AUDIBLE has 1 sense:
1. a football play is changed orally after both teams have assumed their positions at the line of scrimmage
Familiarity information: AUDIBLE used as a noun is very rare.
• AUDIBLE (adjective)
The adjective AUDIBLE has 1 sense:
1. heard or perceptible by the ear
Familiarity information: AUDIBLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• AUDIBLE (noun)
Meaning:
A football play is changed orally after both teams have assumed their positions at the line of scrimmage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("audible" is a kind of...):
football play ((American football) a play by the offensive team)
• AUDIBLE (adjective)
Meaning:
Heard or perceptible by the ear
Synonyms:
audible; hearable
Context example:
he spoke in an audible whisper
Similar:
clunky (making a clunking sound)
sonic (relating to audible sound)
sounding (making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form)
Also:
loud (characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity)
perceptible (capable of being perceived by the mind or senses)
Attribute:
audibility; audibleness (quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear)
Antonym:
inaudible (impossible to hear; imperceptible by the ear)
