Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to humanly audible sound.
- adj. Of or relating to the broadcasting, reproduction, or reception of sound.
- adj. Of or relating to high-fidelity sound reproduction.
- n. The part of television or movie equipment that has to do with sound.
- n. The broadcasting, reception, or reproduction of sound.
- n. Audible sound.
- n. A sound signal: lost the audio during the broadcast.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or relating to audible sound.
- adj. Of or relating to the broadcasting or reproduction of sound, especially high-fidelity reproduction.
- n. A sound, or a sound signal
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. the part of a transmitted signal which conveys the sound of the event represented by the signal, such as that of a television program.
- n. an audible acoustic wave frequency.
- n. the sound elements of television.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the audible part of a transmitted signal
- n. a recording of acoustic signals
- n. an audible acoustic wave frequency
- n. the sound elements of television
Etymologies
- From Latin audiō ("hear, listen") (Wiktionary)
- From audio-. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This always happen if you have many audio files from different songs with the same "audio# file name in your computer" and if you select a wrong audio file”
“Unfortunately, for me, the audio is almost impossible to hear.”
“There are about 10000 articles on KidsHealth in English and Spanish, and the audio is available in both languages.”
“I'm pretty sure that "audio" is not a piece of the EM spectrum, it just describes sound, which is a different phenomenon altogether.”
“What was most damning IMO about the comment caught in audio is that it revealed that Brown didn’t really even care about the woman’s concerns and just dismissed them as “bigoted” and by extension dismissed other Britons (including many in the Labour Party) who might identify with this woman’s concerns.”
“I hope this universe will be available in audio – novels and novellas.”
“Sadly, my story was not shortlisted, so I present it today (in audio) as an example of redrafting and critique.”
“One part Brit, one part Kiwi and a smattering of the usual OMG! goodness – but in audio form.”
“Should Obama prefer to listen to the books on his iPod, four are available in audio format with a total running time of nearly 40 hours.”
“If you come into a small pile of cash, you might also considering picking up some of the the Dresden books in audio format, read by the delicious James Marsters (Spike from Buffy and Angel.)”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘audio’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Fun with Apocopes
Words created by removing the end of a longer or original word. See also Fun with Aphesis.
abs, ad, bio, veg, veggie, tux, auto, bike, carbs, pecs, bro, sis and 186 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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hifi_del_norte's Words
vegetable, spatula, bang, fluctuate, carnage, simple, audio, hi-fi, empanada, bonnie, gazpacho, memoirs and 108 more...
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HTML Tags
A list of all the HTML tags.
a, abbr, acronym, address, applet, area, article, aside, audio, b, base, basefont and 108 more...
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tragedy of the commons
insomnia, arabesque, carousal, lucifer, riot, submerge, initiate, indigo, existence, magenta, opus, sleeplessness and 145 more...
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My Modern Job in the Past
Words I come across at work.
Now stripped of most military terms, which have found a new home on the list Historical Military Terms of Interest. See also (and add to!) hilarious misspe...chaise-marine, delft, delftware, quince, tympan, cresset, navvy, venn diagram, poop deck, apothecary, heliotrope, millinery and 294 more...
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Facade
civilization, illumination, clone, danger, enigma, garden, green, healer, laugh, lord, pledge, poem and 122 more...
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braggadocio
an addendum or Anhang to Prolagus's list 'The braggadocio recipe'
amoeba, angina, antenna, aria, arnica, audio, aurora, biro, bronco, bubo, cafe, calico and 88 more...
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The Much Avoided Latin-rooted-English...
..because something like 60% of English is based in Latin.
dirge, pudendum, museum, median, hypothesis, liberty, ergo, theater, history, apocrypha, synaesthesia, anodyne and 50 more...
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Vowel Rich
Scrabble List: vowel dumps
aeon, aero, agee, agio, ague, aide, akee, alee, alae, aloe, amia, amie and 67 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for audio.
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