Definition of Sound bite

1. Noun. A very short speech; usually on radio or television.

Generic synonyms: Line

Definition of Sound bite

1. Noun. (context: journalism television) An extract from a speech or interview used as edited into a news or other broadcast; an interview clip, especially seen as particularly expressive or pithy. ¹

2. Noun. (context: often pejorative) A one-liner deliberately produced for this purpose; a statement specifically intended to be punchy and memorable. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sound Bite

soumed
souming
soumings
soums
sound-alike
sound-alikes
sound-board
sound-card
sound alphabet
sound as a bell
sound asleep
sound asleep(p)
sound barrier
sound barriers
sound bite (current term)
sound bites
sound bow
sound box
sound boxes
sound camera
sound card
sound cards
sound change
sound changes
sound effect
sound effects
sound energy
sound engineer
sound engineering

Literary usage of Sound bite

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practice With Purpose: Literacy Work Stations for Grades 3-6by Debbie Diller by Debbie Diller (2005)
"Show students how to use the planning sheet in Appendix H to help them focus their broadcast. Students produce a one-minute sound bite related to ..."

2. Asymmetric Marketing: Tossing the 'Chasm' in the Age of the Software Superpowers by Joseph E. Bentzel (2006)
"The sound bite sandstorm has little to do with whether or not a given superpower's ... So from that point of view the superpower sound bite sandstorm would ..."

3. Changing the Fourth Estate: Essays on South African Journalism by Adrian Hadland (2005)
"It makes the interview more the scene of the story natural. and making him Or her When you do get a sound bite, a quote, from 3 participant. your subject, ..."

4. Hacking College by Dean Kohrs (2006)
"Never trust the headline/sound bite. Yes, it's what everyone will be talking about, but the real story is always in the fine print and it often negates the ..."

5. Through the Eyes of a Beelzebub: A Book of Poems by Walter Prytulak (2006)
"Just as a further splitting and reducing of the atom destroys the chemical element and produces subatomic particles, a further reduction a the sound bite ..."

6. Racial and Ethnic Tensions in American Communities: Poverty, Inequality and edited by Mary Frances Berry (2000)
"This problem ain't hardly no sound-bite basis. We can't get it done that way. But be that as it may, I want to ask each of you, if you will, ..."

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