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Definition of Sound off

1. Verb. Express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation. "John spoke up at the meeting"

2. Verb. Start playing. "The musicians struck up a tune"

3. Verb. Express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness. "They sound off that there was a traffic accident "; "She has a lot to kick about"

Definition of Sound off

1. Verb. To hold forth about something in an opinionated manner ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sound Off

sound cards sound change sound changes sound effect sound effects sound energy sound engineer sound engineering sound film sound hole

sound holes sound judgement sound judgment sound law sound localization sound off (current term) sound out sound perception sound pollution sound pressure

sound pressure level sound projection sound property sound ranging sound recording sound reflection sound reproduction sound spectrograph sound spectrography sound spectrum

Literary usage of Sound off

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

1. Records Relating to American Prisoners of War and Missing in Action from the edited by Charles E. Schamel (1997)
"... Hanoi Visit in December, part 3 (Item 46) 3o date Tapes separated from the series "Investigator's Case Files: Hilton Foster," sound off #064-066 (Item ..."

2. Report Upon the Invertebrate Animals of Vineyard Sound and Adjacent Waters by Addison Emery Verrill (1874)
"... Long Island Sound; off New Haven, in 4 to 6 fathoms, mud; off Thimble Islands, 3 to 8 fathoms, soft mud, rare. This species is, in some respects, ..."

3. Manual of Reading, in Four Parts: Orthophony, Class Methods, Gesture, and by H. L. D. Potter (1871)
"In some words it has the sound off, as in tough, laugh; and in some the ... In clough and slough it is sometimes silent, and sometimes has the sound off. ..."

4. Manual of Reading, in Four Parts: Orthophony, Class Methods, Gesture, and by H. L. D. Potter (1877)
"In some words it has the sound off, as in tough, laugh; and in some the ... In clough and slough it is-sometimes silent, and sometimes has the sound off. ..."

5. Report on the Geology & Gold Fields of Otago by Frederick Wollaston Hutton, George H. F. Ulrich, J. G. Black, James McKerrow (1875)
"... sound off First Cove ; 1500 feet in Thompson Sound, off Deas Cove; and 1284 feet in Milford Sound, off the Stirling- waterfall. ..."

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