sound vs well

sound

adj
  • Healthy. 

  • Heavy; laid on with force. 

  • Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective. 

  • Complete, solid, or secure. 

  • Having the property of soundness. 

  • Quiet and deep. 

  • Good; acceptable; decent. 

intj
  • Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm. 

verb
  • To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe. 

  • Dive downwards, used of a whale. 

  • To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound. 

  • Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device. 

  • To convey an impression by one's sound. 

  • To cause to produce a sound. 

  • To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion. 

  • To pronounce. 

  • To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law, or as likely to result in a particular kind of legal remedy. 

  • To produce a sound. 

noun
  • Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard. 

  • A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra, &. 

  • A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean. 

  • A long, thin probe for sounding or dilating body cavities or canals such as the urethra; a sonde. 

  • A segment as a part of spoken language, the smallest unit of spoken language, a speech sound. 

  • Noise without meaning; empty noise. 

  • A vibration capable of causing such sensations. 

  • A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium. 

  • The air bladder of a fish. 

adv
  • Soundly. 

well

adj
  • In good health. 

  • Prudent; good; well-advised. 

  • Good, content. 

intj
  • An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and spoken in a lowering intonation). 

  • Used to acknowledge a statement or situation. 

  • An exclamation of indignance. 

  • Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something. 

  • Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause. 

  • Used as a greeting 

  • Used as a question to demand an answer from someone reluctant to answer. 

verb
  • To have something seep out of the surface. 

  • To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring. 

adv
  • To a significant degree. 

  • In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously. 

  • Accurately, competently, satisfactorily. 

  • Completely, fully. 

  • Very (as a general-purpose intensifier). 

noun
  • A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market. 

  • A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects. 

  • A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water. 

  • A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries. 

  • A source of supply. 

  • The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall. 

  • An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole. 

  • In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes. 

  • A well drink. 

  • A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids. 

  • A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring. 

  • The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls. 

  • The cockpit of a sailboat. 

  • The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom. 

  • A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate. 

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