单词 | acoustic |
释义 | acoustica‧cous‧tic /əˈkuːstɪk/ ●○○ adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINacoustic ExamplesOrigin: 1700-1800 Greek akoustikos ‘of hearing’, from akouein ‘to hear’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorusing sound or connected with sound► sound Collocations: sound waves (=the form that sound takes when it travels) · The ear picks up sound waves and converts them into signals that it sends to the brain.sound effects (=sounds produced to make it seem that something is happening) · A tense atmosphere is easy to create on stage with some sinister music and creepy sound effects. ► acoustic related to sound, especially the way in which people hear sounds - used especially in technical contexts: · Various pieces of recording equipment are used to produce interesting acoustic effects.· Deaf people get no acoustic feedback when they talk, so their speech is often impaired. WORD SETS► COLOURS & SOUNDSablaze, adjectiveacoustic, adjectiveacoustics, nounaglow, adjectivebaa, verbbabble, verbbabble, nounbabel, nounbaby talk, nounbackfire, verbbackground, nounbang, nounbang, verbbang, interjectionbark, verbbark, nounbattle cry, nounbay, verbbeat, verbbeat, nounbellow, verbbellow, nounblare, verbblast, nounbleat, verbbleep, nounbleep, verbblip, nounbong, nounboom, nounboom, verbbowwow, interjectionbrassy, adjectivebray, verbbrazen, adjectivebreathy, adjectivebubble, verbbump, nounchatter, verbchatter, nounclink, verbclink, nouncrack, verbcrack, nouncrackle, verbcrackling, nouncrash, verbcrash, nouncreak, verbcreaky, adjectivecroak, verbcroak, nouncrow, nouncrow, verbcrunch, nouncrunch, verbding-dong, noundiscord, noundiscordant, adjectivedrone, verbdrone, noundrown, verbdrum, verbdrumbeat, noundrumming, noundull, adjectiveecho, verbecho, nounfizz, verbflat, adjectivefootfall, nounfootstep, nounfusillade, noungrinding, adjectivegroan, verbgroan, noungrunt, verbgrunt, nounguffaw, verbgunshot, nounguttural, adjectivehigh, adjectivehigh, adverbhiss, verbindistinct, adjectiveirregular, adjectivelow, verbmarbled, adjectivematching, adjectivemellow, adjectivemelodic, adjectivemelodious, adjectivemetallic, adjectivemoan, verbmoan, nounmodulate, verbmonotone, nounmoo, verbmurmur, verbmurmur, nounmusical, adjectivemusically, adverbmute, verbnasal, adjectivenoise, nounoink, interjectionoof, interjectionpatter, verbpatter, nounpeal, nounpeal, verbpenetrating, adjectivepercussion, nounpsychedelic, adjectivepulse, nounputter, verbquack, verbquack, nounquaver, nounracket, nounrasp, verbrasp, nounraspberry, nounrat-a-tat, nounrattle, nounraucous, adjectivereedy, adjectivereport, nounresonance, nounresonant, adjectiveresonate, verbresonator, nounresound, verbresounding, adjectivereverberate, verbreverberation, nounrich, adjectivering, nounring, verbringing, adjectiveripple, verbripple, nounroar, nounroaring, adjectiveroll, verbrough, adjectiverustle, verbrustle, nounscratch, verbscratch, nounscream, verbscream, nounscrunch, verbsmoky, adjectivesnarl, verbsoft, adjectivesoft-spoken, adjectivesonorous, adjectivesotto voce, adverbsplosh, verbsweet, adjectiveswoosh, verbtick-tock, nountinny, adjectivetonal, adjectivevivid, adjectivevowel, nounwail, verbweak, adjectivewhack, nounwham, interjectionwhine, verbwhinny, verbwhirr, verbwhistle, verbwhistle, nounyelp, nounyowl, verbzoom, noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► an acoustic/an electric/a classical guitarCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► guitar 1relating to sound and the way people hear things2an acoustic guitar or other musical instrument does not have its sound made louder electronically → electric—acoustically /-kli/ adverb· Electric bass, electric and acoustic guitars. b. Tibsheif, Derbyshire.· Budd, who has been strumming his acoustic guitar through the Midwest, writes introspective songs with a witty, sincere touch.· Buckingham used his Takamine for a lot of the acoustic parts, but various electrics and other acoustic guitars were also employed.· His acoustic guitar work is considered the standard by which all other flamenco players are now measured.· Or perhaps it was the combination of moon, surf, and acoustic guitars.· National made these instruments specifically to be the loudest acoustic guitars in existence - and they succeeded.· Their supporting act was a guy dressed in black playing acoustic guitar. ► information· The ability of speech recognition systems to discriminate words from acoustic information alone is not encouraging.· We increased the acoustic information by incorporating lexical stress into the representation.· Increasing the specificity of the acoustic information.· The semantic constraint may take precedence over acoustic information. 4.2.2.2.· And accordingly, listeners process acoustic information less carefully when dealing with predictable words.· Furthermore, the same acoustic information can be perceived differently depending on its higher-level context. ► input· Moreover it may sometimes be the case that the acoustic input is simply insufficient to discriminate between hypotheses.· The first covers transducers, horns or velocity transformers and acoustic input and amplitude, and mentions health and safety.· The problem is not just one of poor acoustic input but also of ambiguous word boundaries.· The representation must allow us to compute a link between descriptions of acoustic input and stored descriptions. ► property· Its unamplified acoustic properties are really quite surprising.· They all share certain acoustic properties which, he thought, would make the call difficult to locate.· The ceiling is closed up with varnished boards which renders the acoustic properties excellent.· As in the case of any musical instrument, the actual form of each grotto directly influenced its individual acoustic properties. ► quality· The high acoustic quality of the recordings proved to be critical in such cases.· Should it at times carry more weight than bottom-up acoustic quality?· Areas of poor acoustic quality but tightly constrained by local syntactic and semantic information would be identified through top-down prediction. ► signal· For speech recognition the principal operational difficulty to be faced is the interference to the acoustic signal from background noise.· When they were built Dungeness was quiet enough not to interfere with acoustic signals.· A further problem can be the microphone performance - different microphones can produce different acoustic signals which need to be standardised. |
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