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sough::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | purl |
| Type of | make noise, noise, resound |
Examples of sough
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Sough had undergone two transplants, and had about a 5 percent chance of finding a match.
From the washingtonpost.com
Hannage sough drained the area to the east of Yokecliffe Rake, on the south of Wirksworth.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Easily the most sough-after machine of the 1980s home computing boom.
From the telegraph.co.uk
One chamber is called Singing Cavern, from the sough of these winds.
From the guardian.co.uk
A sough is an underground channel for draining water out of a mine.
From the en.wikipedia.org
If the mine sump is lower, water must be pumped up to the sough.
From the en.wikipedia.org
She became a sough-after actress and contralto vocalist.
From the kansas.com
This also helped spread the cost of digging the sough.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The main purpose of a sough is to drain water from the mine.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Make a murmuring sound; "the water was purling"
- (soughing) murmurous: characterized by soft sounds; "a murmurous brook"; "a soughing wind in the pines"; "a slow sad susurrous rustle like the wind fingering the pines"- R.P.Warren
- A sough is an underground channel for draining water out of a mine. Its ability to drain a mine depends on the bottom of the mine being higher than a neighbouring valley. If the mine sump is lower, water must be pumped up to the sough.
- (Soughing) Breathy voice (also called murmured voice, soughing, or susurration) is a phonation in which the vocal cords vibrate, as they do in normal (modal) voicing, but are held further apart, so that a larger volume of air escapes between them. This produces an audible noise. ...
- Sound dying on the ear, or a continued sound, like the noise of a high wind.
- A mine drainage level; sometimes forms the entrance to a mine or cave.
- A drainage tunnel for canal tunnel construction or mine workings. Pronounced suff.
