foresound

English

Alternative forms

  • fore-sound

Etymology

From fore- + sound.

Noun

foresound (plural foresounds)

  1. a sound made in advance
    • 1900, Henry Thew Stephenson, Patroon Van Volkenberg:
      Then of a sudden, without any foresounds, the scratching began again.
    • 2013, Charles Davison, A Study Of Recent Earthquakes:
      In Great Britain, on the contrary, the fore-sound is perceptible to four, and the aftersound to three, out of every five observers; and these proportions are maintained roughly to considerable distances from the epicentre.

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Verb

foresound (third-person singular simple present foresounds, present participle foresounding, simple past and past participle foresounded)

  1. (transitive) to sound in advance
    • 1810, John Nott, Robert Herrick, Select poems from the Hesperides:
      Of ash-heaps, in the which ye use
      Husbands and wives by streaks to chuse;
      Of crackling laurel, which foresounds
      A plenteous harvest to your grounds; []

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