audible

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a football play is changed orally after both teams have assumed their positions at the line of scrimmage
adjective heard or perceptible by the ear

Borrowed from Middle French audible, from Late Latin audibilis, from Latin audire (“to hear”).

Miles suppressed an audible chuckle. — Terminal Compromise, Winn Schwartau
Ogilvy moved about, invisible but audible. — The war of the worlds, H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
But a sliding sound became audible. — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World, Jules Verne

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