ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

402. Sound -- N. sound, noise, strain; accent, twang, intonation, tone; cadence;
sonorousness &c adj.; audibility; resonance &c 408; voice &c 580; aspirate; ideophone † ;
rough breathing.
[Science, of sound] acoustics; phonics, phonetics, phonology, phonography † ;
diacoustics † , diaphonics † ; phonetism † .
V. produce sound; sound, make a noise; give out sound, emit sound; resound &c 408.
Adj. sounding; soniferous † ; sonorous, sonorific † ; resonant, audible, distinct; stertorous;
phonetic; phonic, phonocamptic † .
Phr. a thousand trills and quivering sounds [Addison]; forensis strepitus [Lat.].
403. Silence -- N. silence; stillness &c (quiet) 265; peace, hush, lull; muteness &c 581;
solemn silence, awful silence, dead silence, deathlike silence.
V. be silent &c adj.; hold one's tongue &c (not speak) 585.
render silent &c adj.; silence, still, hush; stifle, muffle, stop; muzzle, put to silence &c
(render mute) 581.
Adj. silent; still, stilly; noiseless, soundless; hushed &c v.; mute &c 581.
soft, solemn, awful, deathlike, silent as the grave; inaudible &c (faint) 405.
Adv. silently &c adj.; sub silentio [Lat.].
Int. hush!, silence!, soft!, whist!, tush!, chut! † , tut!, pax! [Lat.], be quiet!, be silent!, be
still!, shut up! [Slang]; chup! † , chup rao! † , tace! [It],
Phr. one might hear a feather drop, one might hear a pin drop, so quiet you could hear a
pin drop; grosse Seelen dulden still [G.]; le silence est la vertu de ceux qui ne sont pas
sages [Fr.]; le silence est le parti le plus sar de celui se d_efie de soi-meme [Fr.]; silence
more musical than any song [C.G.
Rossetti]; tacent satis laudant [Lat.]; better to be silent and thought a fool than to
speak up and remove all doubt.
404. Loudness -- N. loudness, power; loud noise, din; blare; clang, clangor; clatter, noise,
bombilation † , roar, uproar, racket, hubbub, bobbery † , fracas, charivari † , trumpet blast,
flourish of trumpets, fanfare, tintamarre † , peal, swell, blast, larum † , boom; bang
(explosion) 406; resonance &c 408.
vociferation, hullabaloo, &c 411; lungs; Stentor.
artillery, cannon; thunder.
V. be loud &c adj.; peal, swell, clang, boom, thunder, blare, fulminate, roar; resound &c
408.
speak up, shout &c (vociferate) 411; bellow &c (cry as an animal) 412.
rend the air, rend the skies; fill the air; din in the ear, ring in the ear, thunder in the ear;
pierce the ears, split the ears, rend the ears, split the head; deafen, stun; faire le diable a
quatre [Fr.]; make one's windows shake, rattle the windows; awaken the echoes, startle
the echoes; wake the dead.
Adj. loud, sonorous; high-sounding, big-sounding; deep, full, powerful, noisy, blatant,
clangorous, multisonous † ; thundering, deafening &c v.; trumpet-tongued; ear-splitting,
ear-rending, ear-deafening; piercing; obstreperous, rackety, uproarious; enough to wake
the dead, enough to wake seven sleepers.
shrill &c 410 clamorous &c (vociferous) 411 stentorian, stentorophonic † .