Learn A Word: Sound

Seeing the title, you are probably thinking: I knew this word! Well, let's check: Do you know what the "Puget Sound" is? What about the "Prince William Sound"?

If you don't know the meaning of "sound" in these two case, you are not alone. Actually, while traveling at the Prince William Sound, I had to ask the captain of our boat in order to understand it. Here is the captain's explanation:  

"A sound is a large, complex body of water with multiple entrances and exits."

As it turned out, the captain's explanation is even better than Wiktionary's definition! Compare the above with the definition of sound under Etymology 3 at Wiktionary. There is a good picture of the Puget Sound by NASA on Wikipedia in the same entry.  See for yourself!

S.D
2014.6.17

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• Awesome! -虛席以待- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/18/2014 postreply 09:35:55

• Thanks! -衝浪潛水員- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/19/2014 postreply 00:03:50

• I have visited Puget Sound~~ -隨意- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/18/2014 postreply 22:38:23

• What was it like? Did you like it? -衝浪潛水員- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/19/2014 postreply 00:03:34

• S.D. Loves the sound of water~~~ -京燕花園- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/19/2014 postreply 11:54:19

• A nice pun! -衝浪潛水員- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/20/2014 postreply 19:30:17

• A nice one! Thanks for sharing! -南山鬆- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/19/2014 postreply 17:50:18

• Puget Sound, I know where it is. -~葉子~- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/20/2014 postreply 16:02:15

• Good for you! -衝浪潛水員- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/20/2014 postreply 19:31:03

• good to know. Thanks for sharing -SnowFallingOnWater- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/20/2014 postreply 17:57:10