foresoundとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From fore- +‎ sound.

名詞

foresound (複数形 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.

反意語

• aftersound

動詞

foresound (三人称単数 現在形 foresounds, 現在分詞 foresounding, 過去形および過去分詞形 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; […]