soundproof
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.43 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To make resistant to transmitting sound.
Example Sentences
- "The contestant was placed in a soundproof booth so he could not receive help from the audience."
- "The electrical activity of the subject's cerebral cortex was recorded in a state of relative rest, after a 5 min adaptation of the subject to a dark soundproof chamber. The biopotentials were recorded from the electroencephaloscope screen […]"
- "We soundproofed the room so we couldn't hear the road noises; unfortunately we couldn't hear the fire alarm either."
- "It almost goes without saying that the train is fully soundproofed, with double-glazed windows and highly efficient air-conditioning by the British firm of J. Stone."
- "Soundproofing a room may be as simple as sealing gaps around a door, or it may require rebuilding an entire wall or lowering a ceiling."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more soundproof (comparative)
most soundproof (superlative)
soundproofs (present, singular)
soundproofing (participle, present)
soundproofed (participle, past)
soundproofed (past)