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loud English

Meaning loud meaning

What does loud mean?
Definitions in simple English

loud

If a sound is loud, you can hear it very easily. If it's very loud, it might hurt your ears. Can you turn down the music, please? It's too loud. If a person is loud, they talk too much or too loudly. After he has a few beers he gets really loud. If colours, clothes, or other things you see are loud, they have too many bright colours or patterns and they don't look good.

loud

characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity a group of loud children loud thunder her voice was too loud loud trombones (= loudly, aloud) with relatively high volume the band played loudly she spoke loudly and angrily he spoke loud enough for those at the back of the room to hear him cried aloud for help (= flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, meretricious, tawdry) tastelessly showy a flash car a flashy ring garish colors a gaudy costume loud sport shirts a meretricious yet stylish book tawdry ornaments (= forte) used chiefly as a direction or description in music the forte passages in the composition

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Topics loud topics

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Simple sentences

The radio is a bit loud.
Tom has an unpleasant, loud voice.
Sometimes the film score is too loud, which irritates me.
His stern tone and loud voice belied his inner sensitivity and caring nature.
You are always wearing a loud necktie.
We sang in loud voices.
The radio is too loud. Can't you turn it down a little?
The radio is too loud.
The radio is too loud. Turn the volume down.
Mr Hopkins spoke in such a loud voice that I could hear him upstairs.
You should not speak so loud.
Don't talk so loud.
Far be it from me to criticize, but your dress is rather loud.
Just as we are talking, there was a loud explosion.
There's no need to speak so loud.
John spoke in such a loud voice that I could hear him upstairs.
Don't talk in a loud voice here.
You don't have to talk so loud.
A loud knocking at the door woke him up.
It's too loud.
Please speak in a loud voice.

Movie subtitles

Even you don't say it out loud because you're worried if it will delay finding your mother, isn't it?
No, no.. loud scream!
It's too loud.
Do you always snore so loud, sweetie?
For crying out loud, where is that guy? Go dig him up.
Well, for crying out loud, I don't know.
For crying out loud, I heard some guys talking about you. saying you were in on some crooked work.
I suppose that was loud enough to wake the dead.
That's too loud.
Not so loud!
I can yell just as loud as you can.
Not quite so loud.
Not good, but loud.
He can sing loud but he can't sing that loud.
Must have been too loud for you in Student Council?
Not too loud.
For crying out loud, where is that guy?
How loud can you holler for help?
How loud?
Not so loud, someone will hear you.
Listen, don't talk so loud.
Here's Joan Crawford, Mr. Durante. Not so loud, please. No answer.
Why are you shouting so loud?
Great would be the burning thereof and loud the rejoicing in Heaven.
You know you not laughing out loud when you typing, okay?
No, he's, um. he's stuck on a remote construction site in Alaska, which, now that I'm saying it out loud.
Ellen read your letters out loud.
Don't think out loud.
She hollered loud enough.
If you say it out loud, it'll come to pass, so they say, a cold shower comes.
We're ordered to bring you to the police immediately. Shh, not that loud!
Not that loud please, we're still a little nervous.
Don't be that loud, Poll.
Don't say it so loud.
Not so loud. You'll wake her up.
Well,. anyhow, we won't have to listen to 'em in the mornin', rattling' the dishes and talkin' and laughin' so loud and cheerful.
Read out loud.

News and current affairs

This, unfortunately, is what has been lost in the debate about Europe of late: However loud and aggressive the anti-austerity movement becomes, there still will be no simple Keynesian cure for the single currency's debt and growth woes.
To loud cheers from the crowds, the populists damn elected politicians as thieves and looters, but in the process disparage the institutions and processes of representative government.
He is loud, crude, ignorant about most things, and looks absurd in his puffed up blond comb-over hairdo.
The message has been received loud and clear. We are using up too much of the planet's area.
And savvy Bank presidents have known that the best way to deflect political pressure is to add yet more bells and whistles - especially when they are visible and loud.
In a world free of that era's ideological constraints, it is time to say loud and clear that the future of capitalism is linked to effective governance and the rule of law, and thus to the consolidation of well-functioning states.
Never in Hong Kong's history has popular opposition--uniting investment bankers, street hawkers, off-duty civil servants, and artists, among others--been so loud.
At Prague, this message will ring out loud and clear.
The Socialists now have no choice but to engage in a debate that is certain to be loud and contentious.
That message came through loud and clear in my recent travels to Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, and Hong Kong.
It cannot say loud and clear that it is not seriously interested in the fate of Cyprus, but that is probably not far from the truth.
There is no indication in the road map that the initiators have thought this out beyond wishing out loud that it would happen.
Yet, surprisingly, many scientists are unaware that loud noises in their animal facilities can affect research outcomes and compromise their data.
For starters, the world's investors declared loud and clear in 2008 that they were not concerned about the sustainability of US deficits.
The alarm bells should be ringing loud and clear across Asia - an export-led region that cannot afford to ignore repeated shocks to its two largest sources of external demand.
This has been accompanied by cascades of populist rhetoric: loud voices and defiant words, and promises to fight to the death against ill-defined but malignant economic special interests.
But loud voices need not be the most effective.
The message has been received loud and clear.
It fuels endless internal and external tensions, encourages finger pointing, and promotes a loud and disruptive blame game.
If the Gaza campaign turns Lebanon-like, with a humanitarian catastrophe, ongoing bombardment of Israeli civilians, or both, domestic criticism will echo loud and clear.
It is even possible that the regime's loud anti-American stance might be meant to hide some secret arrangement with the Americans, especially regarding the Kurds and Iraqi opposition members living in Syria.
Now America has had to pay the price for ignoring loud warnings about the weakened levees of New Orleans.
But when states behave badly enough for long enough, loud megaphones can also be in order.
Economically frustrated youth welcome Ahn with loud cheers wherever he appears, because he expresses their anxiety that the chaebol are stifling new companies that could create much-needed jobs.

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