Sound vs. Bay — What's the Difference?

In good condition; not damaged or diseased.

A body of water partially enclosed by land.

To measure the depth of something, especially water.

A recessed or indented area of land.

In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid. In human physiology and psychology, sound is the reception of such waves and their perception by the brain.

A section of a building or room, used for a particular purpose.

Vibrations transmitted through an elastic solid or a liquid or gas, with frequencies in the approximate range of 20 to 20,000 hertz, capable of being detected by human organs of hearing.

A sound made by hounds, especially when hunting.

Transmitted vibrations of any frequency.

A reddish-brown color, typically describing horse coats.

The sensation stimulated in the organs of hearing by such vibrations in the air or other medium.

A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or even another bay. A large bay is usually called a gulf, sea, sound, or bight.

Such sensations considered as a group.

A body of water partially enclosed by land but with a wide mouth, affording access to the sea

A distinctive noise

An area of land, such as an arm of prairie partially enclosed by woodland, that resembles in shape or formation a partially enclosed body of water.

The distance over which something can be heard

(Architecture) A part of a building marked off by vertical elements, such as columns or pilasters

An articulation made by the vocal apparatus

A bay window.

The distinctive character of such an articulation

An opening or recess in a wall.

A mental impression; an implication

A section or compartment, as in a service station, barn, or aircraft, that is set off for a specific purpose

Auditory material that is recorded, as for a movie.

A sickbay.

Meaningless noise.

(Computers) A drive bay.

(Music) A distinctive style, as of an orchestra or singer.

A reddish brown.

(Archaic) Rumor; report.

A reddish-brown animal, especially a horse having a black mane and tail.

A long, relatively wide body of water, larger than a strait or a channel, connecting larger bodies of water.

A deep, prolonged bark, such as the sound made by hounds.

A long, wide ocean inlet.

The position of one cornered by pursuers and forced to turn and fight at close quarters

(Archaic) The swim bladder of a fish.

The position of having been checked or held at a distance

An instrument used to examine or explore body cavities, as for foreign bodies or other abnormalities, or to dilate strictures in them.

See laurel.

To make or give forth a sound

Any of certain other trees or shrubs with aromatic foliage, such as the California laurel.

To be given forth as a sound

A crown or wreath made especially of the leaves and branches of the laurel and given as a sign of honor or victory.

To present a particular impression

Often bays Honor; renown.

To cause to give forth or produce a sound

Reddish-brown

To summon, announce, or signal by a sound

To utter a deep, prolonged bark.

(Linguistics) To articulate; pronounce

To pursue or challenge with barking

To make known; celebrate

To express by barking or howling

To examine (a body organ or part) by causing to emit sound; auscultate.

To bring to bay

To measure the depth of (water), especially by means of a weighted line; fathom.

(obsolete) A berry.

To try to learn the attitudes or opinions of

, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.

To probe (a body cavity) with a sound.

Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.

To measure depth.

The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or victor; hence, fame, victory.

To dive swiftly downward. Used of a marine mammal or a fish.

A tract covered with bay trees.

To look into a possibility; investigate.

A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeche in Mexico.

Free from defect, decay, or damage; in good condition

(geography) A body of water (especially the sea) more-or-less three-quarters surrounded by land.

Free from disease or injury.

A bank or dam to keep back water.

Marked by or showing common sense and good judgment; levelheaded

An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.

Based on valid reasoning; having no logical flaws

An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.

(Logic) Of or relating to an argument in which all the premises are true and the conclusion follows from the premises.

The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.

Secure or stable

(nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.

Financially secure or safe

(rail transport) A bay platform.

Thorough; complete

A bay window.

Deep and unbroken; undisturbed

The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.

Compatible with an accepted point of view; orthodox

(by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.

Thoroughly; deeply

(figuratively) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.

Healthy.

A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.

Complete, solid, or secure.

A horse of this color.

Having the property of soundness.

(intransitive) To howl.

Good; acceptable; decent.

(transitive) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.

(of sleep) Quiet and deep.

(transitive) To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.

Heavy; laid on with force.

Of a reddish-brown colour (especially of horses).

Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.

Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; - applied to the color of horses.

Soundly.

An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character.

Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.

A small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc.

A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.

A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.

A vibration capable of causing such sensations.

A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers.

(music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra, &.

A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks.

Noise without meaning; empty noise.

A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay.

, distance within which a certain noise may be heard.

A berry, particularly of the laurel.

(phonetics) A segment as a part of spoken language, the smallest unit of spoken language, a speech sound.

The laurel tree (Laurus nobilis). Hence, in the plural, an honorary garland or crown bestowed as a prize for victory or excellence, anciently made or consisting of branches of the laurel.

A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean.

A tract covered with bay trees.

The air bladder of a fish.

Deep-toned, prolonged barking.

A long, thin probe for sounding or dilating body cavities or canals such as the urethra; a sonde.

A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.

(intransitive) To produce a sound.

A bank or dam to keep back water.

(copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.

To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game.

(intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.

To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay; as, to bay the bear.

To resound.

To bathe.

To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law, or as likely to result in a particular kind of legal remedy.

To dam, as water; - with up or back.

(transitive) To cause to produce a sound.

An indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf

To pronounce.

The sound of a hound on the scent

(intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale.

Small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by ancient Greeks to crown victors

To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.

A compartment on a ship between decks; often used as a hospital;

Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.

A compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purpose;

(medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.

A small recess opening off a larger room

The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.

A horse of a moderate reddish-brown color

A cuttlefish.

Utter in deep prolonged tones

A narrow passage of water, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean; as, the Sound between the Baltic and the german Ocean; Long Island Sound.

Bark with prolonged noises, of dogs

Any elongated instrument or probe, usually metallic, by which cavities of the body are sounded or explored, especially the bladder for stone, or the urethra for a stricture.

(used of animals especially a horse) of a moderate reddish-brown color

The peceived object occasioned by the impulse or vibration of a material substance affecting the ear; a sensation or perception of the mind received through the ear, and produced by the impulse or vibration of the air or other medium with which the ear is in contact; the effect of an impression made on the organs of hearing by an impulse or vibration of the air caused by a collision of bodies, or by other means; noise; report; as, the sound of a drum; the sound of the human voice; a horrid sound; a charming sound; a sharp, high, or shrill sound.

The occasion of sound; the impulse or vibration which would occasion sound to a percipient if present with unimpaired; hence, the theory of vibrations in elastic media such cause sound; as, a treatise on sound.

Noise without signification; empty noise; noise and nothing else.

Whole; unbroken; unharmed; free from flaw, defect, or decay; perfect of the kind; as, sound timber; sound fruit; a sound tooth; a sound ship.

Healthy; not diseased; not being in a morbid state; - said of body or mind; as, a sound body; a sound constitution; a sound understanding.

Firm; strong; safe.

Free from error; correct; right; honest; true; faithful; orthodox; - said of persons; as, a sound lawyer; a sound thinker.

Founded in truth or right; supported by justice; not to be overthrown on refuted; not fallacious; as, sound argument or reasoning; a sound objection; sound doctrine; sound principles.

Heavy; laid on with force; as, a sound beating.

Undisturbed; deep; profound; as, sound sleep.

Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective; as, a sound title to land.

Soundly.

To measure the depth of; to fathom; especially, to ascertain the depth of by means of a line and plummet.

Fig.: To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.

To explore, as the bladder or urethra, with a sound; to examine with a sound; also, to examine by auscultation or percussion; as, to sound a patient.

To ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.

To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a perceptible effect.

To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.

To make or convey a certain impression, or to have a certain import, when heard; hence, to seem; to appear; as, this reproof sounds harsh; the story sounds like an invention.

To cause to make a noise; to play on; as, to sound a trumpet or a horn; to sound an alarm.

To cause to exit as a sound; as, to sound a note with the voice, or on an instrument.

To order, direct, indicate, or proclain by a sound, or sounds; to give a signal for by a certain sound; as, to sound a retreat; to sound a parley.

To celebrate or honor by sounds; to cause to be reported; to publish or proclaim; as, to sound the praises of fame of a great man or a great exploit.

To examine the condition of (anything) by causing the same to emit sounds and noting their character; as, to sound a piece of timber; to sound a vase; to sound the lungs of a patient.

To signify; to import; to denote.

The particular auditory effect produced by a given cause;

The subjective sensation of hearing something;

Mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium;

The sudden occurrence of an audible event;

The audible part of a transmitted signal;

(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language

A narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water

A large ocean inlet or deep bay;

Appear in a certain way;

Make a certain noise or sound;

Give off a certain sound or sounds;

Announce by means of a sound;

Utter with vibrating vocal chords

Cause to sound;

Measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line

Financially secure and safe;

Exercising or showing good judgment;

In good condition; free from defect or damage or decay;

In excellent physical condition;

Reflects weight of sound argument or evidence;

Having legal efficacy or force;

Free from moral defect;

(of sleep) deep and complete;

Thorough;

Deeply or completely;

A large sea or ocean inlet.

Vibrations that travel through the air or another medium.

A narrow passage of water between larger bodies.

While they both refer to bodies of water, they have distinct characteristics and aren't always interchangeable.

It provides more interior space and offers a broader view outside.

Often due to tectonic activity or the melting of glaciers.

It can also refer to vibrations that travel through the air, like music or speech.

Bays can have currents, but their strength varies based on size and location.

No, bays can also be found along lakes.

Yes, particularly in describing a reddish-brown horse.

It means measuring how deep a body of water is.

A Sound is typically larger than a bay.

It means the structure is in good condition and not damaged.

They can serve as sheltered routes or harbors for ships.

A Sound is a large sea or ocean inlet, often larger than a bay.

Yes, some bays are believed to have formed due to meteor impacts.

Yes, examples include the Bay of Bengal, San Francisco Bay, and the Bay of Fundy.

Most sounds connect to the sea or ocean and are saltwater, but there can be exceptions.