Paronomasia is a literary device which ' plays ' on the sound of each word for literary effect.

Some of these plays were later adapted into silent and sound films.

They tumble through a series of signs from the presentation on their way through, each labeled with the appropriate onomatopoeia for the sound effect that plays during the fight.

" which plays with the similar – but not identical – sound of " peas " and " peace ".

The Forest Service plays a key role in formulating policy and coordinating U. S. support for the protection and sound management of the world's forest resources.

** Sampler ( musical instrument ), an electronic music instrument that plays back sound recordings on command

“ Seneca has been claimed as a forerunner of radio drama because his plays were performed by readers as sound plays, not by actors as stage plays ; but in this respect Seneca had no significant successors until 20th-century technology made possible the widespread dissemination of sound plays .” Radio drama achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its initial development in the 1920s.

An important turning point in radio drama came when Schenectady, New York's WGY, after a successful tryout on August 3, 1922, began weekly studio broadcasts of full-length stage plays in September 1922, using music, sound effects and a regular troupe of actors, The WGY Players.

The instrument's key tells which pitch will sound when the player plays a note written as C. A player of a B clarinet who reads a written C will sound a B while the player of an F horn will read the same note and sound an F.

London in the United Kingdom plays host to " free parties " ( term used by the squat party scene ) thrown by an array of sound systems every week.

* A novelty hit, " Frig-O-Rator ", was released in December 1985 on the Motown label by Roq-In ' Zoo and featured sound bites of Bears game plays.

As the thimbles are touched together, the laptop in turn plays a different sound sample.

For years, members of the Montevallo Main Street Players have needed a theater, complete with an up-to-date lighting and sound system, that they can use consistently for producing plays and storing props.

Even though the " Restoration drama " unit taught to college students is likely to be telescoped in a way that makes the plays all sound contemporary, scholars now have a strong sense of the rapid evolution of English drama over these forty years and of its social and political causes.

The interaction between the loudspeakers and the room ( room acoustics ) plays an important part in sound quality.

The enclosure plays a major role in the sound of the loudspeaker.

When words can be used in a more fresh and primitive way so that they strike with the force of sights and sounds, when tones of sound and colors of paint and the carven shape all strike the sensibilities with an undeniable force of data in and of themselves, compelling the observer into an attitude of attention, all this imitates the way experience itself in its deepest character strikes upon the door of consciousness and clamors for entrance.

Rousseau had to admit that though he couldn't agree to a public performance, he would indeed, just for his own private satisfaction, dearly love to know how his work would sound when done by professional musicians and by trained voices.

The week after Manassas the sound of horses in the yard brought Kate up in shock from an afternoon's rest when she saw the Federal soldiers from her upstairs window.

Pool records reveal in detail the cost per mile and miles per gallon of each vehicle, the miles traveled in one year or three years, the periods when vehicle costs become excessive, and when cars should be traded for sound economies.

It now means ominous, as when one speaks of a funny sound in the motor ; ;

Earlier, this woman had been so filled with a chaotic variety of introjects that at times, when she was in her room alone, it would sound to a passerby as though there were several different persons in the room, as she would vocalize in various kinds of voice.

This circumstance in the patient's case plus the fact that his tactual capacity remained basically in sound working order constitutes its exceptional value for the problem at hand since the evidence presented by the authors is overwhelming that, when the patient closed his eyes, he had absolutely no spatial ( that is, third-dimensional ) awareness whatsoever.

He was trapped on the road when he heard the sound of an approaching car.

And the bed that sagged in a certain place where all the weight had been put too many times before and the walls fine and thin for overhearing talk in the next room when Gratt went out for ice, the sound coming through the walls like something on the other side of the curtain, so you knew they heard you when they were quiet and while you lay wondering what they had heard you listened.

This may distend like a balloon and acts as a resonator, helping to transfer the sound to the atmosphere, or the water at times when the animal is submerged.

If, for example, a string sounds the note C when plucked, a string twice as long will sound the same note an octave lower.

The concept occurs when a unit of meaning can vary in sound without changing meaning.

* Partial devoicing of sonorants – In English sonorants () are partially devoiced when they follow a voiceless sound within the same syllable.

A problem is called subsonic if all the speeds in the problem are less than the speed of sound, transonic if speeds both below and above the speed of sound are present ( normally when the characteristic speed is approximately the speed of sound ), supersonic when the characteristic flow speed is greater than the speed of sound, and hypersonic when the flow speed is much greater than the speed of sound.

an example of how to add an audio file to function as an alert sound in a computer system, and an illustrative quote regarding how to know if one's opponent has been destroyed in an action hero game.

* In popular Warcraft III custom map " Defense of the Ancients ", Akasha is the name of a female hero with the ability to create waves of sound that damage multiple units.

Blake was also the hero of numerous silent and sound films, radio serials and a 1960s ITV television series.

The melancholic sound of this Ravanahatha might be a reflection of the character of Ravana, a tragic hero who the author of the ' Ramayana ' demonised, conveniently ignoring his abilities as a scholar, musician and technologist.

Leslie Halliwell in The Filmgoer's Companion, summed up Cromwell's enduring appeal when he described him as " a leading man, gentle hero of early sound films.

He was the voice of the hero in the Chuck Menville pixillated short film Blaze Glory, in which his already-deep voice was enhanced with reverb echo to give the character an exaggerated super-hero sound.

The sound and lyrics of the album made Tsoi a hero among Soviet youth and Kino the most popular rock band ever.

In the game Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, the neutral hero Firelord's birth sound is him saying " Beware, I live.

Although it is not entirely clear on whether he is the originator of the concept, British author Len Deighton prefigured the concept of Acoustic Kitty in his novel, Billion Dollar Brain ( 1966 ), where the unnamed hero ( Harry Palmer ) notes that " Even the cats of East Berlin are wired ..." for sound recording.

Although later recognized by both Col. Edward R. S. Canby, Commander of the Department of New Mexico, and Col. Christopher " Kit " Carson of the First New Mexico Vounteers for his sound military abilities, Tappan voluntarily relinquished his seniority rights and joined in signing a petition from among the men of the First Colorado to elevate Chivington, the recent hero of the Glorieta battle to the Colonelcy.

Whilst we never see the full outcome of the shot, the sound of the crowd cheering and Fletch smiling as the last shot in Dream Team's history meant that Porter scored albeit assisted from his hero Karl Fletcher