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soundalike

soundalike noun: a music recording with this trait. (Often distinguished from plagiarism by themes of covering, pastiche (tribute), or parody, but sometimes inviting copyright disputes).

Noun

soundalike (plural soundalikes)

  1. A music recording with this trait. (Often distinguished from plagiarism by themes of covering, pastiche (tribute), or parody, but sometimes inviting copyright disputes).
    • See chapter 5, section 2.1 regarding soundalike cases. With respect to the copyright in the sound recording, however, it would not be infringement...1994, Thomas J Smedinghoff, The Software Publishers Association Legal Guide to Multimedia
    • In recent years there has been an increase in the number of soundalike recordings...2007, M William Krasilovsky, Sidney Shemel, John M Gross, Jonathan Feinstein, This Business of Music
  2. A word that is either homophonous or sounds similar enough to another that confusion of the two is known to happen.
    • Tall-man lettering is sometimes used to reduce risk around soundalikes and lookalikes [medication names].
    • Somewhat more problematic for a theory of written transmission are errors where a word is replaced not by a synonym but by a soundalike.2003, Nick Nicholas, George Baloglou, An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds: Translation and Commentary

Forms of soundalike

pluralsoundalikes

Origin of soundalike

From sound + alike, perhaps modelled on lookalike.

Questions about soundalike

What does soundalike mean?
Soundalike means a music recording with this trait. (Often distinguished from plagiarism by themes of covering, pastiche (tribute), or parody, but sometimes inviting copyright disputes).
What part of speech is soundalike?
Soundalike is a noun.
What is the plural of soundalike?
The plural of soundalike is soundalikes.

Words near soundalike in the dictionary

  1. sound-tracks
  2. sounda
  3. soundable
  4. soundage
  5. soundages
  6. soundalike
  7. soundalikes
  8. soundbank
  9. soundbanks
  10. soundbar
  11. soundbars

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