soundboard
soundboard noun: a wide, flat board placed within, or forming part of the body of, a musical instrument in order to improve vibrations and increase volume.
Noun
soundboard (plural soundboards)
- A wide, flat board placed within, or forming part of the body of, a musical instrument in order to improve vibrations and increase volume.
- To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- A mixing console used to combine and blend different audio sources to a single output.
- A sounding board.
- Then, as now, they spent their days walking around the city they love, frequenting favorite restaurants or cooking meals at home, and serving as each other’s creative soundboard.2008 February 3, Molly Reid, “Sean Yseult and Chris Lee”, in New York Times
- A control panel offering playback of various sound effects.
- Check out these celebrity soundboards and play prank phone calls on your friends, family, and co workers...2007, starmuscle@gmail.com, “Celebrity Soundboards”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet)
Forms of soundboard
| plural | soundboards |
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Origin of soundboard
From sound + board.
Questions about soundboard
- What does soundboard mean?
- Soundboard means a wide, flat board placed within, or forming part of the body of, a musical instrument in order to improve vibrations and increase volume.
- What part of speech is soundboard?
- Soundboard is a noun.
- What is the plural of soundboard?
- The plural of soundboard is soundboards.
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