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# audio

«audio» in Mova's school dictionary: **sound, especially recorded or broadcast sound** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (audio — uncountable); adjective (audio)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Audio means sound, especially recorded or broadcast sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/audio/#m1)

2) As an adjective, audio means to do with sound, as in «an audio book», «audio equipment». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/audio/#m2)

3) In computing, audio is the sound part of a video or a file. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/audio/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In computing and media lessons (audio files, recording podcasts), in everyday life (audiobooks, audio guides in museums); phrases: audio file, audiobook, audio guide, audio description.

### examples

- The audio on the video was too quiet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/audio/#x1)
- I listen to audiobooks on long car trips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/audio/#x2)
- We recorded an audio file of our poem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/audio/#x3)
- The museum had an audio guide in five languages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/audio/#x4)
- Check that the audio cable is plugged in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/audio/#x5)
- The audio and the picture were out of sync. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/audio/#x6)

### note

Uncountable: «the audio», not «an audio». From Latin «I hear», like «audience» and «audition». Opposite in media: «video» (picture).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «audio» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/audio/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.