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  2. Sounding board - Wikipedia

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    The term “sounding board” is also used figuratively to describe a person who listens to a speech or proposal in order that the speaker may rehearse or explore the proposition more fully. [2] The term is also used inter-personally to describe one person listening to another, and especially to their ideas.

  3. Buzzer - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, a relay may be connected to interrupt its own actuating current, causing the contacts to buzz (the contacts buzz at line frequency if powered by alternating current) Often these units were anchored to a wall or ceiling to use it as a sounding board. The word "buzzer" comes from the rasping noise that electromechanical buzzers made.

  4. Soundboard - Wikipedia

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    Sounding board, an attachment to a pulpit to assist a human speaker; Mixing console, used to combine electronic audio signals; Soundboard (computer program), a web application or computer program with buttons that play short, often humorous sound clips; Soundboard, a quarterly publication of the Guitar Foundation of America

  5. Foley (filmmaking) - Wikipedia

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    A Foley artist is the person who creates this sound art. Foley artists use creativity to make viewers believe that the sound effects are actually real. The viewers should not be able to realize that the sound was not actually part of the filming process itself. Foley sounds are added to the film in post-production after the film has been shot. [7]

  6. Sound board (music) - Wikipedia

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    Through this process, an alternating series of compression and rarefaction pulses travel away from the soundboard, creating sound waves. [5] The soundboard operates by the principle of forced vibration. The string gently vibrates the board, and despite their differences in size and composition, makes the board vibrate at exactly the same frequency.

  7. Sound box - Wikipedia

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    The distinctive sound of an instrument with a sound box owes a lot to the alteration made to the tone. A sound box is found in most string instruments. [2] The most notable exceptions are some electrically amplified instruments like the solid body electric guitar or the electric violin, and the piano which uses only a sound board instead.

  8. State Department Sounding Board - Wikipedia

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    The Sounding Board was an internal platform (discussion forum) for State Department employees to exchange ideas, while DipNote [5] is the Secretary of State's blog on the internet. The use of social media was seen as essential for 21st century diplomacy. The Department of State was "integrating social media into the job descriptions of all the ...

  9. Why billionaire Brad Jacobs loves going public - AOL

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    It motivates them to work harder. Customers like the transparency of being on this, on the big board. ... on the big board. It gives us more credibility and it allows us to attract a broad range ...