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  2. Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    3.2 Cannon firing; gunshot; machine gun fire. 3.3 Crash. 3.4 Door or ... 4.3 Car horn honking. 4.4 Clock ... Bodily functions and involuntary sounds. Language Heart ...

  3. List of onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 January 2025. This is a list of onomatopoeias, i.e. words that imitate, resemble, or suggest the source of the sound that they describe. For more information, see the linked articles. Human vocal sounds Achoo, Atishoo, the sound of a sneeze Ahem, a sound made to clear the throat or to draw attention ...

  4. Vehicle horn - Wikipedia

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    Again, these horns can be either single, or arranged in pairs; typical frequencies for a pair are 420–440 Hz and 340–370 Hz (approximately G ♯ 4 –A 4 and F 4 –F ♯ 4) for this design. Diagram showing how a car horn works. A horn grille is a part of some designs of car or other motor vehicle that has an electric horn, such as a motor ...

  5. Long-range acoustic device - Wikipedia

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    A long-range acoustic device (LRAD), acoustic hailing device (AHD) or sound cannon is a specialized loudspeaker that produces sound at high power for communicating at a distance. It has been used as a method of crowd control , which has caused permanent hearing damage , having an extremely high decibel capacity (up to 160 dB measured at one ...

  6. Sound effect - Wikipedia

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    These sounds are used to suggest futuristic technology in a science fiction film, or are used in a musical fashion to create an emotional mood. [2] Each of these sound effect categories is specialized, with sound editors known as specialists in an area of sound effects (e.g. a Car cutter or Guns cutter). Foley is another method of adding sound ...

  7. Garford-Putilov armoured car - Wikipedia

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    With the outbreak of the First World War it became more pressing for Russia to develop domestically produced armoured vehicles and by 19 September 1914 the first unit of the Russian Imperial Army equipped with armoured vehicles was sent to the front – the "First Auto-Mobile Machine Gun Company" which used the fully domestically produced machine gun equipped armoured car the "Russo-Balt type ...

  8. NASA offers explanation for bizarre 'trumpet noise' phenomena

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    Now NASA is stepping in to provide some insight into what could actually be causing this scary pattern. NASA scientists believe the ominous noises could potentially be the "background noise" of ...

  9. Foghorn - Wikipedia

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    Foghorn made with a marine shell, with a hole on its narrowest side An early form of fog signal: the fog bell at Fort Point Light Station, Maine. Audible fog signals have been used in one form or another for hundreds of years, initially simply seashell horns, fog bells or gongs struck manually.