sone
- n a unit of perceived loudness equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz tone at 40 dB above threshold
- Opposite In creating his most celebrated character, Harry Angstrom, Updike (picture with his sone in 1966) imagined a person unlike himself.
- A third type, called "oat-cell" or undifferentiated, occurs in men whose adrenal glands put out an excess of corti sone-type hormones.
- I be sone sayin' me piece, now, engage away me buckos, bu' I be reservin' th' ri' t' call "go f yerself" at it when I be seein' it.