(banking, finance) Money which is stable and not subject to sudden appreciation or depreciation. / (banking, finance) Any currency which is based on or redeemable in gold.

A sound in the southern Solomon Islands.

(computing) A communication protocol among computers and multimedia devices, such as sound synthesizers, which is optimized for modern networking technology.

(music) An expressively emotional, powerful and earthy style of musical expression associated mainly with bluegrass, old-time and country music, characterized by unmetered music and use of gapped scales in singing.

(music) A genre of psychedelic rock associated with the hippie subculture of San Francisco in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

A district of Ontario, Canada.

noisy, opinionated people are often ignorant.

(idiomatic, usually derogatory) To talk a lot.

(idiomatic, impolite) Said to dismiss what the interlocutor is saying.

An acoustic environment, a virtual/emotional environment created using sound. / An electroacoustic musical composition creating a sound portrait of a sound environment.