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noun Movies.

a mechanism through which film passes in a projector for conversion of the soundtrack into audio-frequency signals that can be amplified and reproduced.

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Also called sound gate .

Origin of sound head

First recorded in 1930–35

Words nearby sound head

soundcard, sound check, sound effect, sounder, sound film, sound head, sound hole, sounding, sounding balloon, sounding board, sounding lead

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Madame Ratignolle, more careful of her complexion, had twined a gauze veil about her head.
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Sol laughed out of his whiskers, with a big, loose-rolling sound, and sat on the porch without waiting to be asked.
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Only in the carnage of the head, the tilt of the chin, was the insolence expressed that had made her many enemies.
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She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor.
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Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.
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British Dictionary definitions for sound head

sound head

noun

the part of a film projector that reproduces the sound in a film

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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