Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or producing random noise accompanying transmitted or recorded sound.
- adjective Relating to or producing static electricity.
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- adjective Resembling or containing
static
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Examples
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So I have been deaf in one ear with a sort of "staticky" sound, for about a year now and have recently had an MRI examination.
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Ellie and her classmates showed up a few minutes later, sliding in on socks, their hair staticky and charged.
The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011
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On a small white Formica table, a portable radio pumped out staticky oldies.
Forever Lost Franklin W. Dixon 2011
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On a small white Formica table, a portable radio pumped out staticky oldies.
Forever Lost Franklin W. Dixon 2011
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The radio that Chloe must have brought in still sat on the bedside table, playing staticky oldies, and a magazine—Popular Science—was open on a plastic chair, where I imagined Chloe had been reading it to me.
Forever Lost Franklin W. Dixon 2011
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Tara heard the staticky sound of the Pythia exhaling smoke over the receiver.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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It doesn't fall neatly into the "rocker" or "mid-tempo" categories; Stipe delivers speedy spoken word over staticky soundscapes as Smith adds to the drama.
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Ellie and her classmates showed up a few minutes later, sliding in on socks, their hair staticky and charged.
The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011
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It doesn't fall neatly into the "rocker" or "mid-tempo" categories; Stipe delivers speedy spoken word over staticky soundscapes as Smith adds to the drama.
Album review: R.E.M.'s 'Collapse Into Now' is settled into familiar formula 2011
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Where we left off with the BBCA series was a wrenching, traumatic cliffhanger in which friendly ghost Annie Lorena Crichlow, so much more appealing than her Syfy counterpart is trapped in purgatory, reaching out to her friends through staticky TV screens as she pitiably weeps in a sinister waiting room and anxiously waits for whatever comes next.
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