The ability to hear a word and to recognise the separate sounds that make it up.

He drew out the word into three separate sounds.

Many foreigners tend to sound out the t and h as separate sounds.

He looked ahead where he could distinguish the separate sound of Bart's horse up ahead.

Now, separate sound and lighting technicians are rarely used on spot-news assignments.

There were separate sounds, as the three of them walked, that drowned out the sound.

She could hear the separate sound made by each pounding hoof.

And, if you think, it's made up of the seven million separate sounds of people going their own separate ways.

He identified the rectory's separate sounds, listed them in his memory.

He felt the ripples upon his face and heard their separate sounds as they struck.