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Sounding
Definitions
- 1 Emitting a sound. not-comparable
"The sounding bell woke me up."
- 2 Sonorous. not-comparable
"sounding words"
- 1 making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form wordnet
- 2 having volume or deepness wordnet
- 3 appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms wordnet
- 1 The action of the verb to sound.
"And thus did the trumpets sound one-and-twenty blasts every day; […] three soundings at the three pausings of the music, […]"
- 2 A test made with a probe or sonde. countable, uncountable
"Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment […]"
- 3 the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line) wordnet
- 4 A measured depth of water. countable, uncountable
"The sailor took a sounding every five minutes"
- 5 a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line wordnet
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- 6 Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom. countable, in-plural, uncountable
"We'll rant and we'll roar across the salt seas; Until we strike soundings in the Channel of old England"
- 7 The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom. countable, uncountable
- 8 The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes.(See urethral sounding). countable, uncountable
- 1 present participle and gerund of sound form-of, gerund, participle, present
"Little Mary was sounding very sleepy, so I tucked her in bed."
Etymology
From sound (“produce a sound”) + -ing.
From sound (“produce a sound”) + -ing.
From sound (“produce a sound”) + -ing.
From sound (“examine with the instrument called a sound, or by auscultation or percussion”) + -ing.
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