Meaning of SOUNDING
| Pronunciation: | | 'sawnding
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- [n] the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line)
- [n] a measure of the depth of water taken by sounding
- [adj] making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form; "harsh-sounding"
- [adj] having volume or depth; "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal"; "the sounding cataract haunted me like a passion"- Wordsworth
- [adj] appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms; "left their clothes dirty looking"; "a most disagreeable looking character"; "angry-looking"; "liquid-looking"; "severe-looking policemen on noble horses"; "fine-sounding phrases"; "taken in by high-sounding talk"
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| | Synonyms: | | audible, full, hearable, looking, superficial |
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| | See Also: | | depth, measure, measurement, measuring, mensuration | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Sound"ing\, a.
Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding
words. --Dryden.
\Sound"ing\, n.
1. The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the
senses of the several verbs).
2. (Naut.) [From {Sound} to fathom.]
(a) measurement by sounding; also, the depth so
ascertained.
(b) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where
a sounding line will reach the bottom; -- usually in
the plural.
(c) The sand, shells, or the like, that are brought up by
the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.
{Sounding lead}, the plummet at the end of a sounding line.
{Sounding line}, a line having a plummet at the end, used in
making soundings.
{Sounding post} (Mus.), a small post in a violin,
violoncello, or similar instrument, set under the bridge
as a support, for propagating the sounds to the body of
the instrument; -- called also {sound post}.
{Sounding rod} (Naut.), a rod used to ascertain the depth of
water in a ship's hold.
{In soundings}, within the eighty-fathom line. --Ham. Nav.
Encyc.
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