A Topical Dictionary: Search for sounding

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English

Pronunciation

: IPA: /ˈsaʊndɪŋ/,
: , IPA: /ˈsoʊndɪŋ/,

:* Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-aʊndɪŋ|-aʊndɪŋ

Noun

The action of the verb to sound
: The sounding of the bells woke me from sleep
A measured depth of water
: The sailor took a sounding every five minutes
The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for sexual pleasure

Adjective

Emitting a sound
: The sounding bell woke me up.

Verb

sounding

: Little Mary was sounding very sleepy, so I tucked her in bed.

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Sound \Sound\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sounded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sounding.] [F. sonder; cf. AS. sundgyrd a sounding rod,
sundline a sounding line (see Sound a narrow passage of
water).]
1. To measure the depth of; to fathom; especially, to
ascertain the depth of by means of a line and plummet.
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2. Fig.: To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts,
motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try;
to test; to probe.
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I was in jest,
And by that offer meant to sound your breast.
--Dryden.
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I've sounded my Numidians man by man. --Addison.
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3. (Med.) To explore, as the bladder or urethra, with a
sound; to examine with a sound; also, to examine by
auscultation or percussion; as, to sound a patient.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Sounding \Sound"ing\, a.
Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding
words. --Dryden.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Sounding \Sound"ing\, n.
1. The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the
senses of the several verbs).
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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.
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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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WordNet sounding
adj 1: 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" [syn: looking]
2: having volume or depth; "sounding brass and a tinkling
cymbal"; "the sounding cataract haunted me like a
passion"- Wordsworth
3: making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining
form; "harsh-sounding"
n 1: a measure of the depth of water taken by sounding
2: the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding
line)

Moby Dictionary
bathometry , bathymetry , booming , chiming , depth sounding , dinging ,
droning , echo sounding , echoic , echoing , echolocation , fathomage ,
fathoming , growling , jingling , lingering , monotone , monotonic ,
oceanography , pealing , persistent , reboant , rebounding , reechoing ,
repercussive , resounding , reverberant , reverberating ,
reverberatory , ringing , rumbling , sonar , sonation , soniferous ,
sonification , sonorous , sounded , soundings , thundering , tingling ,
tinkling , tintinnabular , tintinnabulary , tintinnabulous , tolling ,
tonal , toneless , undamped , water