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Definition of Sounding

1. Noun. A measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line.

2. Adjective. Appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms. "Taken in by high-sounding talk"

3. Noun. The act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line).

4. Adjective. Having volume or deepness. "The sounding cataract haunted me like a passion"

5. Adjective. Making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form. "Harsh-sounding"

Definition of Sounding

1. a. Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words.

2. n. The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs).

Definition of Sounding

1. Noun. The action of the verb '''to sound''' ¹

2. Noun. Testing with a probe ¹

3. Noun. A measured depth of water ¹

4. Noun. The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes ¹

5. Adjective. Emitting a sound. ¹

6. Verb. (present participle of sound) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sounding

1. a sampling or test of opinions [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sounding

soundboxes soundcard soundcards soundcheck soundchecks soundclash soundclashes sounded sounder sounders

soundest soundeth soundex code soundhole soundholes sounding-board sounding-boards sounding balloon sounding board sounding boards

sounding lead sounding line sounding rocket sounding rod soundingboard soundingly soundings soundless soundlessly

Literary usage of Sounding

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The Harp, point is, that in this instrument the strings are not stretched athwart the sounding-board, but stand perpendicular, or else at an acute angle to ..."

2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1900)
"turned out untrustworthy, and was consequently discarded. Subsequently Mr. Pullar designed the sounding-apparatus shown in Fig. 1, which in his hands has EA ..."

3. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1908)
"ORGANIZATION OF sounding PARTY. — The organization of the sounding party will depend upon the method used in locating the soundings. ..."

4. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1908)
"ORGANIZATION OF sounding PARTY. — The organization of the sounding party will depend upon the method used in locating the soundings. ..."

5. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (2000)
"sounding. W HEN the river is very low, and one's steamboat is “drawing all the water” there ... sounding is done in this way. The boat ties up at the shore, ..."

6. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (2000)
"sounding. WHEN the river is very low, and one's steamboat is "drawing all the water" there ... sounding is done in this way. The boat ties up at the shore, ..."

7. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (1899)
"CHAPTER XII sounding WHEN the river is very low, and one's steamboat is "drawing all the ... sounding is done in this way: The boat ties up at the shore, ..."

8. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"sounding.—During the course of deep-sea exploration, many soundings have been made ... Enough sounding has already been done to indicate that the greatest ..."

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