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1. (adj.) sounding
emitting or producing a sound or sounds.
2. sounding
resounding or sonorous.
3. sounding
high-sounding; pompous.
4. (n.) sounding
Often, soundings. the act of measuring the depth of an area of water with or as if with a lead and line.
5. sounding
soundings,
6. sounding
an area of water that can be sounded with an ordinary lead and line, the depth being 100 fathoms (180 m) or less.
7. sounding
the results or measurement obtained by sounding with a lead and line.
8. sounding
any vertical penetration of the atmosphere for scientific measurement.
Etymology: (1300–50)
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| Definition of 'sounding' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) sounding
a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line
2. (adj) sounding
the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line)
3. (adj) looking, sounding
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"
4. (adj) sounding
having volume or deepness
"sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal"; "the sounding cataract haunted me like a passion"- Wordsworth
5. (adj) sounding
making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form
"harsh-sounding"
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| Definition of 'sounding' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) sounding
making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words
2. (noun) sounding
the act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs)
3. (noun) sounding
measurement by sounding; also, the depth so ascertained
4. (noun) sounding
any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom; -- usually in the plural
5. (noun) sounding
the sand, shells, or the like, that are brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom
6. sounding
of Sound
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Sense: (a) measurement of depth of water etc.
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 Afrikaans: dieplood |
 Arabic: قِياس الأعماق، سَبْر غَوْ |
 Bulgarian: измерване на дълбочина |
 Brazilian: sondagem |
 Czech: měření hloubky |
 German: das Loten |
 Danish: lod |
 Greek: βυθομέτρηση |
 Spanish: sondaje |
 Estonian: loodimine |
 Finnish: luotaus |
 French: sondage |
 Hebrew: מַד עוֹמֶק |
 Hindi: नाप |
 Croatian: mjerenje dubine vode, son |
 Hungarian: (mélység) mérése |
 Indonesian: pendugaan |
 Icelandic: dÿptarmæling |
 Italian: scandagliamento |
 Japanese: 測深 |
 Korean: (물 등의) 깊이 측량 |
 Lithuanian: gylio matavimas |
 Latvian: dziļuma mērīšana |
 Malay: pemeruman |
 Dutch: peiling |
 Norwegian: lodding |
 Polish: sondowanie |
 Persian: عمق آب را پيدا كردن |
 Pashto: د اوبو زورتيا موندل |
 Portuguese: sondagem |
 Romanian: sondaj |
 Russian: измерение глубины |
 Slovak: meranie hĺbky |
 Slovenian: sondiranje |
 Serbian: merenje dubine |
 Swedish: pejling, lodning |
 Thai: การหยั่งความลึกของน้ำ |
 Turkish: su derinliği ölçme, iskan |
 Taiwanese: 水深測量 |
 Ukrainian: промір глибини лотом |
 Urdu: پانی کی گہرائی کی پیمائش |
 Vietnamese: sự dò chiều sâu |
 Chinese: 水深测量 |
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