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 Definitions for Sounding: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Sounding \Sound"ing\, a.
Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding
words. --Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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 (r) 2.0
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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 Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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49 Moby Thesaurus words for "sounding":
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
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