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/sˈaʊndɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Sounding n.

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

(Naut.)

(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.

adjective

Sounding adj. Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sounding" Quotes from Famous Books

... would of been scared myself if I'd a-been ketched that-a-way like Henry was, and the perfessor's voice sounding like you was chopping ice every time he spoke. I seen the perfessor didn't want to have no blood on the carpet without he had to have it, but I seen he was making up his mind about something, too. ...

— Danny's Own Story • Don Marquis

... fellow-subjects who are natives of Great Britain. If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representative where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves?" Very formidable questions, couched in high-sounding phrases, and representing well enough in form and in substance the state of mind of colonial assemblies in the summer of 1764 in respect to the Sugar Act and the ...

— The Eve of the Revolution - A Chronicle of the Breach with England, Volume 11 In The - Chronicles Of America Series • Carl Becker

... involuntary movement towards her, then, checked himself abruptly and stood looking down at her in silence. From the ball-room there floated out the strains of the latest fox-trot, sounding curiously cheap and tawdry as they cut across the deep, almost solemn intensity that prevailed in the quiet room where a man had just stripped his soul naked to the eyes of the woman he loved and now stood as ...

— The Vision of Desire • Margaret Pedler

... everything pass off pleasantly, invited guests will bring or send their own strawberries and cream, which I shall be happy to sell to them at a slight advance. There are a great many improvements which the garden needs; among them a sounding-board, so that the neighbors' children can hear when I tell them to get a little farther off from the currant-bushes. I should also like a selection from the ten commandments, in big letters, posted up conspicuously, ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... he got up early and slipped out of the town. All day long he would stroll in the great pine-woods or lie on the dunes by the shore, with the murmur of the sea sounding through his half- slumber. He ate like a dog whatever he could get that was eatable, without particularly thinking of what it consisted. The glitter of the sun on the water, and the poignant scent of the pine-trees, and the first rising of the sluggish sap which came with ...

— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo

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