sounding
Contents
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) enPR: soundʹĭng, IPA(key): /ˈsaʊndɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ
Etymology 1[edit]
sound (“produce a sound”) + -ing.
Noun[edit]
sounding (plural soundings)
- The action of the verb to sound.
- John Lightfoot
- And thus did the trumpets sound one-and-twenty blasts every day; […] three soundings at the three pausings of the music, […]
- John Lightfoot
Adjective[edit]
sounding (not comparable)
- Emitting a sound.
- The sounding bell woke me up.
- Sonorous.
- Dryden
- sounding words
- Edgar Allan Poe
- In her tomb by the sounding sea.
- Dryden
Verb[edit]
sounding
- present participle of sound
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Little Mary was sounding very sleepy, so I tucked her in bed.
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Etymology 2[edit]
From sound (“examine with the instrument called a sound, or by auscultation or percussion”) + -ing.
Noun[edit]
sounding (plural soundings)
- Test made with a probe or sonde.
- 2011, John P. Rafferty, Oceans and Oceanography (page 189)
- Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment […]
- 2011, John P. Rafferty, Oceans and Oceanography (page 189)
- 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 medical or sexual purposes
- (chiefly in the plural) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom.
- The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.
Translations[edit]
test made with a probe
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sounding in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)