sounding
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
sounding (plural soundings)
- The action of the verb to sound.
- And thus did the trumpets sound one-and-twenty blasts every day; […] three soundings at the three pausings of the music, […]
sounding (not comparable)
- Emitting a sound.
- The sounding bell woke me up.
- Sonorous.
- sounding words
- In her tomb by the sounding sea.
- present participle of sound#English|sound
- Little Mary was sounding very sleepy, so I tucked her in bed.
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 […]
- 2020 June 25, National Weather Service Boston 9:52 AM forecast discussion:
- Morning sounding at Chatham showed dry adiabatic lapse rate all the way to 700 mb this morning […]
- 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.
- Spanish Ladies, naval song, chorus
- We'll rant and we'll roar across the salt seas; Until we strike soundings in the Channel of old England
- Spanish Ladies, naval song, chorus
- The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.
- German: Sondierung
- Portuguese: sondagem
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