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"

1 a measure of the depth of water taken by sounding

2 the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line)

English

Pronunciation

• italbrac UK: /ˈsaʊndɪŋ/, /"saUndIN/
• italbrac US: , /ˈsoʊndɪŋ/, /"soUndIN/

• Rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ

Noun

1. The action of the verb to sound

   The sounding of the bells woke me from sleep

2. A measured depth of water

   The sailor took a sounding every five minutes

3. The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for sexual pleasure

Adjective

1. Emitting a sound

   The sounding bell woke me up.

Verb

sounding

1. present participle of sound

   Little Mary was sounding very sleepy, so I tucked her in bed.

Sounding can refer to:

• Determination of the depth of water usually in the sea. Originally using a weighted line called a lead line, more recently using
  • Echo sounding
• Whale sounding, the act of diving by whales
• an atmospheric sounding
• various methods in telecommunications
  • Ionospheric sounding
  • Automatic sounding
  • Automatic link establishment
• Urethral sounding in medicine
• various methods in geophysics:
  • vertical electrical sounding (VES), see Schlumberger brothers
  • electromagnetic sounding
• sounding rockets which take measurements during suborbital flight
• the present participle of sound

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