'Sounding' definitions:

Definition of 'sounding'

From: WordNet
adjective
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, sounding]
adjective
Having volume or deepness; "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal"; "the sounding cataract haunted me like a passion"- Wordsworth
adjective
Making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form; "harsh-sounding"
noun
A measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line
noun
The act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line)

Definition of 'Sounding'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Fig.: To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe. [1913 Webster]
  • I was in jest, And by that offer meant to sound your breast. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • I've sounded my Numidians man by man. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Sounding'

From: GCIDE
  • Sounding \Sound"ing\, a. Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Sounding'

From: GCIDE
  • Sounding \Sound"ing\, n.
  • 1. The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs). [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'sounding'

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Words containing 'Sounding'