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English Dictionary: sounding	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for sounding
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sounding adj 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" Synonym(s): looking, sounding having volume or deepness; "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal"; "the sounding cataract haunted me like a passion"- Wordsworth making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form; "harsh-sounding" n a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. 2. Fig.: To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe. I was in jest, And by that offer meant to sound your breast. --Dryden. I've sounded my Numidians man by man. --Addison. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sounding \Sound"ing\, a. Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sounding \Sound"ing\, n. 1. The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs). 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. {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.