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sounding

1

[ soun-ding ]

adjective

, Archaic.
  1. emitting or producing a sound or sounds.
  2. resounding or sonorous.
  3. having an imposing sound; high-sounding; pompous.


noun

  1. a verbal contest or confrontation, as among teenage boys or street-gang members, in which the trading of often elaborate insults and invective takes the place of physical violence.

sounding

2

[ soun-ding ]

noun

  1. Often soundings. the act of measuring the depth of an area of water with or as if with a lead and line.
  2. soundings,
    1. an area of water that can be sounded with an ordinary lead and line, the depth being 100 fathoms (180 meters) or less.
    2. the results or measurement obtained by sounding with a lead and line.
  3. Meteorology. any vertical penetration of the atmosphere for scientific measurement, especially a radiosonde observation.

sounding

1

/ ˈsaʊndɪŋ /

adjective

  1. resounding; resonant
  2. having an imposing sound and little content; pompous

    sounding phrases



sounding

2

/ ˈsaʊndɪŋ /

noun

  1. sometimes plural the act or process of measuring depth of water or examining the bottom of a river, lake, etc, as with a sounding line
  2. an observation or measurement of atmospheric conditions, as made using a radiosonde or rocketsonde
  3. often plural measurements taken by sounding
  4. plural a place where a sounding line will reach the bottom, esp less than 100 fathoms in depth
  5. on soundings
    on soundings in waters less than 100 fathoms in depth
  6. off soundings
    off soundings in waters more than 100 fathoms in depth

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Derived Forms

  • ˈsoundingly, adverb

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Other Words From

  • sounding·ly adverb
  • sounding·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of sounding1

First recorded in 1275–1325; Middle English; sound 1 + -ing 2

Origin of sounding2

First recorded 1300–50; Middle English; sound 3, -ing 1

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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. off soundings, Nautical. in waters beyond the 100-fathom (180-meter) depth.
  2. on soundings, Nautical. in waters less than 100 fathoms (180 meters) deep, so that the lead can be used.

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Example Sentences

They simply feed some text into the voice engine, and out will spool a crisp audio clip of a natural-sounding performance.

One of my favorite extension offerings is the boring-sounding but infinitely practical fact sheet.

Answering even seemingly basic sounding questions with existing IT, if you don’t have Expanse or ASM, is actually surprisingly hard.

So you can listen as local radio host George Fisher plays a rather modern-sounding, red-carpet narrator during an unauthorized live broadcast of the 11th Academy Awards banquet, held in February 1939 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

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To make a map, she first translated the echo soundings gathered by ships crossing the ocean into depths and then created two-dimensional vertical slices of the terrain beneath the ships’ tracks.

The advisor would cite reasonable-sounding sources like haltabuse.org and the FBI.

Brown was still sounding the alarm about one particular firm, Booz Allen Hamilton, when he was arrested on September 12, 2012.

He's dazzling, fielding questions, spinning out anecdotes and limericks, sounding 35 and hungry for publicity.

When the ship hit the rocks, the sound of bells ringing and alarms sounding echoed in the theater.

His papier-mâché characters are either sounding boards or set dressing.

Nevertheless Monsieur de Biancourt was always on his guard, and often sent the boat on ahead with the sounding-lead.

On the 11th of May, the sounding lead was cast, and bottom was found at 80b fathoms; a sign that they were upon the Codfish Banks.

Pausing at the threshold before opening the door, the sonorous mumble sounding through the deal panels misled me.

“He hath told us already, Princess,” said the other, his harsh accents sounding more like the snarl of a wolf than a human voice.

The simplest form was the Doublette sounding the 15th and 22nd (the double and treble octave) of the note struck.

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