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Sounding

noun

A measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line.

The act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line).

adjective

Appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms. Synonym: 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"

Having volume or deepness. "The sounding cataract haunted me like a passion"

Making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form.

Sound

verb

(past & past part. sounded; pres. part. sounding)

Appear in a certain way.

Make a certain noise or sound. Synonym: go. "The gun went 'bang'"

Give off a certain sound or sounds.

Announce by means of a sound.

Utter with vibrating vocal chords. Synonyms: vocalise, vocalize, voice.

Cause to sound. "Sound a certain note"

Measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line. Synonym: fathom.

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"Sounding" Quotes from Famous Books

... officer on the watch before Mr. Maudet, found by his reckoning, that we were very near the reef; he was not listened to, though he did his utmost, at least to ascertain our situation by sounding. We have mentioned the names of Messrs. Laperere and Maudet, because if they had been attended to, the Medusa would be ...

— Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816 • J. B. Henry Savigny and Alexander Correard

... came too late. There was an instant's breathless silence, then a far-away, pent- sounding clash, then utter havoc in the crowd: The ropes about the ring were broken over, and a tumultuous tide of people poured across the ring, myself borne on ...

— Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley • James Whitcomb Riley

... view. I must confess the brightness of the weather, the cheerfulness of everything around me, the chiding of the hounds, which was returned upon us in a double echo from two neighbouring hills, with the hallooing of the sportsmen and the sounding of the horn, lifted my spirits into a most lively pleasure, which I freely indulged because I knew it was innocent. If I was under any concern, it was on the account of the poor hare, that was now quite spent ...

— The De Coverley Papers - From 'The Spectator' • Joseph Addison and Others

... ever actually applied that term to Garth in her hearing. They had skirted delicately round it, or wrapped up its meaning in some less harsh-sounding tangle of phrases, and although she had bitterly used the word herself, now that the opprobrious expression publicly confronted her, writ large by some unfriendly hand, she was swept by a sheer fury of ...

— The Hermit of Far End • Margaret Pedler

... her chair, and sat down again in silence. Mr. Clare made for the door before any formal leave-taking could pass between them. "Deep!" he thought to himself, as he looked back at her before he went out; "only eighteen; and too deep for my sounding!" ...

— No Name • Wilkie Collins

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