Crossword clues for sounding
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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).]
To measure the depth of; to fathom; especially, to ascertain the depth of by means of a line and plummet.
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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. (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.
Sounding \Sound"ing\, a.
Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding
words.
--Dryden.
Sounding \Sound"ing\, n.
The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs).
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(Naut.) [From Sound to fathom.]
measurement by sounding; also, the depth so ascertained.
Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom; -- usually in the plural.
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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.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
1 emit a sound. 2 sonorous n. The action of the verb '''to sound'''. v
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(present participle of sound English) Etymology 2
n. 1 Test made with a probe or sonde. 2 A measured depth of water. 3 The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes 4 (context chiefly in the plural English) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom. 5 The sand, shells, et
brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.
WordNet
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" [syn: looking]
having volume or depth; "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 by sounding
the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line)
Wikipedia
Sounding generally refers to a mechanism of probing the environment by sending out some kind of stimulus.
Sounding or soundings may refer to:
- Soundings (journal), an academic journal of leftist political thinking
- "Soundings" (radio drama), science fiction radio drama series produced from 1985 to 1989 in Ottawa
- Whale sounding, the act of diving by whales
Usage examples of "sounding".
Closer, however, to our purpose is the leadership taken by the new federal judiciary in asserting the availability against predatory state legislation of extra-constitutional principles sounding in Natural Law.
As soon as he saw me recognised as a mistress, he paid assiduous court to me, never losing an opportunity of everywhere sounding my praise.
The barrers in Petticoat Lane, iron wheels sounding like tumbling coal on the street stones.
Damien murmured, sounding like a stock character from a blaxploitation film.
No quiet gong sounding the advent of a Maiden, no warning brangle of alarm bells, no roar of tarfire from the pot over the door.
After the others on guard had taken their dippings from the tea bucket, Brigg bore it across the parade ground, around the hockey goalposts, and up the sounding stairs to the middle floor of Barrack Block Two.
The scale length, body configuration, and octave range of litirs vary greatly, the inclusion into this class of instrument being determined by the presence of a soft-wood sounding board joined to an extended neck from whose tip strings of metal, web, or gut are stretched.
Malebolge and still make it a great sounding title but would read it instead as Malebolge in which case it sounds idiotic.
Chanting voices from far within melled with the hum of wind-stirred leaves and the incoming tide, sounding like the mumble of a dream.
I could almost wish it might either cure or kill me, for I am weary of lying here like an ox dying of the murrain, when tambours are beating, horses stamping, and trumpets sounding without.
Lawyer Paravant had received out of transcendency a sounding slap on the cheek, and had countered with scientific alacrity, yes, had even eagerly turned the other cheek, heedless of his quality as gentleman, jurist, and one-time member of a duelling corps, all of which would have constrained him to quite a different line of conduct had the blow been of terrestrial origin.
In that dead, pulseless silence he could distinctly hear the distant voices of Levi and his companion, sounding loud and resonant in the hollow of the woods.
Reveler and Sweetie Pie were my sounding boards as I came to the conclusion that I was falling in love with Scott.
Vanyel found his own voice sounding incredibly calm considering the pain of past memories, and the ache for this unchildlike child.
I have mentioned elsewhere in this book, spirit communications conveyed through mediums often turn out sounding simple, silly or unconvincing to anyone other than the person who is receiving the messages.