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Sounding   /sˈaʊndɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Sounding  n.  
1.
The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs).
2.
(Naut.)
(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.


verb
Sound  v. t.  (past & past part. sounded; pres. part. sounding)  
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." "I've sounded my Numidians man by man."
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.


Sound  v. t.  
1.
To cause to make a noise; to play on; as, to sound a trumpet or a horn; to sound an alarm. "A bagpipe well could he play and soun(d)."
2.
To cause to exit as a sound; as, to sound a note with the voice, or on an instrument.
3.
To order, direct, indicate, or proclain by a sound, or sounds; to give a signal for by a certain sound; as, to sound a retreat; to sound a parley. "The clock sounded the hour of noon."
4.
To celebrate or honor by sounds; to cause to be reported; to publish or proclaim; as, to sound the praises of fame of a great man or a great exploit.
5.
To examine the condition of (anything) by causing the same to emit sounds and noting their character; as, to sound a piece of timber; to sound a vase; to sound the lungs of a patient.
6.
To signify; to import; to denote. (Obs.) "Soun(d)ing alway the increase of his winning."


Sound  v. i.  To ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device. "I sound as a shipman soundeth in the sea with his plummet to know the depth of sea."


Sound  v. i.  
1.
To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a perceptible effect. "And first taught speaking trumpets how to sound." "How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues!"
2.
To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound. "From you sounded out the word of the Lord."
3.
To make or convey a certain impression, or to have a certain import, when heard; hence, to seem; to appear; as, this reproof sounds harsh; the story sounds like an invention. "Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear Things that do sound so fair?"
To sound in or To sound into, to tend to; to partake of the nature of; to be consonant with. (Obs., except in the phrase To sound in damages, below.) "Soun(d)ing in moral virtue was his speech."
To sound in damages (Law), to have the essential quality of damages. This is said of an action brought, not for the recovery of a specific thing, as replevin, etc., but for damages only, as trespass, and the like.


adjective
Sounding  adj.  Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words.





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"Sounding" Quotes from Famous Books



... canoes on Lake Itasca, the search for its feeders and the finding of one larger than the others which the Indian guides said flowed from another lake to the south of it; the passage of the canoes up this feeder and the entrance of the explorers upon a beautiful lake which they ascertained by sounding and measurement to be wider and deeper than Itasca, and the veritable source of the Great River; all this is succinctly told in the following letter of the leader of the expedition, and we respectfully commend ...
— Sword and Pen - Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier • John Algernon Owens
... glory; she could see that their heads were crowned with jewels; and she heard their voices, which were sweet and mild. She did not distinguish their arms or limbs. She heard them more frequently than she saw them; and the usual time when she heard them was when the church bells were sounding for prayer. And if she was in the woods when she heard them, she could plainly distinguish their voices drawing near to her. When she thought that she discerned the heavenly voices, she knelt down, and bowed herself to the ground. Their presence gladdened her even to tears, and after ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various
... of the Middle Ground, and forcing his way up the narrow channel in front of the shallows, repeat on the anchored batteries and battleships of the Danes the exploit of the Nile. He spent the nights of March 30 and 31 sounding the channel, being himself, in spite of fog and ice, in the boat nearly the whole of these two bitter nights. On April 1 the fleet came slowly up the Dutch Deep, and dropped anchor at night about two miles from the southern extremity ...
— Deeds that Won the Empire - Historic Battle Scenes • W. H. Fitchett
... inappropriate; and these we have been very fond of repeating. In California, New Mexico, Texas, Florida, and the Louisiana purchase, we bought our names along with the land. Fine old French and Spanish ones they are; some thirty of them names of Saints, all well-sounding and pleasant to the ear. And there is a value in these names not at first perceptible. Most of them serve to mark the day of the year upon which the town was founded. They are commemorative dates, which one need only look at the calendar to verify. As an instance of this, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 30, April, 1860 • Various
... his tongue and regarded me with sneering thoughtfulness. I am sure he was no more surprised than was I by the immediateness of what followed. My fist went out like an arrow from a released bow, and Tom Spink staggered back, tripped against the corner of the tarpaulin-covered sounding-machine, and sprawled on the deck. He tried to make a fight of it, but I followed him up, giving him no chance to set himself or recover from the surprise of my ...
— The Mutiny of the Elsinore • Jack London


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