Sounding

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of one that sounds.
  • n. A probe of the environment for scientific observation.
  • n. A measured depth of water.
  • n. Water shallow enough for depth measurements to be taken by a hand line. Often used in the plural.
  • adj. Emitting a full sound; resonant.
  • adj. Noisy but with little significance.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The action of the verb to sound.
  • n. Testing with a probe or sonde.
  • n. A measured depth of water.
  • n. The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes
  • n. Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom.
  • n. The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.
  • adj. Emitting a sound.
  • v. Present participle of sound.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous.
  • n. The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs).
  • n.
  • n. measurement by sounding; also, the depth so ascertained.
  • n. Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom; -- usually in the plural.
  • n. The sand, shells, or the like, that are brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act or process of measuring the depth of anything; exploration, as with a plummet and line, or a sound.
  • n. The descent of a whale or of a fish to the bottom after being harpooned or hooked.
  • n. plural The depth of water in rivers, harbors, along shores, and even in the open seas, which is ascertained in the operation of sounding.
  • n. In comparatively shoal water: said of a whale in the Arctic Ocean. Bering Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, or in bays, lagoons, etc., whose depths may be readily fathomed.
  • n. The act of producing a sound or a noise; also, a sound or a noise produced; specifically, in music, compare sounds, intransitive verb, 2.
  • Causing or producing sound; sonorous; resounding; making a noise.
  • Having a magnificent or lofty sound; hence, bombastic: as, mere sounding phrases.
  • n. In astronomy, the investigation of the probable distance of the boundaries of the stellar universe by enumerating the number of stars visible in different regions in the field of a given telescope or on a photographic plate.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line)
  • adj. appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms
  • adj. making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form
  • n. a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line
  • adj. having volume or deepness
    • Equivalent
    superficial    hearable    audible    full   
    Antonym
    silence   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    measure    mensuration    measurement    measuring    deepness   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    sonation    sonifaction   
    Verb Stem
    sound   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    abounding    astounding    bounding    compounding    confounding   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    shoal    heh    explorations   
     
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