Sounding

Pronunciation

• GenAm enPR: soundʹĭng, IPA: /ˈsaÊŠndɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -aÊŠndɪŋ

From Middle English sownden, sounen, from Anglo-Norman suner, Old French soner (modern sonner), from Latin sonare

Full definition of sounding

Noun

1. The action of the verb to sound.The sounding of the bells woke me from sleep.
• John LightfootAnd thus did the trumpets sound one-and-twenty blasts every day; ... three soundings at the three pausings of the music, ...

Adjective

1. Emitting a sound.The sounding bell woke me up.
2. sonorous
• Drydensounding words
• Edgar Allan PoeIn her tomb by the sounding sea.

Verb

1. Present participle of sound
   Little Mary was sounding very sleepy, so I tucked her in bed.

Middle English sounden, from Old French sonder, from sonde ("sounding line") of Germanic origin, compare Old English sundgyrd ("a sounding rod"), sundline ("a sounding line"), Old English sund ("water", "sea"). Compare Latin sub ("under") + undāre ("wave").

Noun

1. Test made with a probe or sonde.
• 2011, John P. Rafferty, Oceans and Oceanography (page 189)Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment ...
2. A measured depth of water.The sailor took a sounding every five minutes
3. The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes
4. (chiefly in the plural) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom.
5. The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.

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