Definition of sounding

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Sounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Soun.

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Euphonious :: Euphonious (a.) Pleasing or sweet in sound; euphonic; smooth-sounding.
High-sounding :: High-sounding (a.) Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles..
Roll :: Roll (n.) To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences..
Sea-green :: Sea-green (a.) Of a beautiful bluish green color, like sea water on soundings..
Slide :: Slide (n.) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.
Resonance :: Resonance (n.) A prolongation or increase of any sound, either by reflection, as in a cavern or apartment the walls of which are not distant enough to return a distinct echo, or by the production of vibrations in other bodies, as a sounding-board, or the bodies of musical instruments..
Loud-mouthed :: Loud-mouthed (a.) Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent.
Sonorous :: Sonorous (a.) Loud-sounding; giving a clear or loud sound; as, a sonorous voice..
Sound :: Sound (v. i.) To ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
Siren :: Siren (n.) An instrument for producing musical tones and for ascertaining the number of sound waves or vibrations per second which produce a note of a given pitch. The sounds are produced by a perforated rotating disk or disks. A form with two disks operated by steam or highly compressed air is used sounding an alarm to vessels in fog.
Sounding-board :: Sounding-board (n.) A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments..
Dissonant :: Dissonant (a.) Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious.
Buccinal :: Buccinal (a.) Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.
Stepped :: Stentorophonic (a.) Speaking or sounding very loud; stentorian.
Semivocal :: Semivocal (a.) Of or pertaining to a semivowel; half cocal; imperfectly sounding.
Sounding :: Sounding (n.) measurement by sounding; also, the depth so ascertained..
Bathometer :: Bathometer (n.) An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line..
Asonant :: Asonant (a.) Not sounding or sounded.
Soundage :: Soundage (n.) Dues for soundings.
Gong :: Gong (n.) An instrument, first used in the East, made of an alloy of copper and tin, shaped like a disk with upturned rim, and producing, when struck, a harsh and resounding noise..
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