Definition of sounding

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Sounding (n.) The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs)..

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Sonorous :: Sonorous (a.) Impressive in sound; high-sounding.
Sounding-board :: Sounding-board (n.) A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice.
Blatant :: Blatant (a.) Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly..
Buccinal :: Buccinal (a.) Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.
Rant :: Rant (v. i.) To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher..
Resounding :: Resounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resoun.
Retreat :: Retreat (n.) A signal given in the army or navy, by the beat of a drum or the sounding of trumpet or bugle, at sunset (when the roll is called), or for retiring from action..
Armisonous :: Armisonous (a.) Rustling in arms; resounding with arms.
Sound-board :: Sound-board (n.) A sounding-board.
Booming :: Booming (a.) Rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding.
Homophonous :: Homophonous (a.) Originally, sounding alike; of the same pitch; unisonous; monodic..
Unison :: Unison (n.) Sounding alone.
Euphonious :: Euphonious (a.) Pleasing or sweet in sound; euphonic; smooth-sounding.
Whack :: Whack (n.) A smart resounding blow.
Rhotacism :: Rhotacism (n.) An oversounding, or a misuse, of the letter r; specifically (Phylol.), the tendency, exhibited in the Indo-European languages, to change s to r, as wese to were..
Bombast :: Bombast (n.) Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
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.
Dissonant :: Dissonant (a.) Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious.
Hydrography :: Hydrography (n.) That branch of surveying which embraces the determination of the contour of the bottom of a harbor or other sheet of water, the depth of soundings, the position of channels and shoals, with the construction of charts exhibiting these particulars..
Abatvoix :: Abatvoix (n.) The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.
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