Definition of sounding

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Sounding (n.) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom; -- usually in the plural..

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Plummet :: Plummet (n.) A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water..
Mark :: Mark (n.) One of the bits of leather or colored bunting which are placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. The unmarked fathoms are called deeps..
Euphonious :: Euphonious (a.) Pleasing or sweet in sound; euphonic; smooth-sounding.
Tubby :: Tubby (a.) Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin..
Booming :: Booming (a.) Rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding.
Armisonous :: Armisonous (a.) Rustling in arms; resounding with arms.
Dissonant :: Dissonant (a.) Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious.
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.
Soniferous :: Soniferous (a.) Sounding; producing sound; conveying sound.
Sounding-board :: Sounding-board (n.) A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments..
Whack :: Whack (n.) A smart resounding blow.
Sounding :: Sounding (n.) measurement by sounding; also, the depth so ascertained..
Sounding :: Sounding (n.) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom; -- usually in the plural..
Homophonous :: Homophonous (a.) Originally, sounding alike; of the same pitch; unisonous; monodic..
Sounding :: Sounding (n.) The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs)..
Horrisonous :: Horrisonous (a.) Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound.
Reboant :: Reboant (a.) Rebellowing; resounding loudly.
High-sounding :: High-sounding (a.) Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles..
Fustian :: Fustian (n.) An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high-sounding words are used,' above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast..
Phonoscope :: Phonoscope (n.) An instrument for producing luminous figures by the vibrations of sounding bodies.
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