Definition of sounding

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Sounding (n.) The sand, shells, or the like, that are brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom..

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Intonation :: Intonation (n.) The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.
Plummet :: Plummet (n.) A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water..
Euphonious :: Euphonious (a.) Pleasing or sweet in sound; euphonic; smooth-sounding.
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.
Halsening :: Halsening (a.) Sounding harshly in the throat; inharmonious; rough.
Sound-board :: Sound-board (n.) A sounding-board.
Whack :: Whack (n.) A smart resounding blow.
Cacophonious :: Cacophonious (a.) Harsh-sounding.
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..
Resonance :: Resonance (n.) The act of resounding; the quality or state of being resonant.
Horrisonous :: Horrisonous (a.) Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound.
Liquid :: Liquid (a.) Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
Resounding :: Resounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resoun.
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..
Phonomotor :: Phonomotor (n.) An instrument in which motion is produced by the vibrations of a sounding body.
Altisonant :: Altisonant (a.) High-sounding; lofty or pompous.
High-sounding :: High-sounding (a.) Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles..
Altiloquent :: Altiloquent (a.) High-sounding; pompous in speech.
Bathometer :: Bathometer (n.) An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line..
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.
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