Sounding
['saʊndɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line).
(noun.) a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line.
(adj.) making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form; 'harsh-sounding' .
(adj.) having volume or deepness; 'sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal'; 'the sounding cataract haunted me like a passion'- Wordsworth .
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sound
(a.) Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words.
(n.) The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs).
(n.) measurement by sounding; also, the depth so ascertained.
(n.) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom; -- usually in the plural.
(n.) The sand, shells, or the like, that are brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.
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Examples
- While the disturbance which travels out from a sounding body is commonly called a wave, it is by no means like the type of wave best known to us, namely, the water wave. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Sounding Mr. Cruncher, and finding him of her opinion, Miss Pross resorted to the Good Republican Brutus of Antiquity, attended by her cavalier. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture in the hope of finding them. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Robert Jordan heard the ax sounding in the woods behind him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I was dumb when she leaned beside the harp again, playing it, but not sounding it, with her right hand. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- If a light cork ball on the end of a thread is brought in contact with a sounding fork, the ball does not remain at rest, but vibrates back and forth, being driven by the moving prongs. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He hit the book a sounding blow with his open hand, and struck out of it a stronger smell of stale tobacco than ever. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The shouting and the noise continued, sounding horrid through the dusk, over the surface of the water. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The palm of Silas Wegg descends with a sounding smack upon the palm of Venus, and Wegg lavishly exclaims, 'Twin in opinion equally with feeling! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I am confident that all the drums and trumpets of a royal army, beating and sounding together just at your ears, could not equal it. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- If the period of any one of the objects corresponds with the period of the sounding body, the gentle but frequent impulses affect the object, which responds by emitting a sound. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- A piano comprises five principal parts: first, the framing; second, the sounding board; third, the stringing; fourth, the key mechanism, or action, and fifth, the ornamental case. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The pulses created in the air by a sounding body are received by the ear and the impulses which they impart to the auditory nerve pass to the brain and we become conscious of a sound. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The waves sent out by a sounding body fall upon all surrounding objects and by their repeated action tend to throw these bodies into vibration. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Less direct minds would have found high-sounding ethical sanctions in which to conceal the real intent. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This he was used to, and could take soundings of. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It being necessary to take soundings every minute, and to feel the way with the greatest caution, Mr Wegg's attention was fully employed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- If the soundings show the following depths: 30, 25, 20, 32, 28, the average depth could be taken as 30 + 25 + 20 + 32 + 28 ÷ 5, or 27 feet. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In the morning it was found by our soundings, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- We were several times chased in our passage, but outsailed everything; and in thirty days had soundings. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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