Sounding

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.

Compare sounding with other words:

pounding vs. sounding

mounding vs. sounding

ounding vs. sounding

hounding vs. sounding

bounding vs. sounding

sounding vs. wounding

founding vs. sounding

rounding vs. sounding

mobile vs. sounding

content vs. sounding

audible vs. sounding

reveille vs. sounding

sounding vs. tintinnabular

sounder vs. sounding

arming vs. sounding

saccade vs. sounding

rouse vs. sounding

raucous vs. sounding

euphonious vs. sounding

shell vs. sounding

sonorous vs. sounding

sand vs. sounding

ocean vs. sounding

sounding vs. water

sounding vs. urethra

depth vs. sounding

measured vs. sounding

probe vs. sounding

sonde vs. sounding

sound vs. sounding

discordant vs. sounding

fathom vs. sounding

lead vs. sounding