Causing or producing sound; sonorous; resounding; making a noise.

Having a magnificent or lofty sound; hence, bombastic: as, mere sounding phrases.

noun. The act of producing a sound or a noise; also, a sound or a noise produced; specifically, in music, compare sounds, intransitive verb, 2.

noun. In astronomy, the investigation of the probable distance of the boundaries of the stellar universe by enumerating the number of stars visible in different regions in the field of a given telescope or on a photographic plate.

noun. The act or process of measuring the depth of anything; exploration, as with a plummet and line, or a sound.

noun. The descent of a whale or of a fish to the bottom after being harpooned or hooked.

noun. plural The depth of water in rivers, harbors, along shores, and even in the open seas, which is ascertained in the operation of sounding.

noun. In comparatively shoal water: said of a whale in the Arctic Ocean. Bering Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, or in bays, lagoons, etc., whose depths may be readily fathomed.

adjective. Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous.

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

noun. undefined

noun. measurement by sounding; also, the depth so ascertained.

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

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

noun. the plummet at the end of a sounding line.

noun. a line having a plummet at the end, used in making soundings.

noun. a small post in a violin, violoncello, or similar instrument, set under the bridge as a support, for propagating the sounds to the body of the instrument; -- called also sound post.

noun. a rod used to ascertain the depth of water in a ship's hold.

noun. within the eighty-fathom line.

noun. The action of the verb to sound.

noun. Testing with a probe or sonde.

noun. A measured depth of water.

noun. The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes

noun. Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom.

noun. The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.

adjective. Emitting a sound.

verb. Present participle of sound.

noun. the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line)

adjective. appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms

adjective. making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form

noun. a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line

adjective. having volume or deepness

silence  

bombastic  off soundings  on soundings  pneumatic sounding-apparatus  pretentious  

audible  full  hearable  superficial  

deepness  depth  measure  measurement  measuring  

abounding  astounding  bounding  compounding  confounding  

explorations  heh  shoal  

bathometry  bathymetry  booming  chiming  depth sounding  

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