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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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.
Sounding :: Sounding (n.) The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs)..
Sound :: Sound (v. i.) To ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
Fluctisonous :: Fluctisonous (a.) Sounding like waves.
Armisonous :: Armisonous (a.) Rustling in arms; resounding with arms.
Asonant :: Asonant (a.) Not sounding or sounded.
Arming :: Arming (n.) A piece of tallow placed in a cavity at the lower end of a sounding lead, to bring up the sand, shells, etc., of the sea bottom..
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..
Sounding-board :: Sounding-board (n.) A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice.
Liquid :: Liquid (a.) Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
Swashway :: Swashing (a.) Resounding; crushing.
Fathom :: Fathom (v. t.) The measure by a sounding line; especially, to sound the depth of; to penetrate, measure, and comprehend; to get to the bottom of..
Homophonous :: Homophonous (a.) Originally, sounding alike; of the same pitch; unisonous; monodic..
High-sounding :: High-sounding (a.) Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles..
Sounding :: Sounding (a.) Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words..
Bathometer :: Bathometer (n.) An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line..
Sounding :: Sounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Soun.
Resounding :: Resounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resoun.
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..
Phonomotor :: Phonomotor (n.) An instrument in which motion is produced by the vibrations of a sounding body.
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