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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Argentine :: Argentine (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, silver; made of, or sounding like, silver; silvery..
High-sounding :: High-sounding (a.) Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles..
Abatvoix :: Abatvoix (n.) The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.
Intonation :: Intonation (n.) The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.
Asonant :: Asonant (a.) Not sounding or sounded.
Phonoscope :: Phonoscope (n.) An instrument for observing or exhibiting the motions or properties of sounding bodies; especially, an apparatus invented by Konig for testing the quality of musical strings..
Loud-mouthed :: Loud-mouthed (a.) Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent.
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..
Iotacism :: Iotacism (n.) The frequent use of the sound of iota (that of English e in be), as among the modern Greeks; also, confusion from sounding /, /, /, /, //, etc., like /..
Voiceful :: Voiceful (a.) Having a voice or vocal quality; having a loud voice or many voices; vocal; sounding.
Altisonant :: Altisonant (a.) High-sounding; lofty or pompous.
Buccinal :: Buccinal (a.) Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.
Mark :: Mark (n.) One of the bits of leather or colored bunting which are placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. The unmarked fathoms are called deeps..
Sounding-board :: Sounding-board (n.) See Sound boarding, under Sound, a noise..
Fathom :: Fathom (n.) A measure of length, containing six feet; the space to which a man can extend his arms; -- used chiefly in measuring cables, cordage, and the depth of navigable water by soundings..
Thunderous :: Thunderous (a.) Making a noise like thunder; sounding loud and deep; sonorous.
Swashway :: Swashing (a.) Resounding; crushing.
Altiloquent :: Altiloquent (a.) High-sounding; pompous in speech.
Unison :: Unison (n.) Sounding alone.
Roll :: Roll (n.) To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences..
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