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sounding sound·ing

Spelling: [soun-ding]

IPA: /ˈsaʊn dɪŋ/

Sounding is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 196 anagrams from letters in sounding (dginnosu).

Definitions for sounding

noun

1. a verbal contest or confrontation, as among teenage boys or street-gang members, in which the trading of often elaborate insults and invective takes the place of physical violence.
2. Often, soundings. the act of measuring the depth of an area of water with or as if with a lead and line.
3. soundings. an area of water that can be sounded with an ordinary lead and line, the depth being 100 fathoms (180 meters) or less. the results or measurement obtained by sounding with a lead and line.
4. Meteorology. any vertical penetration of the atmosphere for scientific measurement, especially a radiosonde observation.
5. the sensation produced by stimulation of the organs of hearing by vibrations transmitted through the air or other medium.
6. mechanical vibrations transmitted through an elastic medium, traveling in air at a speed of approximately 1087 feet (331 meters) per second at sea level.
7. the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause:
8. any auditory effect; any audible vibrational disturbance:
9. a noise, vocal utterance, musical tone, or the like:
10. a distinctive, characteristic, or recognizable musical style, as from a particular performer, orchestra, or type of arrangement:
11. Phonetics. speech sound. the audible result of an utterance or portion of an utterance: .
12. the auditory effect of sound waves as transmitted or recorded by a particular system of sound reproduction:
13. the quality of an event, letter, etc., as it affects a person:
14. the distance within which the noise of something may be heard.
15. mere noise, without meaning:
16. Archaic. a report or rumor; news; tidings.
17. Surgery. a long, slender instrument for sounding or exploring body cavities or canals.

Idioms

1. off soundings, Nautical. in waters beyond the 100-fathom (180-meter) depth.
2. on soundings, Nautical. in waters less than 100 fathoms (180 meters) deep, so that the lead can be used.

adjective

1. emitting or producing a sound or sounds.
2. resounding or sonorous.
3. having an imposing sound; high-sounding; pompous.

Verb phrases

1. sound off, Informal. to call out one's name, as at military roll call. to speak freely or frankly, especially to complain in such a manner. to exaggerate; boast:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to make or emit a sound:
2. to give forth (a sound):
3. to announce, order, or direct by or as by a sound:
4. to utter audibly, pronounce, or express:
5. to examine by percussion or auscultation:
6. to measure or try the depth of (water, a deep hole, etc.) by letting down a lead or plummet at the end of a line, or by some equivalent means.
7. to measure (depth) in such a manner, as at sea.
8. to examine or test (the bottom, as of the sea or a deep hole) with a lead that brings up adhering bits of matter.
9. to examine or investigate; seek to fathom or ascertain:
10. to seek to elicit the views or sentiments of (a person) by indirect inquiries, suggestive allusions, etc. (often followed by out):
11. Surgery. to examine, as the urinary bladder, with a sound.

verb (used without object)

1. to make or emit a sound.
2. to give forth a sound as a call or summons:
3. to be heard, as a sound.
4. to convey a certain impression when heard or read:
5. to give a specific sound:
6. to give the appearance of being; seem:
7. Law. to have as its basis or foundation (usually followed by in):
8. to use the lead and line or some other device for measuring depth, as at sea.
9. to go down or touch bottom, as a lead.
10. to plunge downward or dive, as a whale.
11. to make investigation; seek information, especially by indirect inquiries.

Origin of sounding

First recorded in 1275-1325; sound¹ + -ing²

Examples for sounding

Standout tracks include the Bad-era sounding Blue Gangsta and the irrepressibly buoyant Paul Anka-written Love Never Felt So Good.

The sounding thumps of his hoofs on the ground awoke the sleeper.

He's dazzling, fielding questions, spinning out anecdotes and limericks, sounding 35 and hungry for publicity.

After sounding me for some time, he inquired if I had any berth.

Ron Johnson, a one-time Tea Party senator from Wisconsin, would come next, sounding like he had seen the light.

"Sometimes that happens with me," he replies, sounding almost apologetic.

It could scarcely be heard above the Babel of tongues which was sounding.

He opened his mouth as wide as he could, and shut it with a sounding snap of his teeth.

Giulavogui cried, 55 years old and less than a decade in America, but sounding like a Gotham newsboy from another era.

Then he slapped his leg with a sounding and triumphant slap.