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sounding¹

  • /ˈsaʊndɪŋ/ US, UK

Rhymes with -aʊndɪŋ

Where it comes from

From sound (“produce a sound”) + -ing.

noun soundings

  1. The action of the verb to sound. And thus did the trumpets sound one-and-twenty blasts every day; […] three soundings at the three pausings of the music, […]

adjective

  1. not comparable Emitting a sound. The sounding bell woke me up.
  2. not comparable Sonorous. sounding words

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of sound Little Mary was sounding very sleepy, so I tucked her in bed.

sounding²

  • /ˈsaʊndɪŋ/ US, UK

Rhymes with -aʊndɪŋ

noun soundings

  1. countable, uncountable A test made with a probe or sonde. Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment […]
  2. countable, uncountable A measured depth of water. The sailor took a sounding every five minutes
  3. countable, in plural, uncountable Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom. We'll rant and we'll roar across the salt seas; Until we strike soundings in the Channel of old England
  4. countable, uncountable The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.
  5. countable, uncountable The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes.(See urethral sounding).

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: hearable, audible, looking, full, superficial, resonant, detection, detecting, ringing, snooping, survey, probing, detect, exploration, sampling, poll

Translations

Every language

noun test made with a probe

Españolsondeo, sonda
Portuguêssondagem
DeutschSondierung
Русскийзонди́рование zondírovanije

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@misc{sounding_2026,
  title = {sounding},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sounding},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}