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sounding 音标拼音: [s'ɑʊndɪŋ] n. 测量水深;探针诊断 测量水深;探针诊断 sounding adj 1: appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms; " left their clothes dirty looking"; " a most disagreeable looking character"; " angry- looking"; " liquid- looking"; " severe- looking policemen on noble horses"; " fine- sounding phrases"; " taken in by high- sounding talk" [ synonym: { looking}, { sounding}] 2: having volume or deepness; " sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal"; " the sounding cataract haunted me like a passion"- Wordsworth 3: making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form; " harsh- sounding" n 1: a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line 2: the act of measuring depth of water ( usually with a sounding line) Sound \ Sound\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Sounded}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Sounding}.] [ F. sonder; cf. AS. sundgyrd a sounding rod, sundline a sounding line ( see { Sound} a narrow passage of water).] 1. To measure the depth of; to fathom; especially, to ascertain the depth of by means of a line and plummet. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of ( a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe. [ 1913 Webster] I was in jest, And by that offer meant to sound your breast. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] I' ve sounded my Numidians man by man. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Med.) To explore, as the bladder or urethra, with a sound; to examine with a sound; also, to examine by auscultation or percussion; as, to sound a patient. [ 1913 Webster]
Sounding \ Sound" ing\, a. Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster]
Sounding \ Sound" ing\, n. 1. The act of one who, or that which, sounds ( in any of the senses of the several verbs). [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Naut.) [ From { Sound} to fathom.] ( a) measurement by sounding; also, the depth so ascertained. ( b) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom; -- usually in the plural. ( c) The sand, shells, or the like, that are brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom. [ 1913 Webster] { Sounding lead}, the plummet at the end of a sounding line. { Sounding line}, a line having a plummet at the end, used in making soundings. { Sounding post} ( Mus.), 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}. { Sounding rod} ( Naut.), a rod used to ascertain the depth of water in a ship' s hold. { In soundings}, within the eighty- fathom line. -- Ham. Nav. Encyc. [ 1913 Webster] 49 Moby Thesaurus words for " sounding": bathometry, bathymetry, booming, chiming, depth sounding, dinging, droning, echo sounding, echoic, echoing, echolocation, fathomage, fathoming, growling, jingling, lingering, monotone, monotonic, oceanography, pealing, persistent, reboant, rebounding, reechoing, repercussive, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, reverberatory, ringing, rumbling, sonar, sonation, soniferous, sonification, sonorous, sounded, soundings, thundering, tingling, tinkling, tintinnabular, tintinnabulary, tintinnabulous, tolling, tonal, toneless, undamped, water
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