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sounding
1[ soun-ding ]
noun
- 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.
sounding
2[ soun-ding ]
noun
- Often soundings. the act of measuring the depth of an area of water with or as if with a lead and line.
- soundings,
- Meteorology. any vertical penetration of the atmosphere for scientific measurement, especially a radiosonde observation.
sounding
1/ ˈsaʊndɪŋ /
noun
- sometimes plural the act or process of measuring depth of water or examining the bottom of a river, lake, etc, as with a sounding line
- an observation or measurement of atmospheric conditions, as made using a radiosonde or rocketsonde
- often plural measurements taken by sounding
- plural a place where a sounding line will reach the bottom, esp less than 100 fathoms in depth
- on soundingsin waters less than 100 fathoms in depth
- off soundingsin waters more than 100 fathoms in depth
sounding
2/ ˈsaʊndɪŋ /
adjective
- resounding; resonant
- having an imposing sound and little content; pompous
sounding phrases
Derived Forms
- ˈsoundingly, adverb
Other Words From
- sounding·ly adverb
- sounding·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- off soundings, Nautical. in waters beyond the 100-fathom (180-meter) depth.
- on soundings, Nautical. in waters less than 100 fathoms (180 meters) deep, so that the lead can be used.
Example Sentences
Some 20 years later, another Times writer, sounding like an anti-DEI whiner, wrote approvingly about diligent Indians grateful for free schooling and medical services, and disapprovingly about the Indians who weren’t.
Artists and storytellers are often our early warning system and they’ve been sounding the alarm bells for years.
Most lawmakers tend to all sing the same tune in their guarded echo chamber, ignoring different sounding appeals from the public.
They treated it all like some terrible board game when they should have been sounding the alarms and giving the most menacing threat in American history the editorial weight it deserved.
A band composed of members of the Royal Marine Band, the Royal Corps of Signals Pipes and Drums and the Police Scotland and Federation Pipe Band provided arrangements and the sounding of the Last Post.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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