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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/ ˈʊԻɪŋ /
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
in waters less than 100 fathoms in depth
in waters more than 100 fathoms in depth
sounding
2/ ˈʊԻɪŋ /
adjective
resounding; resonant
having an imposing sound and little content; pompous
sounding phrases
Other Word Forms
- soundingly adverb
- soundingness noun
- ˈdzܲԻ徱Բ adverb
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
off soundings, in waters beyond the 100-fathom (180-meter) depth.
on soundings, in waters less than 100 fathoms (180 meters) deep, so that the lead can be used.
Example Sentences
“I started experiencing some weakness in my right hand and I didn’t really think anything of it at that time,” Dane told Diane Sawyer, his voice perhaps sounding a bit slower and thicker than usual.
At this juncture, few are sounding that alarm.
Thus, the challenge of continuously documenting and sounding the alarm about how abnormal and dangerous the Age of Trump is while never normalizing it as being somehow quotidian, and therefore numbing.
In a democracy, the news media in its role as the Fourth Estate has the responsibility of sounding the alarm, telling the truth and holding power to account.
“I work at our preschool. He came over with the rest of our great Police Department, sounding the sirens, passing out stickers and singing,” Avila said.
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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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