What is the meaning of SOUNDING. Phrases containing SOUNDING
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Small platforms built into the sides of a ship to assist in depth sounding.
Measuring the depth of the water using a sonar device.
A Gang known as the Bloods, say PRAAAAAP! sounding like a machine gun. It is used when 2 Bloods meet and greet.
1. Measuring the depth of water beneath a ship using a lead-weighted sounding line. 2. To avoid work or only take easy jobs.
Measuring the depth of the water. Traditionally done by swinging the lead, now commonly by using a hull mounted echo sounder.
A heavy lead sinker that is attached to a line, used in sounding depth. Often refered to as a "hand leadline".
A sailor who takes soundings with a hand leadline, measuring the depth of water.
Insult implying you perform fellatio, which must in turn therefore imply a negative attitude towards performing oral sex! Also a less aggressive statement than 'fuck you' though sounding very similar.
Nice sounding word but contributor says he has no idea how or why it was used. Could be as old as the 15th century and may be associated with the North of England. If you have any ideas it would solve a dilema for us. We look forward to your help. Of course it could just be another form of 'dawdled' which would be a bit silly, so we await your comment with interest.
Sounding is Black−American slang for flirting
Similar to chinny-reck-on etc, but accompanied by rubbing of chin and a noise of disagreement along the lines of "neigh", but sounding more like "naiii".
pleasant-sounding music
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measurement by sounding; also, the depth so ascertained.
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Making a noise like thunder; sounding loud and deep; sonorous.
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A sounding-board.
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A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.
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The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs).
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Speaking or sounding very loud; stentorian.
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See Sound boarding, under Sound, a noise.
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A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments.
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Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
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The sand, shells, or the like, that are brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.
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Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom; -- usually in the plural.
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An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.]
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Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin.
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Having a voice or vocal quality; having a loud voice or many voices; vocal; sounding.
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To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences.
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Of or pertaining to a semivowel; half cocal; imperfectly sounding.
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Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words.
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Of a beautiful bluish green color, like sea water on soundings.
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Sounding alone.
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A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice.
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