Definitions
How to pronounce sounding:
Sounding - as a noun
A measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line
The act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line)
Sounding - as an adjective satellite
Appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms
Example: "Left their clothes dirty looking"
Having volume or deepness
Example: "Sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal"
Making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form
Example: "Harsh-sounding"
Sounding - as a verb
To produce a sound.
Example: "When the horn sounds, take cover."
To convey an impression by one's sound.
Example: "He sounded good when we last spoke."
To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
To resound.
(often with in) to arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law.
To cause to produce a sound.
Example: "He sounds the instrument."
(of a vowel or consonant) to pronounce.
Example: "The "e" in "house" isn't sounded."
Dive downwards, used of a whale.
Example: "The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive."
To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.
Example: "When i sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal."
Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
Example: "Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope."
To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
Example: "To sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra"
Sounding - as an adjective
Emitting a sound.
Example: "The sounding bell woke me up."
Sonorous.
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Word Game Points
SOUNDING has a SCRABBLE points total of 10.
SOUNDING has a WORDS WITH FRIENDS points total of 14.
SOUNDING has a WORDFEUD points total of 12.
