"sounding" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈsaʊndɪŋ/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: En-us-sounding.ogg [US]
enPR: soundʹĭng Rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ Etymology: sound (“produce a sound”) + -ing. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|sound|ing|gloss1=produce a sound}} sound (“produce a sound”) + -ing Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} sounding (not comparable)
  1. Emitting a sound. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-sounding-en-adj-ABEOu8W5
  2. Sonorous. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-sounding-en-adj-lB2YRdyK
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈsaʊndɪŋ/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: En-us-sounding.ogg [US] Forms: soundings [plural]
enPR: soundʹĭng Rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ Etymology: sound (“produce a sound”) + -ing. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|sound|ing|gloss1=produce a sound}} sound (“produce a sound”) + -ing Head templates: {{en-noun}} sounding (plural soundings)
  1. The action of the verb to sound.
    Sense id: en-sounding-en-noun-F3adhIIE
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈsaʊndɪŋ/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: En-us-sounding.ogg [US] Forms: soundings [plural]
enPR: soundʹĭng Rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ Etymology: From sound (“examine with the instrument called a sound, or by auscultation or percussion”) + -ing. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|sound|ing|gloss1=examine with the instrument called a sound, or by auscultation or percussion}} sound (“examine with the instrument called a sound, or by auscultation or percussion”) + -ing Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} sounding (countable and uncountable, plural soundings)
  1. A test made with a probe or sonde. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (test made with a probe): сондиране (sondirane) (Bulgarian), sondar (Catalan), Sondierung [feminine] (German), sondagem [feminine] (Portuguese), sondeo [masculine] (Spanish), sonda [feminine] (Spanish), sondaj (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-sounding-en-noun-en:water_depth_test Disambiguation of 'test made with a probe': 86 7 2 1 4
  2. A measured depth of water. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-sounding-en-noun-en:water_depth_test_result
  3. The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-sounding-en-noun-hwU7uRvg
  4. (chiefly in the plural) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom. Tags: countable, in-plural, uncountable
    Sense id: en-sounding-en-noun-feY1z1ne
  5. The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-sounding-en-noun-a7jB~HYL
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈsaʊndɪŋ/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: En-us-sounding.ogg [US]
enPR: soundʹĭng Rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ Etymology: sound (“produce a sound”) + -ing. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|sound|ing|gloss1=produce a sound}} sound (“produce a sound”) + -ing Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} sounding
  1. present participle and gerund of sound Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: sound
    Sense id: en-sounding-en-verb-w3~Vm~-e Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ing Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 1 0 3 3 8 17 22 32 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing: 10 6 0 8 8 9 14 19 27
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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        "Sonorous."
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
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    },
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      "rhymes": "-aʊndɪŋ"
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      ],
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      "enpr": "soundʹĭng"
    }
  ],
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}

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        }
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}

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    {
      "word": "echo sounding"
    },
    {
      "word": "high-sounding"
    },
    {
      "word": "radio sounding"
    },
    {
      "word": "sounding balloon"
    },
    {
      "word": "sounding-board"
    },
    {
      "word": "sounding board"
    },
    {
      "word": "sounding line"
    },
    {
      "word": "sounding rocket"
    },
    {
      "word": "sounding rod"
    },
    {
      "word": "sounding stone"
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      "word": "sounding-stone"
    }
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "text": "Morning sounding at Chatham showed dry adiabatic lapse rate all the way to 700 mb this morning […]"
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          "text": "The sailor took a sounding every five minutes"
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          "water"
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      ],
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        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes"
      ],
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          "urethra"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
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        "uncountable"
      ]
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    {
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        {
          "ref": "a. 1840, Spanish Ladies (naval song, chorus)",
          "text": "We'll rant and we'll roar across the salt seas; Until we strike soundings in the Channel of old England"
        }
      ],
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        "Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom."
      ],
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        [
          "ocean",
          "ocean"
        ]
      ],
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        "(chiefly in the plural) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "in-plural",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom."
      ],
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        [
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          "sand"
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        [
          "shell",
          "shell"
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      ],
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        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
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      "ipa": "/ˈsaʊndɪŋ/",
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        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
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      "rhymes": "-aʊndɪŋ"
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        "US"
      ],
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sondirane",
      "sense": "test made with a probe",
      "word": "сондиране"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "test made with a probe",
      "word": "sondar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "test made with a probe",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Sondierung"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "test made with a probe",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sondagem"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "test made with a probe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sondeo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "test made with a probe",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sonda"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "test made with a probe",
      "word": "sondaj"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sounding"
}

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