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"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈsaʊndɪŋ/",
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"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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},
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"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Indonesian translations",
"Terms with Malay translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Turkish translations"
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{
"word": "co-sounding"
},
{
"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"
},
{
"word": "sounding-stone"
}
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"name": "suffix"
}
],
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"form": "soundings",
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"ref": "2011, John P. Rafferty, Oceans and Oceanography, page 189:",
"text": "Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2020 June 25, National Weather Service Boston 9:52 AM forecast discussion",
"text": "Morning sounding at Chatham showed dry adiabatic lapse rate all the way to 700 mb this morning […]"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A test made with a probe or sonde."
],
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[
"probe",
"probe"
],
[
"sonde",
"sonde"
]
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]
},
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{
"text": "The sailor took a sounding every five minutes",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"A measured depth of water."
],
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[
"depth",
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[
"water",
"water"
]
],
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],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
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{
"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",
"urethra"
]
],
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]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"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"
}
],
"glosses": [
"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."
],
"links": [
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"sand",
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],
[
"shell",
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]
],
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}
],
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"enpr": "soundʹĭng",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈsaʊndɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-aʊndɪŋ"
}
],
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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": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "test made with a probe",
"word": "pendugaan"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "test made with a probe",
"word": "pemeruman"
},
{
"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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