sounding

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The action of the verb to sound.

   “And thus did the trumpets sound one-and-twenty blasts every day; […] three soundings at the three pausings of the music, […]”

2. sıfat Emitting a sound.

   “The sounding bell woke me up.”

3. sıfat Sonorous.

   “sounding words”

4. fiil present participle and gerund of sound

   “Little Mary was sounding very sleepy, so I tucked her in bed.”

5. isim A test made with a probe or sonde.

   “Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment […]”

6. isim A measured depth of water.

   “The sailor took a sounding every five minutes”

7. isim Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom.

   “We'll rant and we'll roar across the salt seas; Until we strike soundings in the Channel of old England”

8. isim The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.
9. isim The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes.(See urethral sounding).