Dictionary Entry
sounding
sounding is a 8-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Sound. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 14 · 11 senses
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- 1present participle
of Sound
- 2adjective
Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words.
- 3noun
The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs).
- 4noun
measurement by sounding; also, the depth so ascertained.
- 5noun
Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom; -- usually in the plural.
- 6noun
The sand, shells, or the like, that are brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.
- 7noun
the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line)
- 8noun
a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line
- 9adjective
making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form
"harsh-sounding"
- 10adjective
having volume or deepness- Wordsworth
"sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal"
"the sounding cataract haunted me like a passion"
- 11adjective
appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms
"left their clothes dirty looking"
"a most disagreeable looking character"
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