sounding

FREQ #7836

a. 发出声音的, 响亮的, 夸大的, 听上去堂皇的, 夸张的 n. 测深, 水深测量, 探空, 试探, 调查, 搜集意见

发音

US /ˈsaʊndɪŋ/
UK /ˈsaʊndɪŋ/

词形变化

soundings 复数

别名

soundin'

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The action of the verb to sound.

  2. 1.

    A test made with a probe or sonde.

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    Morning sounding at Chatham showed dry adiabatic lapse rate all the way to 700 mb this morning […]

  3. 2.

    A measured depth of water.

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    The sailor took a sounding every five minutes

  4. 3.

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

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

  5. 4.

    The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.

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  6. 5.

    The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes.(See urethral sounding).

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v.
  1. 1.

    present participle and gerund of sound

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

    "Assist"'s sense ‘to be present (at a ceremony, entertainment, etc.)’, now uncommon and sounding affected, is a Gallicism.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Emitting a sound.

    The sounding bell woke me up.

  2. 2.

    Sonorous.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 6

measure depth measuring measurement deepness mensuration
形容词

近义相关 4

full audible superficial hearable

相关短语

sounding board 共振板 sounding boards sounding balloon 探空气球 sounding rod n. 量水尺 sounding rocket 探空火箭 sounding rockets sounding out sounding stone 磬 sounding stones sounding rods sounding balloons sounding line 测深索 sounding off sounding lines sounding machine

词源

From sound (“produce a sound”) + -ing.

来源：wiktionary