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sounding
English
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) enPR: sound??ng, IPA(key): /?sa?nd??/
- Rhymes: -a?nd??
Etymology 1
sound (“produce a sound”) +? -ing.
Noun
sounding (plural soundings)
- The action of the verb to sound.
- c. 1650, John Lightfoot, The Temple-Service
- And thus did the trumpets sound one-and-twenty blasts every day; […] three soundings at the three pausings of the music, […]
- c. 1650, John Lightfoot, The Temple-Service
Adjective
sounding (not comparable)
- Emitting a sound.
- The sounding bell woke me up.
- Sonorous.
- sounding words
- 1849, Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
- In her tomb by the sounding sea.
Verb
sounding
- present participle of sound
Etymology 2
From sound (“examine with the instrument called a sound, or by auscultation or percussion”) +? -ing.
Noun
sounding (plural soundings)
- Test made with a probe or sonde.
- 2011, John P. Rafferty, Oceans and Oceanography (page 189)
- Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment […]
- 2020 June 25, National Weather Service Boston 9:52 AM forecast discussion:
- Morning sounding at Chatham showed dry adiabatic lapse rate all the way to 700 mb this morning […]
- 2011, John P. Rafferty, Oceans and Oceanography (page 189)
- A measured depth of water.
- The sailor took a sounding every five minutes
- The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes
- (chiefly in the plural) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom.
- Spanish Ladies, naval song, chorus
- We'll rant and we'll roar across the salt seas; Until we strike soundings in the Channel of old England
- Spanish Ladies, naval song, chorus
- The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.
Translations
Anagrams
- undoings
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estimation
English
Alternative forms
- æstimation (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English estimacioun, estimacion, from Old French estimacion, from Latin aestimatio.Morphologically estimate +? -ion
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?st??me???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
estimation (countable and uncountable, plural estimations)
- The process of making an estimate.
- The amount, extent, position, size, or value reached in an estimate.
- Esteem or favourable regard.
Derived terms
- estimate
Related terms
- esteem
Translations
French
Alternative forms
- æstimation (obsolete)
Etymology
estimer +? -ation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s.ti.ma.sj??/
Noun
estimation f (plural estimations)
- estimate; estimation (rough calculation or guess)
Further reading
- “estimation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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