different between sounding vs gauging
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
sounding From the web:
- what sounding feels like
- what sounding means
- what sounding board mean
- what's sounding brass
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gauging
English
Verb
gauging
- present participle of gauge
Noun
gauging (plural gaugings)
- Measurement or estimation, with or as if with a gauge.
- periodic gaugings of the water level
- The addition of various materials to lime mortar.
- (sewing) A shirring.
Translations
Anagrams
- Guigang
gauging From the web:
- what's gauging mean
- what's gauging water
- what gauging station
- gauging what's real
- gauging what does it mean
- what is gauging plaster
- what's a gauging trowel used for
- what is gauging a weapon
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