different between sounding vs saccade

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)

1. 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, […]

Adjective

sounding (not comparable)

1. Emitting a sound.

   The sounding bell woke me up.

2. Sonorous.

   • sounding words

   • 1849, Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee

     In her tomb by the sounding sea.

Verb

sounding

1. 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)

1. 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 […]

2. A measured depth of water.

   The sailor took a sounding every five minutes

3. The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes
4. (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

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

Translations

Anagrams

• undoings

English

Etymology

From French saccade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??k??d/

Noun

saccade (plural saccades)

1. (rare) A sudden jerking movement.
2. A rapid jerky movement of the eye (voluntary or involuntary) from one focus to another.
   • 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:

     He added the bill with a single saccade of his pulsing eyes.

   • 2000, Tim Radford, The Guardian, 21 Nov 2000:

     Then 130 milliseconds or thousandths of a second later, each made a "saccade" - an extremely fast eye movement - to roughly where the ball was likely to bounce.
3. The act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins.
4. (music) The sounding of two violin strings together by using a sudden strong pressure of the bow.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

saccade (third-person singular simple present saccades, present participle saccading, simple past and past participle saccaded)

1. (of the eye) To make a rapid jerking movement to focus elsewhere.

See also

• eyetracking
• scanpath

Anagrams

• Cascade, cascade

French

Etymology

From saquer or its Spanish cognate sacar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.kad/

Noun

saccade f (plural saccades)

1. a jerk (jerking movement)
2. a rapid jerky movement of the eye (voluntary or involuntary) from one focus to another
3. the act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins

Derived terms

• ronfler par saccades

Verb

saccade

1. first-person singular present indicative of saccader
2. third-person singular present indicative of saccader
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of saccader
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of saccader
5. second-person singular imperative of saccader

Further reading

• “saccade” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• accédas, cascade, cascadé