sounding

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) enPR: soundʹĭng, IPA^(key): /ˈsaʊndɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ

sound (“produce a sound”) +‎ -ing.

sounding (plural soundings)

1. The action of the verb to sound.
   • John Lightfoot

     And thus did the trumpets sound one-and-twenty blasts every day; […] three soundings at the three pausings of the music, […]

sounding (not comparable)

1. Emitting a sound.

   The sounding bell woke me up.

2. Sonorous.
   • Dryden

     sounding words

   • Edgar Allan Poe

     In her tomb by the sounding sea.

sounding

1. present participle of sound

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

From sound (“examine with the instrument called a sound, or by auscultation or percussion”) +‎ -ing.

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 […]

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

• undoings