Phonetic Breakdown of "sounding"
Learn how to break down "sounding" into its phonetic components. Understanding syllables and phonetics helps with pronunciation, spelling, and language learning.
sound-ing
2 syllables
Standard Phonetic Pronunciation:
/ˈsaʊndɪŋ/
Phonetic representation based on standard dictionaries
IPA Phonetic Pronunciation:
S AW1 N D IH0 NG
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Definition of "sounding"
Pronunciation: /ˈsaʊndɪŋ/
Verb
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To produce a sound.Example: "When the horn sounds, take cover."
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To convey an impression by one's sound.Example: "He sounded good when we last spoke."
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To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
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To resound.
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(often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law.
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To cause to produce a sound.Example: "He sounds the instrument."
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(of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.Example: "The "e" in "house" isn't sounded."
Verb
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Dive downwards, used of a whale.Example: "The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive."
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To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.Example: "When I sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal."
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Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.Example: "Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope."
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To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.Example: "to sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra"
Noun
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The action of the verb to sound.
Adjective
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Emitting a sound.Example: "The sounding bell woke me up."
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Sonorous.
Pronunciation: /ˈsaʊndɪŋ/
Noun
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Test made with a probe or sonde.
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A measured depth of water.Example: "The sailor took a sounding every five minutes"
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The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes
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(chiefly in the plural) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom.
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The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.
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