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Meaning of sounding

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  sounding
      adj 1: appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining
             forms; "left their clothes dirty looking"; "a most
             disagreeable looking character"; "angry-looking";
             "liquid-looking"; "severe-looking policemen on noble
             horses"; "fine-sounding phrases"; "taken in by high-
             sounding talk" [syn: {looking}, {sounding}]
      2: having volume or deepness; "sounding brass and a tinkling
         cymbal"; "the sounding cataract haunted me like a passion"-
         Wordsworth
      3: making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining
         form; "harsh-sounding"
      n 1: a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line
      2: the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding
         line)

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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