Definition/Meaning of sounding

• English - 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, […] 1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 394: In the course of his soundings , Sir…
• English - Adjective: sounding (not comparable) (not comparable) Emitting a sound. The sounding bell woke me up. (not comparable) Sonorous . 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number): sounding words 1849, Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee: In her tomb by the sounding sea.
• English - Verb: sounding (gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of sound Little Mary was sounding very sleepy, so I tucked her in bed. "Assist"'s sense ‘to be present (at a ceremony, entertainment, etc.)’, now uncommon and sounding affected, is a Gallicism.
• English - Anagrams: undoings
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. From sound (“produce a sound”) + -ing . Etymology 2. From sound (“measure depths”) + -ing .