Height vs Sounding - What's the difference?
height | sounding |
The distance from the base of something to the top.
* Robert Frost
* , chapter=5
, title= The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).
The highest point or maximum degree.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 29, author=Neil Johnston, title=Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn
, work=BBC Sport (Sussex) An area of land at the top of a cliff.
The action of the verb to sound .
* (John Lightfoot)
Emitting a sound.
sonorous
* Dryden
* Edgar Allan Poe
Test made with a probe or sonde.
* 2011 , John P. Rafferty, Oceans and Oceanography (page 189)
A measured depth of water.
The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes
(chiefly, in the plural) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom.
The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.
As nouns the difference between height and sounding
is that height is the distance from the base of something to the top while sounding is the action of the verb to sound.As an adjective sounding is
emitting a sound.As a verb sounding is
present participle of lang=en.height
English
Alternative forms
* highth * heighthNoun
- Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
citation, passage=If City never quite reached the heights of their 6-1 demolition of United, then Roberto Mancini's side should still have had this game safe long before Johnson restored their two-goal advantage.}}
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* (l)Antonyms
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* (wikipedia "height")sounding
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sownden, sounen, from (etyl) suner, (etyl) soner (modern sonner ), from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- The sounding of the bells woke me from sleep.
- And thus did the trumpets sound one-and-twenty blasts every day;
Adjective
(-)- The sounding bell woke me up.
- sounding words
- In her tomb by the sounding sea.
Verb
(head)Etymology 2
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment
- The sailor took a sounding every five minutes