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Pounding vs Sounding - What's the difference?

pounding | sounding |

As verbs the difference between pounding and sounding

is that pounding is present participle of lang=en while sounding is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between pounding and sounding

is that pounding is an act in which something or someone is pounded while sounding is the action of the verb to sound.

As adjectives the difference between pounding and sounding

is that pounding is causing heavy or loud throbs while sounding is emitting a sound.

pounding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act in which something or someone is pounded
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=January 21, author=Robin Pogrebin, title=Undaunted Director at Indian Museum, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=“I took a few poundings in the past.” }}

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing heavy or loud throbs
    • I have a pounding headache.

    sounding

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) sownden, sounen, from (etyl) suner, (etyl) soner (modern sonner ), from (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to sound .
    • The sounding of the bells woke me from sleep.
  • * (John Lightfoot)
    • And thus did the trumpets sound one-and-twenty blasts every day;
    (Webster 1913)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Emitting a sound.
    • The sounding bell woke me up.
  • sonorous
  • * Dryden
    • sounding words
  • * Edgar Allan Poe
    • In her tomb by the sounding sea.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
  • A measured depth of water.
    • The sailor took a sounding every five minutes
  • 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.

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