Sounding vs Appraisal - What's the difference?
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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.
Sounding is a related term of appraisal.
As nouns the difference between sounding and appraisal
is that sounding is the action of the verb to sound or sounding can be test made with a probe or sonde while appraisal is a judgment or assessment of the value of something, especially a formal one.As an adjective sounding
is emitting a sound.As a verb sounding
is .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