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Sounding vs Hounding - What's the difference?

sounding | hounding |

As nouns the difference between sounding and hounding

is that sounding is the action of the verb to sound or sounding can be test made with a probe or sonde while hounding is pursuit, especially when persistent or relentless.

As verbs the difference between sounding and hounding

is that sounding is while hounding is .

As an adjective sounding

is emitting a sound.

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.

    • Anagrams

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    hounding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Pursuit, especially when persistent or relentless.
  • *2011 , "Embraceable you", The Economist , 30 Jul 2011:
  • *:Elsewhere, the hounding of Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel laureate and founder of the Grameen Bank who briefly flirted with politics, was vindictive.
  • (nautical) The part of a mast below the hounds and above the deck.
    • (Webster 1913)