Measuring vs Sounding - What's the difference?
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Act of measurement.
* 1899 , Self Culture (volume 8, page 683)
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 verbs the difference between measuring and sounding
is that measuring is present participle of lang=en while sounding is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between measuring and sounding
is that measuring is act of measurement while sounding is the action of the verb to sound.As an adjective sounding is
emitting a sound.measuring
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- The repeated measurings of one monument result in a mean approximation to something actually existing, and this is an excellent definition of an average.
Anagrams
*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