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Sounding vs Plumbing - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between sounding and plumbing

is that sounding is the action of the verb to sound while plumbing is the pipes, together with the joints, tanks, stopcocks, taps and other fixtures of a water, gas or sewage system in a house or other building.

As an adjective sounding

is emitting a sound.

As a verb sounding

is present participle of lang=en.

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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    plumbing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncountable) The pipes, together with the joints, tanks, stopcocks, taps and other fixtures of a water, gas or sewage system in a house or other building.
  • (uncountable) The trade or occupation of a plumber.
  • (uncountable, informal) A system of vessels or ducts in the human body, especially the genitourinary system.
    • My plumbing was playing up, so I had to see the doctor.
  • (countable) A Murasugi sum where each disk summed along has its boundary subdivided into four segments.

    • Synonyms

    * (genitourinary system) waterworks (informal)

    Related terms

    * plumb * plumber

    See also

    * waterworks