Surveying vs Sounding - What's the difference?
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The science of accurately determining the position of points and the distances between them.
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.
Surveying is a related term of sounding.
As nouns the difference between surveying and sounding
is that surveying is the science of accurately determining the position of points and the distances between them while sounding is the action of the verb to sound or sounding can be test made with a probe or sonde.As verbs the difference between surveying and sounding
is that surveying is while sounding is .As an adjective sounding is
emitting a sound.surveying
English
(wikipedia surveying)Noun
Verb
(head)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