sounding

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   A test made with a probe or sonde.

   countable · uncountable

   Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment […]

2. A measured depth of water.

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   The sailor took a sounding every five minutes

3. Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom.

   countable · in-plural · uncountable

   We'll rant and we'll roar across the salt seas; Until we strike soundings in the Channel of old England

4. The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.

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5. The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes.(See urethral sounding).

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