sounding

1. To produce a sound.

   When the horn sounds, take cover.

2. To convey an impression by one's sound.

   He sounded good when we last spoke.

3. To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
4. To resound.
5. (often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law.
6. To cause to produce a sound.

   He sounds the instrument.

7. (of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.

   The "e" in "house" isn't sounded.

1. Dive downwards, used of a whale.

   The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive.

2. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.

   When I sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal.

3. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.

   Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope.

4. To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.

   to sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra

noun

The action of the verb to sound.

1. Emitting a sound.

   The sounding bell woke me up.

2. Sonorous.

1. Test made with a probe or sonde.
2. A measured depth of water.

   The sailor took a sounding every five minutes

3. The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes
4. (chiefly in the plural) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom.
5. The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.