Sounding

Noun

 * 1) The action of the verb to sound
 * The sounding of the bells woke me from sleep
 * 1) Testing with a probe
 * 2) A measured depth of water
 * The sailor took a sounding every five minutes
 * 1) The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes

Adjective

 * 1) Emitting a sound.
 * The sounding bell woke me up.

Verb
sounding


 * Little Mary was sounding very sleepy, so I tucked her in bed.
 * Little Mary was sounding very sleepy, so I tucked her in bed.

Thesaurus
bathometry, bathymetry, booming, chiming, depth sounding, dinging, droning, echo sounding, echoic, echoing, echolocation, fathomage, fathoming, growling, jingling, lingering, monotone, monotonic, oceanography, pealing, persistent, reboant, rebounding, reechoing, repercussive, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, reverberatory, ringing, rumbling, sonar, sonation, soniferous, sonification, sonorous, sounded, soundings, thundering, tingling, tinkling, tintinnabular, tintinnabulary, tintinnabulous, tolling, tonal, toneless, undamped, water

Anagrams

 * undoings