1. emitting or producing a sound or sounds.
2. resounding or sonorous.
3. having an imposing sound; high-sounding; pompous.

4. a verbal contest or confrontation, as among teenage boys or street-gang members, in which the trading of often elaborate insults and invective takes the place of physical violence.

1. the act of measuring the depth of an area of water with or as if with a lead and line.
2. soundings,
• an area of water that can besounded with an ordinary lead and line, the depth being 100 fathoms (180 meters) or less.
• the results or measurement obtained by sounding with a lead and line.
3. any vertical penetration of the atmosphere for scientific measurement, especially a radiosonde observation.

4. in waters beyond the 100-fathom (180-meter) depth.
5. in waters less than 100 fathoms (180 meters) deep, so that the lead can be used.

1. resounding; resonant
2. having an imposing sound and little content; pompous

1. the act or process of measuring depth of water or examining the bottom of a river, lake, etc, as with a sounding line
2. an observation or measurement of atmospheric conditions, as made using a radiosonde or rocketsonde
3. measurements taken by sounding
4. a place where a sounding line will reach the bottom, esp less than 100 fathoms in depth
5. in waters less than 100 fathoms in depth
6. in waters more than 100 fathoms in depth

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