The action of the verb to sound.
And thus did the trumpets sound one-and-twenty blasts every day; […] three soundings at the three pausings of the music, […]
A test made with a probe or sonde.
Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment […]
Emitting a sound.
The sounding bell woke me up.
Sonorous.
sounding words
present participle and gerund of sound
Little Mary was sounding very sleepy, so I tucked her in bed.
From sound (“produce a sound”) + -ing.
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