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SOUNDING ROD

Definition: SOUNDING ROD

SOUNDING ROD

1. (Naut.), a rod used to ascertain the depth of water in a ship's hold.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definition: SOUNDING ROD

DomainDefinition

Building & Civil Engineering

A device to locate lost tile drains. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A closed pipe, 1 in (2.5 cm) in diameter, with a flush point and a drivingtip, used in sounding. See also:sounding. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: SOUNDING ROD

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Depth

Soundings, depth of water, water, draught, submersion; plummet, sound, probe; sounding rod, sounding line; lead.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: SOUNDING ROD

Language Translations for "SOUNDING ROD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

kontrolsonde (probe). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

sondeerstang (probe), sonde (coupling probe, probe, probe tube, sound). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

mittaustanko (probe), koetintanko (probe). (various references)

   

French

  

sonde de contrôle des tuyaux, sonde (sonde, sound), perche de sondage (sounding line). (various references)

   

German

  

Sondierstange (probe), Kontrollsonde (probe). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ράβδος ανιχνεύσεως λειτουργίας δραίνων (probe), σόντα ανιχνεύσεως λειτουργίας δραίνων (probe). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sonda di localizzazione dei tubi (probe). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oundingsay odray

   

Portuguese

  

sonda de localização dos tubos (probe). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sonda de control de tubos (probe). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sondstång (probe). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SOUNDING ROD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-g-i-n-n-o-o-r-s-u"

-3 letters: grunions, rounding, snooding, sounding, undoings.

-4 letters: diurons, dousing, drongos, droning, durions, durning, grounds, grunion, guidons, indoors, nodding, nondrug, noosing, nursing, rodding, ronions, roosing, rousing, snoring, sodding, sordino, sorning, souring, undoing, ungirds.

-5 letters: dingus, diuron, doings, donors, dosing, droids, drongo, druids, duding, during, durion, girons, godson, gonion, gourds, grinds, grison, groins, ground, guidon, guiros.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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