Sounded

Definition: Sounded

Sounded

Adjective

1. (of water depth) measured by a line and plumb.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sounded" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonym: Sounded

Crosswords: Sounded

Sounded like you did. (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.)

One of them could have been a deer, but the other one sounded like a cackling (The Blair Witch Project; writing credit: Daniel Myrick; Eduardo Sánchez)

Sounded like an annoying bug asking me irritating questions (101 Dalmatians; writing credit: John Hughes)

I've been asked out on dates before, and that's what it sounded like (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

I don't know, I just thought that it sounded distinguished-like (A Hard Day's Night; writing credit: Alun Owen)

And it sounded something like this ("The Devil Went Down to Georgia"; performing artist: Charlie Daniels Band)

It sounded really loud they said it really loud (ON THE RADIO; performing artist: Donna Summer)

It Sounded Like a Kiss (1916)

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Books

• A Religious Retreat Sounded to a Religious Army (Notable American Authors) (reference)

• Coastal Erosion: Has Retreat Sounded (Program on Environment and Behavior, Monograph No 53) [PHOTOCOPY] (reference)

• Horsham town & country : when the siren sounded : Horsham, the war years (reference)

• Music Sounded Out: Essays, Lectures, Interviews, Afterthoughts (reference)

• Shakespeare Sounded Soundly (reference)

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HMS RACEHORSE in pack ice - Captain Constantine Phipps Sounded in Norwegian Sea in 683 fathoms Brought up blue mud First modern successful sounding on continental slope area Not sounding in image. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Boats from HMS EREBUS and HMS TERROR - Captain James Clark Ross Sounded in open ocean at 27.43 S and 17.48 W Recorded depth of approximately 2200 fathoms First modern successful sounding in deep ocean. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

USS VINCENNES in pack ice - Captain Charles Wilkes commanding On the Antarctic shelf, Wilkes sounded with copper wire in 400 fathoms First use of wire instead of hemp sounding line Copper too ductile and would break - gave up on idea. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Contour map of Gulf of Mexico as sounded by the BLAKE Used Sigsbee Sounding Machine to take over 3,000 soundings in a year First realistic bathymetric map of any ocean basin. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Sounding technique used by Sir James Clark Ross in obtaining first modern deep sea sounding on January 3, 1840 at Latitude 27 26 S and Longitude 17 29 W. The observed depth was 2,425 fathoms. On January 22, 1968, the ESSA Ship DISCOVERER sounded at the same location with a modern echo-sounder and measured 2312 fathoms, less than a 5 per cent error for Ross's observation. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Military buglers have been communicating with troops and their families for centuries. "Taps" is sounded more than 30 times a day at Arlington National Cemetary, Va., and has been sounded over soldiers' graves since 1862, is the most recognizabl.

What's the matter? Miss O'Leary asked : her voice sounded hurt. Credit: Library of Congress.

Well, it sounded up there, answered the man, pointing to the black abyss opening out into the night. Credit: Library of Congress.

-- And it sounded like it. Credit: Library of Congress.

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When first sounded on the subject, he was so miserable, that they were almost hopeless

But their voices sounded very far away, and, when I looked round, both children had disappeared

He spoke before the bell had sounded, which it now did with a deep, dull, hollow, melancholy ONE.

The shriek had perhaps sounded with a far greater power, to his own startled ears, than it actually possessed

The noise of this hinge sounded in his ears as clear and terrible as the trumpet of the Judgment Day.

The echoes of certain expressions used in Clongowes sounded in remote caves of his mind

She was brushing water through her hair with her fingers when a step sounded on the concrete floor behind her.

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Economic History

Thailand

Bank of Thailand Governor M.R. ChatuMongol Sonakul sounded the same themes in his address at the Asian Development Bank's annual meetings. (references)

Thailand

During the campaign Thaksin's advisors at times sounded nationalistic calls for resources to be controlled by Thais, for Thai corporations to receive favored treatment until they were "prepared to compete" internationally, and for reforms of bankruptcy and foreclosure procedures and international agreements to be re-examined. (references)

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Chinese 

听起来 (sounding). (various references)

French

sonnés, sonnées, sonné, sonnâmes, sonnèrent, sonna. (various references)

German

sondierte (probed, took a sounding), erklang. (various references)

Indonesian

terjajaki (probed, sounded out). (various references)

Korean 

소리가 나는. (various references)

Manx

suntit, feiyrit (noised), er ny hellym (blown), cayrnit (blown), bwoallit (beaten). (various references)

Pig Latin

oundedsay.(various references)

Russian 

звучать (clink, resound, sound). (various references)

Swedish

lät. (various references)

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

Derivations

Words ending with "sounded": missounded, resounded, unsounded. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sounded" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Osmunda. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: doused, sodden, sudden, undoes.

-2 letters: dosed, douse, dudes, dunes, nodes, nodus, nosed, nudes, sonde, sound.

-3 letters: dens, does, done, dons, dose, dude, duds, dues, dune, duns, duos, eddo, ends, eons, node, nods, noes, nose, nous, nude, odds, odes, ones, onus, ouds, send, sned, sone, sudd, sued, udos, unde, undo, used.

-4 letters: den, doe, don.

+1 letter: dudgeons, redounds, stounded, swounded.

+2 letters: astounded, deskbound, duodenums, resounded, underdoes, underdogs, undergods, undersold, unsounded.

+3 letters: deductions, deerhounds, discounted, dismounted, enshrouded, missounded, spunbonded, squadroned, surrounded, understood, underwoods, unsoldered.

+4 letters: boundedness, denudations, diminuendos, outdesigned, outstridden, pseudomonad, roundedness, underbodies, underscored, underworlds, undiagnosed, undisclosed, undissolved, undistorted, zidovudines.

+5 letters: cotransduced, discontinued, dreadnoughts, dumbfounders, misconducted, nonscheduled, outdatedness, outdistanced, pseudomonads, pseudorandom, rediscounted, rendezvoused, soundproofed, subordinated, unconsidered, undecomposed, underexposed, undergrounds, undiscovered.