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Definition: Sounding Lead |
Sounding LeadNoun1. A metal bob at the end of a sounding line. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | In measuring water depth, the hand lead used in sounding.See also:hand lead. (references) |
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Crosswords: Sounding Lead |
| English words defined with "sounding lead": Coasting lead ♦ Lead arming ♦ To arm the lead. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sounding lead": mud snapper. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sounding lead": Pilot. (references) |
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 | Deep-sea sounding lead, thermometer, and water bottle. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Figure 15. - The Valve Sounding Lead (in section). In: "The Voyage of the CHALLENGER - The Atlantic" Vol I, by Sir C. Wyville Thomson, 1878. P. 62. Library Call Number Q 115.C59 1878. v. 1. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Figure 1. A drilled roller (round boulder) used as a sounding weight. Figure 2 . Ordinary sounding lead weight, sometimes attaining many kilograms. The lead dates from the Christian era. The trapezoidal form with a recess for tallow and acquiring bottom samples dates from a few centuries back. In this form, millio ns of sounding were made. Fig. 3. French sounding lead used in many expeditions. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ||
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| Language | Translations for "sounding lead"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 測鉛 (plummet). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | そくえ" (plummet). (various references) | ||||
Manx | leoaie (lead, leaden, plumbic). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | oundingsay eadlay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | plom. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-g-i-l-n-n-o-s-u" | |
-1 letter: undiagnosed. | |
-2 letters: dandelions, unsaddling. | |
-3 letters: alongside, dandelion, delousing, desanding, diagnosed, dialogued, dialogues, dunelands, ensouling, guanosine, loudening, saddening, soddening, unaligned, unleading, unloading, unsealing. | |
-4 letters: adenoids, agonised, anginose, anginous, angulose, annelids, annulose, dandling, dealings, deluding, delusion, denuding, diagnose, dialoged, dialogue, disannul, dislodge, dudgeons, duneland, dungeons, dunnages, duodenal, eanlings, enginous, eulogias, gasoline, gladdens, guanines, indulged, indulges, insouled. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 75 6E 64 69 6E 67 4C 65 61 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01001100 01100101 01100001 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o u n d i n g   L e a d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 0075 006E 0064 0069 006E 0067 004C 0065 0061 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5381878070758073246716770 |
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