sounding

adj 1: appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining

forms; "left their clothes dirty looking"; "a most

disagreeable looking character"; "angry-looking";

"liquid-looking"; "severe-looking policemen on noble

horses"; "fine-sounding phrases"; "taken in by

high-sounding talk" [syn: {looking}]

2: having volume or depth; "sounding brass and a tinkling

cymbal"; "the sounding cataract haunted me like a

passion"- Wordsworth

3: making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining

form; "harsh-sounding"

n 1: a measure of the depth of water taken by sounding

2: the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding

line)