sounding in WordNet English dictionary

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"
   looking  sounding 
   
2. making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form
   "harsh-sounding"
   sounding 
   
3. having volume or deepness
   "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal"; "the sounding cataract haunted me like a passion"- Wordsworth
   sounding 
   

1. the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line)
   sounding 
   
2. a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line
   sounding