English-Dutch translations for sounding

• klinkend
  De opsteller van het cv met de Frans klinkende naam kreeg inderdaad een uitnodiging voor een gesprek; die van het cv met de buitenlands klinkende naam kreeg nul op het rekest. You will remember that the author of these CVs was offered an interview for the French-sounding name but received a rejection for the foreign-sounding name.
  Ik ben er echter niet zeker van dat de details onder die grote koppen recht doen aan deze positief klinkende aanpak. However, I am not sure that the details underneath these major headings do justice to this positive-sounding approach.
  Helaas weten we dat er soms een groot verschil is tussen mooi klinkende woorden en echte daden. Unfortunately, we know that there is sometimes a great difference between the nice-sounding words that are said and what is done.
• loding
• peiling

Definition of sounding

• The action of the verb to sound
• Emitting a sound
• Sonorous
• Test made with a probe or sonde
• A measured depth of water
• The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes
• The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom

Examples

• The sounding bell woke me up.
• Little Mary was sounding very sleepy, so I tucked her in bed
• The sailor took a sounding every five minutes

Related words

• resounding
• resoundingly
• sounding line
• sounding board
• sounding balloon
• sounding rocket
• sounding stone
• sounding lead
• sounding machine