A weighted line with distances marked off at regular intervals, used to measure the depth of water under a boat.
测深绳
Example sentencesExamples
They had to be content with their sounding lines of piano wire.
Two years later, on the other side of the world, their sounding lines revealed a chasm in the western Pacific more than five miles deep.
Eventually the Scientifics were able to predict, with a fair degree of accuracy, the nature of the bottom sediment merely by observing the depth at which the sounding line stopped paying out.
Definition of sounding line in US English:
sounding line
nounˈsoundiNG ˌlīn
A weighted line with distances marked off at regular intervals, used to measure the depth of water under a boat.
测深绳
Example sentencesExamples
Eventually the Scientifics were able to predict, with a fair degree of accuracy, the nature of the bottom sediment merely by observing the depth at which the sounding line stopped paying out.
Two years later, on the other side of the world, their sounding lines revealed a chasm in the western Pacific more than five miles deep.
They had to be content with their sounding lines of piano wire.