| 单词 | sounding line |
| 释义 | sounding line (once / 112565 pages) n WORD FAMILY sounding line: sounding lines USAGE EXAMPLESAn instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line. Webster, Noah, Webster's Unabridged Dictionary—(2n...(2012) During a great storm, the sounding lines of the Fortune gave an ever-decreasing depth, first thirty, then twenty, and at last only fourteen fathoms. Benett, Léon, Celebrated Travels and Travellers—P...(2010) Sounding lines are used to measure the depths of the waters and to locate submerged ledges and covered rocks in this once mountainous area. Spivak, John L., Secret Armies—The New Technique of...(2010) n (nautical) plumb line for determining depth Syn|Hyper lead line perpendicular, plumb line a cord from which a metal weight is suspended pointing directly to the earth's center of gravity; used to determine the vertical from a given point |
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