Cryptic crossword clue
Plumbing making noises? 8

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word SOUNDING

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What does SOUNDING mean?

SOUNDING verb
  1. To produce a sound.
  2. To convey an impression by one's sound.
  3. To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
  4. To resound.
  5. (often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law.
  6. To cause to produce a sound.
  7. (of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
SOUNDING verb
  1. Dive downwards, used of a whale.
  2. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.
  3. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
  4. To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
SOUNDING noun
  1. The action of the verb to sound.
SOUNDING adjective
  1. Emitting a sound.
  2. Sonorous.
SOUNDING noun
  1. Test made with a probe or sonde.
  2. A measured depth of water.
  3. The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes
  4. (chiefly in the plural) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom.
  5. The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.

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