Sounder

Quick meaning: Sounder is an adjective meaning comparative form of sound: more sound.

Meaning

comparative form of sound: more sound.

More Meanings

1. Something or someone who makes a sound.
2. An instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
3. (medicine, dated, plural only) A stethoscope.
4. Synonym of sting (“brief musical sequence in television etc.”).
5. (nautical) A device for making soundings at sea.
6. (nautical) A person who takes soundings.
7. (fishing) A fishfinder.

Example Sentences

a telephone with an electronic sounder

It was not only that there were wild boars in it, whose sounders would at this season be furiously rooting about, nor that one of the surviving wolves might be slinking behind any tree, with pale eyes and slavering chops.

The Northern Division Traffic Manager has said that there is no present intention of terminating the service, but the hopes previously entertained of expanding it cannot be entertained until it is operating on a sounder economic basis.

Word Forms

• sounders

Synonyms for sounder

Depending on context, synonyms include sting.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include topside, better, beeper, stronger, buzzer, chime.

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