soundage

plural soundages

1. countableobsoleteuncountableThe production of a sound.

   Then we heard the soundage of a whistle in the wind .

   2014, Miya Lusions, We Are of Eternal Love: No Maki Ish Sheyetawah, page 179

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   Att the soundage of an alarum , euery one shall repaire to theire coullers or place appointed them .

   1855, David Pulsifer, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in New England, page 146

2. countableuncountablearchaeologyAn excavated trench or pit.

   It is a huge soundage, which was purposely dug for robbing the brick structure .

   2006, Devi Prasad Tewari, Excavations at Pirvitanisarif-Trilokpur, page 35

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   The establishment of a stratigraphic continium for Deh Morasi Ghundai and Said Qala Tepe will have to wait until the analysis of the soundage is completed.

   1971, Afghanistan - Volume 24, page 91

   The first phase is known only from a very small soundage on the eastern side of a large building of the third phase .

   1994, Vibha Tripathi, Ajeet K. Srivastava, The Indus Terracottas, page 51

3. countableuncountableThe determination of the depth and nature of materials beneath the surface.

   At the late session of the legislative body an appropriation was made for soundage and survey .

   1876, “Facts from Various Sources”, in Report of the Department of Agriculture, volume 12, page 455

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   Dynamically by measuring velocities of elastic longitudinal waves dispersing through the rocky mass between the soundage borings .

   1961, B. Kujundžić, Testing Mechanical Features of Rocks, page 14

   On March 10, 1955, soundage and hydrometric measurements were performed at a water stage of 380-384 cm .

   1962, Miodrag Vukćević, “The Influence of High Water and river bed Instability on the Determination of the balance of Waters”, in OTS, page 150

4. countableuncountablemedicineThe act of sounding; auscultation

   Gastro-duodenal soundage revealed a normally functioning gall bladder .

   1949, American Journal of Tropical Medicine - Volume 29, Part 2, page 883

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   Soundage, inflation and gastric diaphany may give information as valuable as that obtained by radiography.

   1921, William MacLennan, A Manual of Diseases of the Stomach, page 90

   Ureteral soundage and retrograde pyelography may detect a calculus , papilloma or carcinoma in the ureter or abnormal appearance of the renal pelvis and kidney .

   2013, Julius Bauer, Differential Diagnosis of Internal Diseases, page 450

5. countableuncountablemedicineThe therapeutic application of sound waves.

   It is simple; for it is ordinarily nothing more than a skillful, uterine, therapeutical soundage.

   1888, G. Apostoli, “On the Treatment of Fibroid Tumours of the Uterus by Delectricity”, in The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery, page 209

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   The good results which may be obtained from simple soundage of the uterus in the treatment of sterility are not very well known .

   1937, International Surveys of Recent Advances in Obstetrics-gynecology, page 30

6. countableuncountableDues paid for soundings.