sounder

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /ˈsaʊndɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something or someone who makes a sound.
    — a telephone with an electronic sounder
  2. A device for making soundings at sea.
  3. A group of wild boar.
    — 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.
  4. An instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
  5. A person who takes soundings.
  6. A young boar.
  7. A stethoscope. dated,plural,plural-only
  8. A fishfinder.
  9. Synonym of sting (“brief musical sequence in television etc.”).
形容词 adj.
  1. comparative form of sound: more sound comparative,form-of
    — 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.

词形变化

sounders plural sounders plural sounders plural

词汇关系

衍生词
depth sounder echo sounder telegraph sounder

词源

词源 1
From Middle English *soundere, from Old English ġesundra, from Proto-Germanic *sundizô, equivalent to sound + -er (comparative suffix).
词源 2
From Middle English soundar, sownere, equivalent to sound + -er.
词源 3
From French sonder.
词源 4
Inherited from Middle English soundre, from Anglo-Norman soundre, Old Northern French sondre, from a Germanic language, probably Old English sunor (“herd of swine”), from Proto-West Germanic *suniʀu, plural of *sun (“swine, boar”), from Proto-Germanic *sunaz (“boar”), from Proto-Indo-European *sewH- (“to bring forth, bear, give birth”). Cognate with Dutch zeunie (“trough, drinking bowl”).
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