Sounding-board meaning

The definition of a sounding board is a person you run things by, or someone you turn to for advice.

An example of a sounding board is your mother, to whom you tell problems or ideas and have discussions with about those ideas or about possible solutions to the problems you are having.

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A person or group whose reactions to an idea, opinion, or point of view serve as a measure of its effectiveness or acceptability.
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A thin board that forms part of the resonating chamber of a musical instrument and serves to reinforce its sound.
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A structure that reflects sound towards the intended listeners.
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(by extension) Any device or means used to spread an idea or point of view.
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A person, or group, whose reactions to a new idea or proposal serve to assess its acceptability.
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Alternative spelling of sounding board.
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A device or means serving to spread or popularize an idea or a point of view.
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Sounding-board Sentence Examples

  • He won't talk about the nightmares; at least to me, but the shrink must be a sounding board.

  • One of the electrodes was attached to a sounding board capable of being vibrated by sound-waves and the other was held either by springs or weights in delicate contact with it.

  • When the sounding board was spoken to or subjected to sound-waves, the mechanical resistance of the loose electrode, due to its weight, or the spring, or both, served to vary the pressure at the contact, and this gave to the current a form corresponding to the sound-waves, and it was therefore capable of being used as a speaking-telephone transmitter.'

  • This was the society to which Luther spoke, and its discontent was the sounding board which made his words reverberate."

  • The choir-stalls and screen (1510) are finely carved, and of further interest are the ancient pulpit sounding-board (1432), some old stained glass, and the small models of ships, copies dating from 1638 of yet earlier models originally presented by the Dutch-Swedish Trading Company.

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