cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
spooning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoonings
Etymology: The sense denoting nestled repose is by metaphor with the way that spoons stack together compactly.
Senses: examples: text: Frederick alternated between sips of coffee and spoonings of raspberries.
ref: 1995, Ernest Hebert, Live Free Or Die, page 246:
glosses: The action of the verb to spoon
The act of picking something up with a spoon.
glosses: The action of the verb to spoon
The act of lying on their sides, nestled front-to-back on a bed.
Related terms: spoonlike
spoonwise
tilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English tillynge, tiliyng, tilyenge, tylynge, from Old English tiliende, tilġende, equivalent to till + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of till
tilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tillings
Etymology: From Middle English tyllynge, tiling, tilinge, telynge, from Old English tilung, teolung, equivalent to till + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The farmer's field requires regular tillings.
glosses: The act of one who tills.
fingerprinting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fingerprint
fingerprinting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fingerprintings
Senses: glosses: The act of recording an individual's fingerprints.
glosses: A test made to establish and confirm the properties of a material or components.
Derived terms: brain fingerprinting
brainwave fingerprinting
DNA fingerprinting
genetic fingerprinting
warding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ward
warding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wardings
Senses: examples: text: The study of defense mechanisms will remain incomplete so long as they are regarded chiefly as wardings off, renunciations and negative assertions.
ref: 1968, Digest of Neurology and Psychiatry:
glosses: The act of one who wards.
squicking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squick
terming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of term
umlauting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of umlaut
medaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: medalling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of medal
padlocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of padlock
filtering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of filter
Derived terms: hyperfiltering
filtering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filterings
Senses: glosses: The process of passing something through a filter.
examples: text: the filterings from the subsoils
ref: 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia:
text: Waking up in Langogne in a dim dawn, I felt in a strange sort of way more at home than I'd been for a long time in my own sadly altered version of home, even a year on from her death – especially in the first filterings of daylight […]
ref: 2006, Christopher Rush, To Travel Hopefully, page 146:
glosses: Something that passes through a filter.
Synonyms: filtrate
Derived terms: lane filtering
quicksilvering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quicksilver
quicksilvering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An amalgam of mercury and tin formerly applied to the backs of mirrors.
damning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæmɪŋ/
rhymes: -æmɪŋ
homophone: damming
Etymology: From Middle English dampnynge; equivalent to damn + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of damn
damning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæmɪŋ/
rhymes: -æmɪŋ
homophone: damming
Forms: form: more damning
form: most damning
Etymology: From Middle English dampnynge; equivalent to damn + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: damning evidence was clear for all to see
text: In terms of infrastructure, Frank says there has been better news in recent years, following a highly damning report prepared for the Friends of the Far North Line campaign group by consultant Tony Glazebrook [...].
ref: 2021 November 3, Paul Stephen, “As far north as you can go... to Thurso”, in RAIL, number 943, page 48:
glosses: Condemning.
Derived terms: damningly
undamning
damning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæmɪŋ/
rhymes: -æmɪŋ
homophone: damming
Forms: form: damnings
Etymology: From Middle English dampnynge; equivalent to damn + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: This elicited damnings from pulpit and press, and insured a healthy run.
ref: 2003, Richard Traubner, Operetta: A Theatrical History, page 338:
glosses: A condemnation.
examples: text: No man is believed a jot the more for all the asseverations, damnings, and swearings he makes.
ref: 1693 (date written), D. F. [pseudonym; Daniel Defoe], An Essay upon Projects, London: […] R. R. for Tho[mas] Cockerill, […], published 1697, →OCLC:
glosses: An act of swearing with the word "damn".
sainting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of saint
soldiering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of soldier
soldiering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soldierings
Senses: examples: text: Thus the two comrades came back from their soldierings to their humble homes, from which Lincoln was soon to start on the way marked out for him by Providence, with strides which no comrade, with whatever goodwill, might hope to follow.
ref: 1914, John George Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln: A History, volume 1:
text: All modern armies rely on veritable fleets of drones for routine soldiering (static garrisons, patrols, etc.).
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Vehicles: Combat Drones Codex entry:
glosses: The work of a soldier; military action.
dissenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dissent
dissenting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dissenting
form: most dissenting
Senses: glosses: Showing a strongly different opinion, belief, or viewpoint.
Derived terms: dissentingly
nondissenting
undissenting
repenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repent
repenting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repentings
Senses: examples: text: He reveals to the soul that conviction of sin, deep repentings, a sense of our utter helplessness, are not grounds of acceptance with Christ, but simply a consciousness of our spiritual wretchedness[…]
ref: 1932-1937, Arthur Pink, The Holy Spirit:
glosses: repentance
charting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chart
charting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chartings
Senses: examples: text: What the dentist sees is paramount here, and ideally what the dentist sees is not a body-orifice but precise structures, through mirrors and X-rays and probings and chartings.
ref: 1998, Margrit Shildrick, Janet Price, Vital Signs: Feminist Reconfigurations of the Bio/logical Body:
text: The research agenda followed in this edition takes up a range of problems that include authentic texts of his works, historical accounts defining his period, facts about his life, chartings of his artistic and psychological development, […]
ref: 2005, Michael D. Bristol, Big-Time Shakespeare:
glosses: The act by which something is charted.
dismounting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dismount
dismounting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dismountings
Senses: examples: text: The stage we had now commenced was eighteen miles in length; but the frequent mountings and dismountings, to climb or to descend the rocky sides of the mountains, made it appear much longer.
ref: 1834, John Dunmore Lang, An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales:
glosses: The act of one who dismounts.
embarking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embark
embarking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embarkings
Senses: glosses: An embarkation.
franking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frankings
Senses: glosses: A device or marking such as postage stamp, printed or stamped impressions, codings, labels, manuscript writings, or any other authorized form of markings affixed or applied to mails to qualify them to be postally serviced.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A corporate tax system in which some or all of the tax paid by a company may be attributed, or imputed, to the shareholders by way of a tax credit to reduce the income tax payable on a distribution.
Derived terms: franking machine
franking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frank
motioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of motion
motioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motionings
Senses: examples: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
By gesture she was pretending and by words and by the scarcely perceptible motionings of her eyelids […]
glosses: movement
mooting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mootings
Etymology: From Middle English motinge, moting, from Old English mōtung, equivalent to moot + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: In this he had been guided, not by the mootings of lawyers, not by the reveries of pamphlets, not by the conversation of coffee-houses, but by the opinions of minds that were fitter to direct than to co-operate with such minds as his.
ref: 1806-1820, William Cobbett, Parliamentary History of England from the Norman conquest in 1066 to the Year 1803
glosses: The activity of taking part in a moot court.
mooting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From moot + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of moot
positioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of position
positioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: positionings
Senses: examples: text: As well as demonstrating operating facilities, full-size car body models are used for experimenting with new types of interior finish, systems of lighting, positioning of route diagrams and advertisements, and the best form of windscreens at doorways, and the height and location of handgrips and handrails.
ref: 1951 October, “Models Assist Rolling Stock Design”, in Railway Magazine, page 647:
text: If you are following a book like Starting Electronics, however, a breadboard is even more useful. […] Differences lie between breadboards in the spacings and the positionings of the holes, and the number of holes in each group.
ref: 2011 August 2, Keith Brindley, Starting Electronics, page 18:
glosses: The act of positioning; placement.
Derived terms: autopositioning
equipositioning
geopositioning
global positioning system
micropositioning
mispositioning
nanopositioning
positioning time
prone positioning
retropositioning
seropositioning
superpositioning
scotching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scotch
counseling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counselings
form: counselling
Senses: glosses: Assistance (especially from a professional) in the resolution of personal difficulties.
Derived terms: anticounseling
co-counseling
cybercounseling
e-counseling
e-counselling
microcounseling
telecounseling
counseling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counselling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counsel
auctioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of auction
dreading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɛdɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dread
obtunding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of obtund
occasioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of occasion
cacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cack
perverting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pervert
convicting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of convict
quelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quell
quelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quellings
Senses: examples: text: There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “Retribution”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 594:
glosses: The act by which something is quelled.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: RNA interference.
quelling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quelling
form: most quelling
Senses: glosses: causing something to quell or be quelled
aggrouping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aggroup
awarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of award
awarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: awardings
Senses: examples: text: Printed programs for solemn events such as church services, commencements, funerals and memorial services, dedications, and awardings of social recognition of one sort or another often list genres of talk […]
ref: 2003, Arthur C. Graesser, Morton Ann Gernsbacher, Susan R. Goldman, Handbook of Discourse Processes:
glosses: The act of bestowing an award.
glosses: The act of giving by official decision such as giving a contract.
Derived terms: contract awarding
turnkeying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turnkey
nesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛstɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛstɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nest
Derived terms: nonnesting
nesting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛstɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛstɪŋ
Forms: form: nestings
Senses: synonyms: nestage
glosses: The process by which a bird nests.
examples: text: the nesting of Russian dolls
glosses: An arrangement by which one thing is nested inside another.
examples: text: The positioning of a control structure inside another control structure is called nesting e.g. nested-IF and nested-loop.
ref: 2013 September 10, Sara Shahzad, Ibrar Ahmad, Mir Muhammd Suleman Sarwar, “Cyclomatic complexity: The nesting problem”, in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2013) (PDF), Islamabad, Pakistan: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, →DOI, archived from the original on 29 May 2023, page 275:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
synonyms: imbrication
glosses: The enclosure of one self-contained element of code inside another.
Derived terms: bird-nesting
empty nesting
nesting box
nesting doll
nesting ground
beeping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːpɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beep
beeping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːpɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːpɪŋ
Forms: form: beepings
Senses: glosses: An instance of beeping; a sound that beeps.
tristing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trist
exploiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exploit
foundering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of founder
foundering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: founderings
Senses: examples: text: It's the nature of founderings that ships have buoyancy and are afloat one second, then lose buoyancy and sink the next.
ref: 2004, Mark L. Thompson, Graveyard of the Lakes:
glosses: The act by which a vessel founders.
whacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whack
whacking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 1762, Thomas Bridges, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, London: S. Hooper, 1772, Book 7 of Homer’s Iliad, p. 289,
[…] all our grannies tell us how
He kill’d a whacking great dun cow;
text: 1819, Olivia Clarke, The Irishwoman. A Comedy in Five Acts, London: H. Colburn, Act V, Scene 2, p. 80,
[…] these two whacking Irish boys, that I was telling you of just now, are posted at the hall door to seize the villain, and take him to pay his respects to the next sitting magistrate […]
text: […] beside them clung a trumpeter, a whacking big man, an’ between the heavy seas he would lift his trumpet with one hand, and blow a call; and every time he blew the men gave a cheer.
ref: 1895, Arthur Quiller-Couch, “The Roll-Call of the Reef”, in Wandering Heath: Stories, Studies, and Sketches, London: Cassell & Co., published 1896, page 13:
text: He was what they call a Hard-shell Baptist in those parts, with a long, shaven upper lip and a whacking appetite, and a sort of superior look, as if he didn't expect to see many of us hereafter […]
ref: 1903, F. Marion Crawford, Man Overboard!, New York: Macmillan, pages 81–82:
text: There was no secret in Genoa about the destination of the little tramp with the peculiar equipment of lifeboats and davits—two whacking great motor boats each as big as a Navy pinnace, each with a couple of hundred horse-power in her.
ref: 1926, Neville Shute, chapter 5, in Marazan, London: Cassell & Co.:
text: If any of you want a whacking lot of experience, lots of thrills to the minute and can pay your own freight, sign up for that trip to the land of the Northern Lights.
ref: 1932, Delta Sigma Delta-Desmos, volume 38, page 151:
text: He seizes on an opportunity to buy a house at a repo-auction, planning to sell it on for a whacking profit.
ref: 2004 February 27, Peter Bradshaw, “House of Sand and Fog”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Exceptionally large; whopping (often followed by an adjective such as great or big).
whacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whackings
Senses: glosses: A beating.
glosses: Alternative form of waacking (“dance style”).
porking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pork
protocoling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of protocol
sectioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of section
sectioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sectionings
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: segmentation
glosses: A division into sections.
examples: text: Nevertheless, some work reports that black women are overrepresented, comprising up to half of the sectionings […]
ref: 2005, Gill Aitken, Pam Alldred, Robin Allwood, Psychology, Discourse And Social Practice: From Regulation To Resistance:
qualifier: mental health
glosses: An instance of a person being sectioned.
Related terms: subsectioning
yoinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yoink
foiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔɪlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foil
foiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: foilings
Senses: examples: the foilings of our expectations
glosses: The act by which something is foiled; prevention of success.
topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: The track of game, such as deer, in the grass.
topics: architecture
glosses: A foil.
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: hydrofoiling
flying
glosses: Clipping of hydrofoiling (“the action of sustained hydrodynamic lift on hydrofoils lifting the vessel hull lifted out of the water, for sustained motion across water”).
Derived terms: wing foiling
forwarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forward
forwarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forwardings
Senses: examples: text: A third oil company, Gulf, is soon to join Esso and BP in rail forwardings from this port.
ref: 1964 November, “News: Upward trend in South Wales”, in Modern Railways, page 349:
text: You might think that the GatewayPorts feature discussed in the last section applies equally well to remote port forwardings. This would make sense as a feature, but as it happens, it isn't done.
ref: 2005, Daniel J. Barrett, Richard E. Silverman, Robert G. Byrnes, SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide:
glosses: The act by which something is forwarded.
Derived terms: auto-forwarding
call forwarding
forwarding address
port forwarding
frothing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of froth
Derived terms: frothingly
frothing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frothings
Senses: examples: frothings at the mouth
glosses: The act of something that froths.
harboring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of harbor
pocketing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pocketings
form: pocketting
Senses: examples: text: By their count, the senator's illicit pocketings of money hugely exceeded Garfield's.
ref: 1994, Edward Chalfant, Better in Darkness: A Biography of Henry Adams, page 408:
glosses: The act of something being taken (usually illicitly purloined).
examples: text: Avoid stiff pocketings of 100 percent polyester. To reduce bulk, cut linings for patch pockets from lining fabric rather than self-fabric.
ref: 2011, Creative Publishing International, Tailoring: The Classic Guide to Sewing the Perfect Jacket, page 27:
glosses: Material used for making pockets for clothing.
examples: text: Vampire bats are capable of perceiving infrared radiation (heat) through the pocketings in their noseleaves that can allow them to find a feeding spot on their prey that is well supplied with blood vessels.
ref: 2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Mammalogy, page 23:
glosses: A structure resembling a pocket or pouch.
pocketing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pocketting
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pocket
contacting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑntæktɪŋ/
ipa: /kənˈtæktɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɒntæktɪŋ/
ipa: /kənˈtæktɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of contact
headbutting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of headbutt
unchaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈt͡ʃeɪnɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unchain
delaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of delay
delaying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delayings
Senses: examples: text: […] a hearing, with a file of orders in the solicitor's bundle, as big as the common-prayer-book, for commissions, injunctions, publications, speedings, delayings, and other interlocutories; all dear ware to the client in every respect.
ref: 1826, Roger North, The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford; the Hon. Sir Dudley North; and the Hon. and Rev. Dr. John North:
text: However, there was no profit in cowardly delayings; booted and breeched, we sallied forth into a cold, ungenial morning such as you get in Switzerland […]
ref: 1909, Reginald Farrer, In a Yorkshire Garden:
glosses: A delay.
loafing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of loaf
Derived terms: loafingly
loafing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loafings
Senses: glosses: The idle behaviour of somebody who loafs.
glosses: The act of catloafing.
Derived terms: cyberloafing
social loafing
soaping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of soap
soaping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soapings
Senses: glosses: A cleaning with soap.
Derived terms: mouth soaping
stationing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of station
stationing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stationings
Senses: glosses: the putting in a place to perform military duty
ploughing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ploughings
form: plowing
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
hypernyms: tillage
coordinate_terms: harrowing#Noun
glosses: The breaking of the ground into furrows (with a plough) for planting.
ploughing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plowing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plough
harbingering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of harbinger
stranding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strand
stranding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strandings
Senses: examples: text: All of these factors increase the probability of stranding and the severity of the consequences. Since 2011, there have been several strandings that resulted in unplanned evacuations, because the passengers became desperate from personal discomfort or lack of confidence of being rescued.
ref: 2023 May 3, David Bradley, “Driver Only Operation should depend on passenger density”, in RAIL, number 982, page 62:
glosses: The act or occasion by which somebody or something is stranded.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The act or occasion by which somebody or something is stranded.
Leaving (a word or phrase) without any expressed complement, or allowing (it) to go without one.
raw_tags: of a word or phrase that can take a complement
Related terms: strandability
strandable
unstrandable
mordanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mordant
mordanting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mordantings
Senses: glosses: The use of mordant to fix a dye to a fibre.
prepending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prepend
prepending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prependings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is prepended.
shielding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shield
shielding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shieldings
Senses: qualifier: spectroscopy
glosses: The situation, in NMR spectroscopy, in which a local magnetic field is weakened by the presence of neighbouring nuclei
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Action done by the person with the ball to protect the ball from the defender; the person concerned keeps his body between the ball and the defender.
Synonyms: sense: soccer action
word: screening
Derived terms: radiation shielding
shielding constant
targeting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more targeting
form: most targeting
form: targetting
Senses: glosses: Involved in the transportation or correct positioning of a protein inside or outside a specific region of the cell.
targeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: targetings
form: targetting
Senses: glosses: An instance of targeting.
Derived terms: microtargeting
targeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: targetting
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of target
orphaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of orphan
leveling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: levelling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of level
leveling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: levelings
form: levelling
Senses: examples: text: In the meantime, the Castilian of northern and central Spain, while retaining most of the traits of the pre-Columbian period, underwent changes and levelings, some of which were shared by the South and hence by America.
ref: 1981, D. Lincoln Canfield, Spanish Pronunciation in the Americas:
glosses: The process of making something level.
topics: archaeology
geography
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
sciences
surveying
glosses: The process of measuring levels to establish heights and altitudes.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of paradigm leveling, the replacement of irregular forms by regular forms.
Derived terms: antileveling
automatic leveling system
leveling effect
leveling seat
leveling staff
paradigm leveling
wear leveling
assenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of assent
traying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tray
rewarding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Giving or resulting in reward or satisfaction.
rewarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reward
tricking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trick
tricking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪkɪŋ
Forms: form: trickings
Senses: examples: text: Go get us properties / And tricking for our fairies.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], line 77:
glosses: Dress; ornament.
tricking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪkɪŋ
Forms: form: more tricking
form: most tricking
Senses: examples: text: [I]t is the degenerate fondness for tricking short-cuts, and little fallacious facilities, that has in so many parts of the world created governments with arbitrary powers.
ref: 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France:
glosses: Deceptive; using trickery.
fettering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fetter
fettering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fetterings
Senses: examples: text: A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past, or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.
ref: 1927, Bertrand Russell, “What We Must Do”, in Why I Am Not a Christian:
text: Through this book's exploration of various kinds of fetterings and of one method for thinking beyond them, I want to demonstrate the unique and unfettered hope of the Christian faith.
ref: 2003, Marva J. Dawn, Unfettered Hope, page xii:
glosses: The act by which something is fettered or constricted.
blimping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blimp
deducting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deduct
dwarfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dwarf
dwarfing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dwarfings
Senses: examples: text: Such intentional dwarfings of the human figure can carry different political valences, depending on the work that frames them.
ref: 2011, Scott W. Klein, Michael Valdez Moses, A Modernist Cinema: Film Art from 1914 to 1941, page 248:
glosses: The situation where something is made to seem (relatively) small or unimportant.
contorting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of contort
befriending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of befriend
befriending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: befriendings
Senses: glosses: The process of making friends with somebody.
Derived terms: unbefriending
wrecking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wreck
wrecking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wreckings
Senses: examples: text: The propriety of the dissolution, too, was speedily seen in the improved state of the public peace: for twelve years we hear little of Orange riots, and nothing of such burnings and wreckings as those of Maghera, Maghery, and Annahagh.
ref: 1850, The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal, volume 91, page 93:
glosses: The act by which something is wrecked.
glosses: The taking of valuables from a shipwreck close to the shore.
Derived terms: wrecking amendment
wrecking ball
wrecking bar
wrecking car
wrecking pump
wrecking yard
mastering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mastering
form: most mastering
Derived terms: masteringly
mastering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masterings
Senses: glosses: Becoming professional in the use of something; developing mastery.
examples: text: In considering this whole roster of performances on record, the technical proficiency of the latest ones is unbrookable, and so is the dazzling clarity of the modern digital masterings […]
ref: 2007, Alan Blyth, Choral Music on Record, page 263:
glosses: The process by which an audio recording is mastered.
Derived terms: audio mastering
bus mastering
Dungeon Mastering
game mastering
mastering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of master
darning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of darn
Derived terms: darning egg
darning last
darning mushroom
darning needle
darning wool
darning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: darnings
Senses: examples: text: Who has told of the turnings, the dyings, the ironings, the darnings, that have gone to make misses of ten pounds a-year pin-money look as smart as the squanderer of five hundred?
ref: 1839, Frances Trollope, chapter I, in The Widow Barnaby. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 15:
glosses: A repair made by darning.
Derived terms: devil's darning needle
harbouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of harbour
cheeking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃiːkɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cheek
compounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of compound
compounding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compoundings
Senses: examples: text: the number of compoundings per year
glosses: An accumulation of compound interest.
examples: text: Arthur Pendennis, his son, was eight years old at the time of this event, so that it is no wonder that the latter, who left Bath and the surgery so young, should forget the existence of such a place almost entirely, and that his father’s hands had ever been dirtied by the compounding of odious pills, or the preparation of filthy plasters
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 2, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of mixing or combining substances to make a compound, such as a medicine
examples: text: Superheating, first introduced with the "Abs", stopped further development in compounding, in New Zealand as elsewhere, and the "Abs" succeeded in dealing with the growing traffic unaided for more than a decade.
ref: 1954 August, J. B. Snell, “The New Zealand Government Railways—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 561:
glosses: The use of steam more than once in a steam engine or turbine, in additional low-pressure cylinders etc.
Derived terms: subcompounding
culling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cull
culling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌlɪŋ
Forms: form: cullings
Senses: examples: text: It is he who has done everything the club have asked of him since his arrival, including overseeing the brutal culling of many of the club's legends - Luis Suarez was thrown away in a phone call which, by all accounts, lasted less than 90 seconds.
ref: 2021 September 22, Guillem Balagué, “Barcelona: The toxic battle ripping apart a European giant”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The act by which things are culled; the process of selecting for acceptance or removal.
glosses: Anything separated or selected from a mass.
Derived terms: z-culling
orgasming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of orgasm
delighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of delight
showering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shower
showering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: showerings
Senses: examples: text: Ovington heard the man's lightly treading step pass away over the lawn, the shrubbery brushed against him noisily, and then the silence slipped back over the place and the faintly moving air shook the fountain into light showerings of spray […]
ref: 1918, Max Brand, John Ovington Returns:
glosses: Something that falls in a shower.
booing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booings
Senses: examples: text: How is women's music to be defined for the purpose of holding a national women's music festival? In the past five years, the festival apparently experienced controversy due to contrasting definitions of women's music. There were walkouts and booings of performers who didn't fit within the limitations of some audience members' concepts of women's music.
ref: 1979 August 18, Maida Tilchen, “The Diversity of Women's Music”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 5, page 9:
text: The riot sometimes spills over into the audience, and Kosky bears the proud scars of the booings he has endured.
ref: 2010, Peter Conrad, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 52
glosses: A disapproving exclamation by a member of an audience.
booing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of boo
inverting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of invert
inverting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That inverts.
Derived terms: inverting function
inverting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invertings
Senses: glosses: The act of something being inverted; an inversion.
unmounting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unmount
umounting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of umount
blooping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bloop
intuiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intuit
intuiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intuitings
Senses: examples: text: Sensations then, are not perceivings, observings or findings; they are not detectings, scannings or inspectings; they are not apprehendings, cognisings, intuitings or knowings.
ref: 2009, Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind: 60th Anniversary Edition, page 194:
glosses: An instance of intuition.
lulling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lull
mewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mew
mewing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mewings
Senses: examples: text: The mewings of the three kittens kept us awake for most of the night.
glosses: The act of producing a mew sound.
examples: text: Some people say that mewing may allow for a better jawline.
glosses: The practice of flattening one's tongue against the roof of the mouth with the aim of improving jaw and facial structure.
muffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: In the sexual sense, popularized by Mira Bellwether's 2010 zine "Fucking Trans Women".
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of muff
muffing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muffings
Etymology: In the sexual sense, popularized by Mira Bellwether's 2010 zine "Fucking Trans Women".
Senses: glosses: The making of a mistake or gaffe.
examples: text: Muffing is a penetration technique enjoyed by some non-op trans women. It involves fingering (or otherwise penetrating) the inguinal canals, the canals through which the testes drop during puberty. […] Sometimes the testes are pushed back up into the body during muffing, and sometimes they're simply moved aside […]
ref: 2015, Allison Moon, Girl Sex 101, Allison Moon, →ISBN, page 153:
text: […] she says she and her partner were having a great time last night and she really enjoyed the muffing.
ref: 2018, Eric Yarbrough, Transgender Mental Health, page 177:
glosses: Penetration of the inguinal canal (e.g. with a finger, or by pushing the testicle back inside it) as a form of sexual activity among trans women and other people with testicles.
mulling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mull
mulling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mullings
Senses: examples: text: My mullings over where to go with my life, and now also where to go after Phuket island, incorporated what I saw in my everyday walks […]
ref: 2001, Charles Stickney, World Enough: Travel Memoirs, page 333:
glosses: The act of one who mulls or thinks over something.
Synonyms: consideration
pealing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːlɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
homophone: peeling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of peal
pealing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːlɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
homophone: peeling
Forms: form: pealings
Senses: examples: text: Then when the words were said, and man's form had tried to sanctify that which was already divine, we walked amid the pealings of the “Wedding March” into the vestry[…]
ref: 1895, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters:
glosses: The sound made by bells as they peal.
pithing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pith
reaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ream
reaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reamings
Senses: glosses: The act or process of something being reamed.
redacting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redact
snicking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snick
swanking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swank
trawling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trawlings
Senses: glosses: A commercial fishing technique in which a net is dragged by a moving boat. Not to be confused with trolling, which drags (one or more) lines.
examples: text: No longer would he have to fear the deportation of Gerald Haxton, who as an American was constantly running that risk in his trawlings through the bars of London.
ref: 2011, Christopher Hitchens, Arguably:
glosses: A laborious search.
Derived terms: bottom trawling
pair trawling
Related terms: trawl
trawler
trawling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trawl
vamping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vamp
vamping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vampings
Senses: examples: text: It is not only the baleful vampings of the fundamental Christians (the Creationists) that remain opposed to the Darwinian view, but also (and much more significantly) a subjective anthropocentrism that refuses to move over willingly or easily […]
ref: 2001, David Barry Desmond Asker, Aspects of Metamorphosis, page 53:
glosses: The behaviour of one who vamps.
intering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interring
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inter
contesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of contest
Derived terms: contestingly
contesting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contestings
Senses: examples: text: With regard to these disputes, doubts, and contestings, of the early and the later times of the Republic, I may be allowed to note this: that we may easily wonder how they could have been raised by persons not foreign to the city, but who belonged to those same families the members of which formed part of the government of the Republic.
ref: 1888, Camillo Boito, The Basilica of S. Mark in Venice, page 154:
glosses: The act of one who contests something; a disputation.
surrendering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of surrender
surrendering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surrenderings
Senses: glosses: An act of surrender.
avowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of avow
bailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
homophone: baling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bail
bailing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
homophone: baling
Forms: form: bailings
Senses: examples: text: He took a bucket and bailed the muddy stuff out right to the bottom, and let it fill up to be again bailed out. After three bailings the water came in cold, sweet, and pure as crystal.
ref: 1903, Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages:
glosses: The act by which something is bailed.
blurting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blurt
blurting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blurtings
Senses: examples: text: The school often has far more information than parents realise, e.g. from the blurtings of the child and his peers, the behaviour of the parents, and what the school bus driver has seen.
ref: 2012, Jonathan O.H. Williams, Peter D. Hill, A Handbook for the Assessment of Children's Behaviours, page 371:
glosses: Something that is blurted, or spoken hastily without thinking.
champing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of champ
champing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: champings
Senses: examples: text: When I passed them each a plate of the fried meat, they ate greedily, making loud mouth-noises — champings of worn teeth and sucking intakes of the breath, accompanied by a continuous spluttering and mumbling.
ref: 1906, Jack London, The White Man's Way:
glosses: The sound or action of one who champs (bites or chews).
champing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of church + camping; a concept promoted by The Churches Conservation Trust, a British charity that protects historic churches. Registered in the UK as a trademark in 2015.
Senses: glosses: The practice of camping overnight in historic churches as a novelty or part of a holiday.
Related terms: glamping
cleating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cleat
concerting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of concert