cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
concerting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concertings
Senses: examples: text: They placed too much reliance too soon on global concertings of international actions by multilateral means.
ref: 1979, The Development Coordination Committee, Washington, D.C, Development Issues: U.S. Actions Affecting the Development of Low-Income Countries, page 228:
text: Early concertings establish a joint repertoire of concerted activity for the primary caregiver and the infant. Much of this joint repertoire will be nuts-and-bolts-type concertings common to all caregivers and infants […]
ref: 2004, Derek Melser, The Act of Thinking, page 65:
glosses: Concerted activity; something done together by two or more people.
cratering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crater
cratering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craterings
Senses: examples: text: Is the Minister in a position to give the results of ithe Garda investigation of the two latest allegations of deliberate crossings and craterings of Irish roads?
ref: 1971, Ireland. Oireachtas. Dáil, Parliamentary debates; official report: - Volume 256, page 602:
text: Major craterings are quite apparent on the older and non-reworked faces of the other planets and their satellites.
ref: 2010, John Engledew, The Tungus Event, Or, The Great Siberian Meteorite, →ISBN, page 144:
text: Many of the building fronts bore the pockmarks of rifle or machine gun fire; a few showed the larger craterings of aircraft cannon, and an occasional pile of nibble showed the effects of artillery or bombs.
ref: 2015, Michael Kurland, The Whenabouts of Burr, →ISBN, page 135:
text: The moon also hangs as an inhospitable, cold companion in the night, a grim ball that shows many signs of craterings on its surface but not the great number we see now.
ref: 2017, Randall Dean Bryhn, The Chronicles of MU, →ISBN:
glosses: The creation of a crater on a surface.
digesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of digest
disarming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disarming
form: most disarming
Senses: examples: text: a disarming smile
text: Foremost in her arsenal is that smile – so enormous and so absurdly disarming that someone should have worked out a way to harness its power into international conflict resolution.
ref: 2014 January 21, Hermione Hoby, “Julia Roberts interview for August: Osage County – 'I might actually go to hell for this ...': Julia Roberts reveals why her violent, Oscar-nominated performance in August: Osage County made her feel 'like a terrible person' [print version: 'I might actually go to hell for this ...' (18 January 2014, p. R4)]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
glosses: Charming; likely to put one at ease.
Derived terms: disarmingly
disarmingness
disarming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disarm
discounting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discountings
Senses: examples: text: It is human to have experienced losses, defeats, put-downs, snubs, rejections, criticisms, and discountings.
ref: 1997, Luciano L'Abate, The Self in the Family, page 131:
text: In Excerpts 15 and 16, G more directly claims and imputes knowledge as means for substantiating her position, relying on these alternative resources in responding to S's discountings and withholdings and thereby legitimizing her pursuit.
ref: 2012, Wayne A. Beach, Conversations About Illness, page 49:
text: Negative theology, by being overwhelmingly preoccupied with delineating what God is not (He does not possess knowledge the way human beings possess knowledge; He is not powerful in hte ways that human beings are powerful, etc.), confronts the paradox that unless there is some conceptually accessible core to God's Essence all of negative theology's disownings and discountings of God's attributes seem to lack an object to be about.
ref: 2013, Aryeh Botwinick, Emmanuel Levinas and the Limits to Ethics:
glosses: The act or process of discounting;
The act or process of dismissing from consideration.
examples: text: Similarly, discountings by FICBs are available only for short- and intermediate-term agricultural loans but not for the wide range of other rural credit needs.
ref: 1972, Business Conditions: Seventh Federal Reserve District, page 16:
text: Many of the ACC's planned to increase FICB discountings during coming years.
ref: 1975, Improved Fund Availability at Rural Banks, page 50:
text: In economic evaluations, this time preference is taken into account by ariations of rates of discount or discountings, which in most cases depend on the current average interest rates.
ref: 2012, Detlef Schwefel, Herbert Zöllner, Peter Potthoff, Costs and Effects of Managing Chronic Psychotic Patients, page 1961:
glosses: The act or process of discounting;
The act or process of deducting part of a charge, debt, etc.
Derived terms: antidiscounting
discounting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discount
feigning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of feign
Derived terms: feigningly
unfeigning
feigning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪnɪŋ
Forms: form: feignings
Senses: glosses: Act of one who feigns; fakery; deceit.
feinting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of feint
fellowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fellow
fending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fend
fouling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaʊlɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊlɪŋ
homophone: fowling
Senses: examples: text: A new type of fouling point indicator is being tried out by the London Transport Executive. Until now the standard method of indicating the point nearest to a junction of two stabling roads where a train can stand without fouling the adjacent road has been by fixing the letters "FP" [fouling point] to the sleepers of the road concerned.
ref: 1952 August, “London Transport Fouling Point Indicators”, in Railway Magazine, page 546:
glosses: present participle and gerund of foul
fouling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaʊlɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊlɪŋ
homophone: fowling
Forms: form: foulings
Senses: examples: text: Probably, rifling evolved from the early observation of the feathers on an arrow-and from the practical results of cutting channels in a musket, originally to reduce fouling, then because it was found to improve accuracy of the shot.
ref: 1949, Albert Manucy, “The Era of Artillery § Rifling”, in Artillery Through the Ages[:] A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America, Reprint 1985 edition, page 14:
glosses: The adhesion of a foreign material onto a surface, especially so as to reduce its functionality.
Derived terms: antifouling
biofouling
foulant
macrofouling
microfouling
nonfouling
frisking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɪskɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪskɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frisk
frisking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɪskɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪskɪŋ
Forms: form: friskings
Senses: synonyms: frisk#Noun
patdown#Noun
glosses: The act or an instance of checking someone's clothes and body for weapons or contraband.
examples: text: They are no longer to be amused according to custom, as a mob with the cant of a mountebank, and the leapings, friskings, gambols, and stale jests of tumblers and clowns.
ref: 1809, Eaton Stannard Barrett, The setting sun:
glosses: The action or motion of one who frisks; a gambol.
coveting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of covet
coveting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: covetings
Senses: examples: text: In the meantime, by the light of this discourse, we clearly see why God so highly prizeth zealous covetings and desires in men after spiritual things […]
ref: 1867, John Goodwin, Pleroma to Pneumatikon:
glosses: The act of one who covets.
knackering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of knacker
knapsacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of knapsack
larding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lard
larding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lardings
Senses: examples: text: With a small knife or larding pin, cut holes in the beef, to receive the bacon thus prepared; place the lardings tolerably thick and even; rub the beef over with the remainder of the seasoning […]
ref: 1819, The Ladies' Literary Cabinet:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
synonyms: lardon
glosses: Bacon or pork stuffed into other meat before cooking.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Fat or grease used to lard something.
Derived terms: larding needle
looming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːmɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlumɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːmɪŋ
Forms: form: loomings
Etymology: From loom + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: But if no world exist in the man; if nothing but continents of empty vapour, of greedy self-conceits, commonplace hearsays, and indistinct loomings of a sordid chaos exist in him, what will be the use of 'light' to show us that?
ref: 1850 May 1, Thomas Carlyle, “No. V. Stump-Orator.”, in Latter-Day Pamphlets, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 155:
glosses: gerund of loom: the condition of something that looms or towers.
looming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːmɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlumɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːmɪŋ
Etymology: From loom + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of loom
mustering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of muster
mustering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musterings
Senses: examples: text: They are demonstrations in the literal sense: musterings of potential voters, beauty pageants of potential contributors, inventories of the ethnic loyalties that count most in a metropolitan area of a thousand intermingled peoples.
ref: 2008 June 1, Paul Vitello, “For Parade Celebrating Israel, an Effort to Include Those Closest to It”, in New York Times:
glosses: A bringing together, as of livestock for counting.
pelting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pelt
pelting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peltings
Senses: examples: text: […] the rain began to pour down in torrents, and we exposed our persons to the peltings of the shower rather than have our few books and remaining dry clothes injured.
ref: 1830, Baptist Missionary Magazine, volume 10, page 88:
glosses: The act by which somebody or something is pelted.
pelting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pelting
form: most pelting
Etymology: Related to paltry.
Senses: examples: text: I pray you, let us see you in the field;
We have had pelting wars since you refused
The Grecians' cause.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
text: Could great men thunder
As Ioue himſelfe do's, Ioue vvould neuer be quiet
For euery pelting petty Officer
VVould vſe his heauen for thunder;
Nothing but thunder: […]
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 68, column 1:
glosses: mean; paltry
psalming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of psalm
punking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpʌŋkɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of punk
recruiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recruit
recruiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recruitings
Senses: glosses: The process by which a person is recruited; recruitment.
Derived terms: social recruiting
remarking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remark
reprimanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reprimand
retarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retard
retarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retardings
Senses: examples: text: It resembled them in the sense that it was not ended, when it was past, but continued to unfold, in Watt's head, from beginning to end, over and over again, the complex connexions of its lights and shadows, the passing from silence to sound and from sound to silence, the stillness before the movement and the stillness after, the quickenings and retardings, the approaches and the separations, all the shifting detail of its march and ordinance, according to the irrevocable caprice of its taking place.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: A slowing or hindrance.
Derived terms: retarding basin
rioting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of riot
rioting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riotings
Senses: glosses: A riot.
shelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shell
shelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛlɪŋ
Forms: form: shellings
Senses: glosses: An artillery bombardment.
glosses: The removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc.
glosses: Grain from which the husk has been removed.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: An ordering of the facets of a boundary complex such that the intersection of each facet (other than the first) with the union of all preceding facets is homeomorphic to a ball or sphere. See Shelling (topology)
glosses: Shallow, irregular cracks that appear on the surface of a coating such as plaster or mortar.
Derived terms: sea shelling
shrouding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The signal was given by shrouding the lights.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 45:
glosses: present participle and gerund of shroud
shrouding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shroudings
Senses: glosses: A shroud (annular plate at the periphery of a water wheel, forming side of bucket).
squirting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squirt
squirting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squirtings
Senses: examples: text: Someone had attempted to make the foul ambience less offensive by liberal squirtings with a sickly sweet freshener.
ref: 2010, Caroline Graham, A Place of Safety:
glosses: The act of something being squirted.
Derived terms: squirting cucumber
starching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of starch
starking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stark
steeping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of steep
steeping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steepings
Senses: examples: text: It is usual to expect, that the first two or three wettings or steepings of grain, at the commencement of the malting season, will not make so good malt as succeeding steepings […]
ref: 1838, George Adolphus Wigney, An Elementary Dictionary, Or, Cyclopaediae, for the Use of Maltsters, Brewers &c., page 28:
glosses: An instance of something being steeped; a wetting.
steeping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steepings
form: stephening
form: steping
Etymology: From the name of Stephen de Fulbourn, who served as bishop of Waterford, archbishop of Tuam, and treasurer and justiciar of Ireland in the 1270s and 1280s.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: A 13th-century coin circulated in Ireland as a debased sterling silver penny, outlawed under King Edward I.
Synonyms: Bishop's money
scalding
stalding
Related terms: sense: 13th-c. counterfeit coin
word: pollard
sense: 13th-c. counterfeit coin
word: rosary
sense: 13th-c. counterfeit coin
word: mitre
sense: 13th-c. counterfeit coin
word: leonine
sense: 13th-c. counterfeit coin
word: crockard
sense: 13th-c. counterfeit coin
word: eagle
stenographing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stenograph
subverting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subvert
tainting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪntɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of taint
telegraphing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of telegraph
telegraphing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telegraphings
Senses: examples: text: He was given three days to reconsider himself, and the Head of the establishment, after some telegraphings, said that it was a most unusual step […]
ref: 1887, Rudyard Kipling, In the Pride of his Youth:
glosses: A communication by telegraph.
tenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tent
tenting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tentings
Senses: glosses: Material used for making tents.
trolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɒlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtɹəʊlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtɹoʊlɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of troll
trolling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɒlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtɹəʊlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtɹoʊlɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊlɪŋ
Forms: form: trollings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who trolls (in various senses of provoking others).
glosses: A fishing technique in which one or more baited fishing lines are dragged by a moving boat. Not to be confused with trawling, which drags a net.
Derived terms: concern-trolling
do a little bit of trolling
do a little trolling
patent trolling
self-trolling
trolling-rod
tweaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tweak
tweaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tweakings
Senses: examples: text: The paintings seem concerned, if understatedly, about despoliation and other human tweakings of the landscape.
ref: 2007 July 13, Grace Glueck, “Something There Is That Doesn’t Love a Barrier”, in New York Times:
glosses: A tweak; a minor modification.
volunteering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act of voluntarily giving time and labor for charity or community service.
Related terms: community service
volunteering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of volunteer
vowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vow
wallowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wallow
wallowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wallowings
Senses: examples: text: He gives graphic descriptions of the terrors of the Last Judgement and the luxurious wallowings of the blessed in the physical pleasures of Paradise.
ref: 2012, Julian Baldick, Mystical Islam: An Introduction to Sufism, page 34:
glosses: The act of one who wallows.
wracking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wrack
wreathing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wreath
glosses: present participle and gerund of wreathe
wreathing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wreathings
Senses: examples: text: To have demolished and rebuilt the walls, would have been a very costly expedient, and as the least of two evils, the painter's brush was resorted to; here and there however, above some of the windows, the black wreathings of the smoke are still discernible through the white covering.
ref: 1823, John Morison Duncan, Duncan's Travels, published 2007, page 256:
glosses: The motion or pattern of something that wreaths.
wreathing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wreathing
form: most wreathing
Senses: examples: text: The ground rose on each side like a wall, but hung with natural tapestry—the creeping plants which in the South take such graceful and wreathing forms in their foliage.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 22:
glosses: Having a pattern that wreathes.
Derived terms: wreathingly
bewailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bewail
bewailing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bewailings
Senses: examples: text: We might have been!—these are but common words,
And yet they make the sum of life's bewailing;
They are the echo of those finer chords,
Whose music life deplores when unavailing,
We might have been!
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XXI. Lady Marchmont’s Journal.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 158:
text: No suggestions, no words, no bewailings could improve it. Still it was very human to make suggestions, and utter words, and make piteous bewailings over and over again.
ref: 1867, Annie Thomas, Called to Account:
glosses: The act of one who bewails something.
disowning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disown
addicting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈdɪktɪŋ/
Forms: form: more addicting
form: most addicting
Etymology: From addict + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: whether any of the substances possess addicting properties is very difficult to determine on animals, although efforts are being made to study this aspect of the problem on dogs and monkeys.
ref: 1936 June 1, Nathan Browne Eddy, quotee, “Morphine Substitutes”, in Time, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2010:
text: similar in action to codeine salts but when compared with codeine on the basis of weight is more active, and more addicting.
ref: 1950, Council on Drugs (American Medical Association) with Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association), New and Nonofficial Drugs, page 42:
text: When we didn't have narcotics laws, when we could go and buy this stuff like you could candy and potatoes, laudanum was a very addicting drug
ref: 1957, United States Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, Juvenile Delinquency (Treatment and Rehabilitation of Juvenile Drug Addicts), page 182:
text: Cocaine has been reconceptualized as our most addicting drug and crack is viewed as the most addicting form of cocaine
ref: 1992, Barbara C. Wallace, The Chemically Dependent: Phases of Treatment and Recovery, page 22:
text: That is why smoking and intravenous injection are the routes of administration chosen by addicted people and why these routes of administration are so much more addicting than is oral use of the same drug.
ref: 2000, Robert L. DuPont with Betty Ford, The Selfish Brain: Learning from Addiction, page 101:
glosses: Causing addiction.
Synonyms: addictive
moreish
Derived terms: addictingly
nonaddicting
non-addicting
readdicting
addicting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈdɪktɪŋ/
Etymology: From addict + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: For though in his Nature there is a Tendency to Rational Pleasures, yet this he may, and very frequently does, stifle and extinguish by addicting himself wholly to the Delights and Gratifications of his Sense
ref: 1686, John Scott, The Christian Life: From Its Beginning to Its Consummation in Glory, page 60:
text: Mr. Johnson's communication states that the preparation "has a large sale, and is addicting the public to its use"
ref: 1898, New York (State). Dept. of Health, Annual Report, page 371:
glosses: present participle and gerund of addict
uncorking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Reaching home he went up to his bedroom, shut the door as if he were going to be seen no more in this life, and taking a sheet of paper and uncorking the ink-bottle, he began a letter.
ref: 1872, [Thomas Hardy], “VIII: Dick Meets His Father”, in Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School, volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, →OCLC, part II, pages 25–26:
glosses: present participle and gerund of uncork
uncorking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uncorkings
Senses: glosses: The removal of a cork from a bottle or similar.
twinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of twink
furthering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of further
furthering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furtherings
Senses: examples: text: […] the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swims and makes his point or else is carried headlong.
ref: 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XV, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book II, page 266:
glosses: The act by which something is furthered; furtherance.
scapegoating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scapegoat
scapegoating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scapegoatings
Senses: examples: text: Nazi persecution of Jews, as with other scapegoatings, was focused, systematic and directly lethal. Other oppressions have been more long-term and uneven […]
ref: 1989, Alan Sinfield, Literature, Politics, and Culture in Postwar Britain, page 224:
glosses: The act of making somebody a scapegoat.
acquainting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of acquaint
contradicting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of contradict
contradicting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contradictings
Senses: glosses: An act of contradiction.
channeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of channel
channeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: channelings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of channelling.
Derived terms: dechanneling
proclaiming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of proclaim
proclaiming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proclaimings
Senses: examples: text: More than one of these dangerous proclaimings of loyalty to him rather than to the King had come to his ears.
ref: 1907, Ford Madox Ford, Privy Seal:
glosses: proclamation
adjourning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adjourn
plundering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plunder
plundering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plunderings
Senses: examples: text: Not all military exercises by human beings are forbidden. Rather, only disordered and dangerous military exercises that give rise to slayings and plunderings are forbidden.
ref: 2005, Michael L. Morgan, Classics of Moral and Political Theory, page 473:
glosses: The act of one who plunders; pillaging or looting; plunder.
Synonyms: spoliation
norming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of norm
norming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: normings
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The endowing of a vector space, etc. with a norm.
Derived terms: race-norming
scalping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scalp
scalping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scalpings
Etymology: From scalp (noun) + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The action by which someone is scalped.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A fraudulent form of market manipulation in which a person buys shares immediately before recommending the shares to others, thus driving the price up.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A legitimate method of arbitrage of small price gaps created by the bid-ask spread.
toenailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of toenail
cloistering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cloister
chiseling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chiselling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chisel
chiseling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chiselings
form: chiselling
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chiselling.
blackmailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blackmail
blackmailing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackmailings
Senses: examples: text: All the materials, therefore, existed for an interminable series of hagglings, bargainings, and blackmailings.
ref: 1934, Winston Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times (book 2, page 51)
glosses: The act of one who blackmails.
garlanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of garland
garlanding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garlandings
Senses: examples: text: It is beyond us, as we thread the ruined streets: above us, as we stand upon the ruined walls, we follow it through every vista of broken columns, as we wander through the empty court-yards of the houses; and through the garlandings and interlacings of every wanton vine.
ref: 1846, Charles Dickens, Pictures from Italy:
text: In every temple of every god processions were held and offerings made by those who had anything left to offer, while the statues of the gods were dressed in fine new garments and hung about with garlandings of flowers.
ref: 1918, H. Rider Haggard, Moon of Israel:
glosses: An arrangement of garlands.
attesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈtɛstɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of attest
cuffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌfɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌfɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cuff
cuffing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌfɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌfɪŋ
Forms: form: cuffings
Senses: examples: text: I was able to remember that the method seemed right and natural to me in those days, I being born to it and unaware that elsewhere there were other methods; but I was also able to remember that those unresented cuffings made me sorry for the victim and ashamed for the punisher.
ref: 1897, Mark Twain, Following the Equator […] , New York: American Publishing Company:
glosses: The act by which somebody is cuffed or struck.
glosses: The act or process of placing handcuffs on a person.
Derived terms: cuffing season
bleeping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbliːpɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bleep
bleeping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbliːpɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːpɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: Are you bleeping kidding me? That's the amount of rent we agreed!
glosses: A generic intensifier which can be substituted for any profane intensifier.
whisking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whiskings
Senses: examples: the whiskings of a horse's tail
glosses: The motion of something that is whisked.
glosses: The movement of an animal's whiskers.
whisking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whisk
tasking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of task
tasking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taskings
Senses: examples: text: Action officers receive taskings in many ways. A top boss will grab you in the hall and tell you to do something, some key official will give you multiple taskings right in the middle of your briefing, and you will pick up taskings in staff meetings […]
ref: 2007, Perry M. Smith, Daniel M. Gerstein, Assignment: Pentagon: How to Excel in a Bureaucracy:
topics: government
law-enforcement
military
politics
war
glosses: A task; an assigned item of work.
Derived terms: multitasking
single-tasking
faulting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fault
faulting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faultings
Senses: glosses: Formation of a geological fault.
girting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of girt
impugning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impugn
tranching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tranch
glosses: present participle and gerund of tranche
cornering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of corner
cornering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornerings
Senses: examples: text: We have been informed that these cornerings are rarely used when the ceilings are not decorated […]
ref: 1844, The Art Journal:
glosses: A piece of decorative work forming a corner.
examples: 1809–1812, Maria Edgeworth, "Manoeuvring", in Tales of Fashionable Life
Aside; ay, ay, but take care, I advise you, of her asides, and her whisperings, and her cornerings, and her inuendoes, and semiconfidences, lest your own happiness, my dear, unsuspecting, enthusiastic daughter, should be the sacrifice.
glosses: The act by which somebody is cornered.
propositioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of proposition
officering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of officer
succumbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of succumb
indicting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of indict
sleepwalking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleepwalkings
Senses: examples: text: The play presents a whole gamut of such causes, from irrational passions, omens, prophecies, haunted sleepwalkings, nightmares, prodigies of nature, and conjurings, to Laius's ghost in four incarnations […]
ref: 2005, Marshall Brown, The Gothic Text, page 56:
glosses: The act of walking while not conscious or aware of it, during one's sleep.
sleepwalking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sleepwalk
complimenting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more complimenting
form: most complimenting
Senses: glosses: complimentary; in the nature of a compliment.
Derived terms: complimentingly
uncomplimenting
complimenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of compliment
compacting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of compact
snickering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snicker
snickering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snickerings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who snickers.
kowtowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kowtow
kowtowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kowtowings
Senses: examples: text: Yoritomo met their smiles and kowtowings and noisy insuckings of breath with an austere dignity that I took pains to imitate.
ref: 1910, Robert Ames Bennet, The Shogun's Daughter:
glosses: The act of one who kowtows; a submissive bow.
blackening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From blacken + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blacken
blackening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackenings
Etymology: From blacken + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of turning (becoming) black in colour.
glosses: The result or an instance of such an act or process; a black stain or mark.
glosses: Any of various (dark-colored) surface treatments for metal substrates, to inhibit corrosion; on steel, generally, synonym of bluing.
examples: blackenings of my reputation
glosses: The act of defaming or sullying.
countermanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of countermand
countermanding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countermandings
Senses: examples: text: Let us bless him as we see acts of friends or foes to him and his children, proclamations and repudiations, orders and countermandings, motions of loyalty and rebellion, all providentially arranging themselves as so many onward steps […]
ref: 1852, Cyrus Augustus Bartol, The Hand of God in the Great Man, page 23:
glosses: The act of something being countermanded.
destructing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of destruct
hooraying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hooray
wagoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wagon
butchering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of butcher
butchering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butcherings
Senses: examples: (coordinate in precise usage referring to animal carcasses)
glosses: The act by which someone or something is butchered, as:
Dismemberment.
coordinate_terms: killing#Noun
slaughtering#Noun
glosses: The act by which someone or something is butchered, as:
Slaughter or killing, especially of a human being.
glosses: The act by which someone or something is butchered, as:
Botching; a botched job.
Derived terms: pig butchering
careering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From career + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of career
Derived terms: careeringly
careering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: careerings
Etymology: From career + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: My old friend had tricks, but then I knew its tricks, and I was not less displeased at its manoeuvres, than a good rider is at the well known plunges and careerings of a favorite steed.
ref: 1833, The Aurora Borealis, a literary annual:
glosses: Rapid, uncontrollable headlong motion.
buoying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buoy
keelhauling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːlhɔːlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkiːlhɔlɪŋ/
Forms: form: keelhaulings
Etymology: From keelhaul + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: ‘We was a-talkin’ of keel-hauling,’ answered Morgan. / ‘Keel-hauling, was you? And a mighty suitable thing, too, and you may lay to that. Get back to your place for a lubber, Tom.’
ref: 1883 November 14, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London: Cassell and Company, →OCLC:
text: The British, French and Dutch navies also practiced a grimmer form of choking. Sailors hung the victim from the lowest beam (the yardarm) of the main mast on one side of the ship and then, using pulleys, dragged him with ropes beneath the ship's keel to the other side of the long beam. This was called “keelhauling.” Keelhauling was not some ancient nautical torture. It originated with the modern navy. […] The British abolished keelhauling in 1720 and the French and Dutch in 1750. The practice continued unofficially for some years afterward, but there are no British records of keelhauling after 1770, and the last Dutch record was in 1806.
ref: 2007, Darius Rejali, “Choking”, in Torture and Democracy, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 282:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The act by which a person is keelhauled.
glosses: A thorough thrashing or mauling; rough treatment.
keelhauling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːlhɔːlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkiːlhɔlɪŋ/
Etymology: From keelhaul + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of keelhaul.
skippering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skipper
spooking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spook
spooking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spookings
Senses: examples: text: Until her death Marie maintained that it was she and a few other fun-loving and lively girls who had started the spookings at the expense of the superstitious sisters.
ref: 1981, Selecta: Journal of the PNCFL, page 106:
glosses: A supernatural fright.
topics: blackjack
games
glosses: The form of hole carding engaged in by a spook.
squealing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squeal
squealing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squealings
Senses: glosses: The sound of one who squeals; a squeal.
discrediting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discredit
discrediting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discreditings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is discredited.
redding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛdɪŋ
homophone: Reading
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redd
cranking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crank
cranking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crankings
Senses: examples: text: The engine temperature warning lamp should illuminate when the starter button is depressed. Do not depress Engine Start button for more than 15 seconds with two minute intervals between crankings.
ref: 1983, Operator's Manual: Truck Tractor, Line Haul, 50,000 GVWR, 6 x 4, M915:
glosses: The act by which something is cranked.
sloughing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slough
sloughing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sloughings
Senses: examples: text: As the zoogleal slime reenters the wastewater, excess solids and waste products are stripped off the media as sloughings. These sloughings are transported with the wastewater flow to a settling tank for removal.
ref: 2012, Frank Spellman, Revonna Bieber, Environmental Health and Science Desk Reference, page 831:
glosses: Something sloughed off.
examples: text: If all sloughings were successfully recorded, which is not certain since rattle segments were not color-coded during this study, the interval between events averaged 246.1 days (1.5 sloughings per snake per year).
ref: 1995, Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History: Volume 38:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The act of casting off the skin or shell; ecdysis.
smurfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)fɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smurf
smurfing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)fɪŋ
Senses: glosses: The act of one who smurfs.
topics: business
finance
synonyms: structuring
glosses: A money laundering technique involving the break-up of large sums into smaller amounts, in order to fly under the regulatory radar.
Related terms: salami slicing
molesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of molest
cramping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹæmpɪŋ/
rhymes: -æmpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cramp
cramping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹæmpɪŋ/
rhymes: -æmpɪŋ
Forms: form: crampings
Senses: examples: text: There are also twitchings or crampings of the muscles to a greater or less extent — which, if not relieved, soon become general and exceedingly violent and painful.
ref: 1867, Eclectic Medical Society of the State of New York, Transactions:
glosses: The action of something that cramps.
Derived terms: canine epileptoid cramping syndrome
mongering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of monger
mongering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mongerings
Etymology: From monger + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: fishmongering
glosses: Trading or peddling (typically, of a specified commodity).
examples: text: fearmongering, warmongering
glosses: The spreading or promotion of a specified thing.
Derived terms: disease mongering
peacemongering
Related terms: monger and -ing form of its derived terms
heralding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of herald
heralding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heraldings
Senses: examples: text: There are many poetical charms in the heraldings of Christmas.
ref: 1860, Fraser's Magazine, volume 62, page 350:
glosses: The act by which something is heralded.
exhorting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exhort
exhorting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exhortings
Senses: examples: text: […] their censorious outcries against the standing ministers and Churches in general, their Lay ordinations, their Lay preachings, and public exhortings, and administering Sacraments […]
ref: a. 1758, Jonathan Edwards, An Humble Inquiry into the Rules of the Word of God:
glosses: exhortation
slobbering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slobber
slobbering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slobberings
Senses: examples: the slobberings of a hungry dog
glosses: The act of one who slobbers.
pavilioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pavilion
coiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔɪlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coil
coiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: coilings
Senses: examples: text: Holding out her small olive hand before her captain, she said in mild and slowest Spanish, "Senor, I buried him;" then paused, struggled as against the writhed coilings of a snake, and cringing suddenly, leaped up, repeating in impassioned pain, "I buried him, my life, my soul!"
ref: 1854, Herman Melville, The Encantadas:
glosses: The pattern or motion of something that coils.
glosses: The process of fitting a ship with electromagnetic coils, so that it can be degaussed while travelling.
Derived terms: coilingly
decoiling
homocoiling
hypercoiling
supercoiling
brawling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brawl
brawling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brawling
form: most brawling
Senses: glosses: prone to brawls; unruly; pugnacious
Derived terms: brawlingly
brawling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brawlings
Senses: examples: text: Suffer not Satan to endarken your consciences; let brawlings cease, and let unity be seen.
ref: 1711, John Strype, Life and Acts of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury:
glosses: An unruly fight; a brawl.
yodeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yodel
yodeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yodelings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who yodels.
respraying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of respray
respraying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resprayings
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent spraying.
wakening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of waken