cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
calendaring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] the standard email and calendaring functions of Outlook […]
ref: 2004, Rand Morimoto, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Unleashed, page 741:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The use of a computerized calendar to schedule events or appointments.
absisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of absist
quartering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: By surface analysis, quarter + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quarter
quartering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarterings
Etymology: By surface analysis, quarter + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Similitude applies to proportional changes, such as doublings, halvings, or quarterings; it does not apply to additive changes.
ref: 1994, David C. Schneider, Quantitative Ecology: Spatial and Temporal Scaling, page 36:
glosses: A division into four parts.
glosses: The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.
glosses: The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
topics: architecture
glosses: A series of quarters, or small upright posts.
glosses: The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes).
topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: Searching for prey by traversing a space. From hunting for game, where dogs will run parallel to the wind in search of a scent, thereby 'quartering' the field.
examples: text: The arch failed first at the crown, then at the quarterings, and finally at the springings.
ref: 1941 February, “Bridge demolition by lifting”, in Railway Magazine, page 74:
glosses: A point on an arch calculated by measuring one quarter of the height along a line from the peak to the outer edge on the ground.
Derived terms: quartering block
quartering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: By surface analysis, quarter + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Wave direction and frequency (period) are two factors that influence the effect of waves on a moored ship. Whether the ship responds by surging, swaying or yawing will depend on whether the waves are striking the moored vessel head-on, beam-on or quartering, the frequency of the waves and the manner in which the tanker is moored.
ref: 2015 November, Duncan Bruce, Tanker Jetty Safety – Management of the Ship/Shore Interface, 1st edition, Witherby Seamanship International, →ISBN, 3.1.2:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Coming from aft and to one side; having both a crosswind and tailwind component.
raw_tags: of wind
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
Derived terms: quartering sea
decrypting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decrypt
seconding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of second
seconding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secondings
Senses: examples: text: The nominations and the secondings of candidates for the 1973 election of the various officers and directors of The American Philatelic Society were concluded May 31, 1973, and the final listing appears below.
ref: 1973, The American Philatelist, volume 87, numbers 7-12, page 629:
glosses: The agreement of a second person to an initial proposal or motion.
examples: text: Having successfully completed their two secondings, the students were qualified to take out a case on their own.
ref: 1993, The New Law Journal (volume 143, part 2, page 1580)
glosses: Temporary transfer from normal duty to another assignment.
clocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clock
clocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clockings
Senses: examples: text: At all of the major “breakup” yards where the railroads unloaded and loaded freight — waterfront railyards, pier stations, and inland freight depots — teams conducted clockings, recording all movements of trains […]
ref: 2012, Kurt C. Schlichting, Grand Central's Engineer:
text: He picked up the sheet of paper which showed the clockings of the two employees. He looked again at the clockings that Earrell had made and smiled to himself; on the fifth of the month, he had skipped his break completely […]
ref: 2012, R. Flodna Knob, The Monster Between My Legs:
glosses: A time measurement made according to a clock.
Derived terms: self-clocking
dicking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dick
dicking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪkɪŋ
Forms: form: dickings
Senses: examples: text: Escorts, strippers, and all kinds of townie whores flocked to the skull logo, just begging for a good dicking. And who better to give it to them than yours truly?
ref: 2017, Zoey Parker, A Sinful Vow:
glosses: An act of being sexually penetrated.
Derived terms: double-dicking
farting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑːtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɑɹtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tɪŋ
Etymology: From fart + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fart
farting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑːtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɑɹtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tɪŋ
Forms: form: fartings
Etymology: From Middle English fartynge, fartyng, ferting, from Old English feorting (“farting”), equivalent to fart + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Noise grew everywhere — radios, monstrous tape decks, the fartings of untuned engines.
ref: 1989, William H. MacLeish, The Gulf Stream:
text: Observing the pantings and fartings of our old Boston terrier Tunney one day, he proposed that the federal government should fund a plan like the Passamaquoddy Bay project that would put all this energy to some use.
ref: 2007, Roger Angell, Let Me Finish, page 44:
glosses: The act of one who farts; a sound like a fart.
porting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of port
porting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portings
Senses: examples: text: […] portings distributed radially about the housing bore. It then is necessary only to arrange six equally spaced portings at the outside diameter of the control sleeve which rotates within the housing, and to size these portings […]
ref: 1961, SAE Technical Paper Series (issues 391-420)
text: […] portings in said tracer valve to said cylinder inlet port in said servo valve unit for actuating said servo valve member from said set position to control fluid flow through said inlet and outlet portings in said servo valve unit […]
ref: 1962, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 1224:
glosses: An opening through or into which fluid or other material can flow.
jittering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jitter
jittering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jitterings
Senses: examples: text: The Trout (Die Forelle) was horribly knackering to perform with its continuous high energy and light convulsive jitterings, which covered the entire stage space.
ref: 2006, Liz Aggiss, Billy Cowie, Anarchic Dance:
glosses: The act or motion of one who jitters.
secreting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sēʹkrətĭng
ipa: /ˈsiːkɹətɪŋ/
Forms: form: secretting
Etymology: From secret.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of secret
secreting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sēʹkrətĭng
ipa: /ˈsiːkɹətɪŋ/
enpr: sĭkrēʹtĭng
ipa: /sɪˈkɹiːtɪŋ/
enpr: sēʹkrətĭng
ipa: /ˈsiːkɹətɪŋ/
Etymology: From secrete.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of secrete
husbanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of husband
walling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wall
walling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wallings
Senses: examples: text: Nor was this all; seeing something projecting through the soil at the bottom of the bared patch of walling, I removed the loose earth with my hands, and revealed a huge stone ring, a foot or more in diameter, and about three inches thick.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: “All three,” says Dr. Schliemann, “were unusually large, and appeared to have been forced into the small space of only 5 feet 6 inches, left for them between the inner wallings […]
ref: 2014, Carl Schuchhardt, Schliemann's Excavations, page 252:
text: The longer the platform, the more signs, fencing, walling, lighting, drainage and public address systems (and so on) are needed.
ref: 2025 July 9, Mel Holley, “How much should a station cost?”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 28:
glosses: A group of walls.
glosses: Material used for walls.
glosses: A method of torture in which a person's neck is encircled by a collar, which is then used to slam the person against a wall.
Related terms: four-walling
walling wax
radioing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of radio
thouing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thou
burping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of burp
burping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burpings
Senses: glosses: The sound of a burp.
examples: text: Once you finally deliver your baby, the next few days are a complete blur of feedings, burpings, and awesomesauce nurses being on hand to help you with everything.
ref: 2012, Janet Frongillo, Mommy Mixology: A Cocktail for Every Calamity:
glosses: The act by which a baby, or a container of fermenting substance, is burped.
storming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)mɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of storm
storming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)mɪŋ
Forms: form: stormings
Senses: examples: the stormings of cities throughout history
glosses: The act by which something is stormed.
examples: text: He fumed, and threatened, and stormed; but his fumings, and threatenings, and stormings, were powerless to turn from him the keen edge of public ridicule.
ref: 1840, The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register:
glosses: The act of one who storms or rages.
bunking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bunk
greening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹiːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of green
greening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹiːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːnɪŋ
Forms: form: greenings
Senses: examples: text: the tender greening of April meadows
ref: 1816, John Keats, Sleep and Poetry:
glosses: The process of becoming green.
glosses: A type of pear.
glosses: A type of apple that is green when ripe.
Synonyms: sense: pear
word: greening-pear
Derived terms: citrus greening
greening pit
greening weed
greening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹiːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: Becoming green in colour.
pinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pink
pinking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinkings
Senses: examples: text: These rufflings, and pinkings, and patchings, will only make us hated by all the wives of our neighbours.
ref: 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield:
glosses: Decoration by adding holes or scalloping.
Derived terms: pinking iron
pinking shears
wronging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wrong
wronging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrongings
Senses: glosses: An act by which somebody is wronged.
kinging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of king
jacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒækɪŋ/
rhymes: -ækɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jack
jacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒækɪŋ/
rhymes: -ækɪŋ
Forms: form: jackings
Senses: examples: text: The most common type of robberies by gang members is jackings, street robberies against persons. According to some gang members interviewed, jackings are not planned, but are rather crimes of opportunity.
ref: 1994, William B. Sanders, Gangbangs and Drive-Bys:
glosses: A street robbery.
Related terms: car jacking
car-jacking
cryptojacking
jacking gear
juice jacking
pipejacking
humoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of humor
knighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of knight
knighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: knightings
Senses: examples: text: What distinguished the knighting ceremony from the established giving of arms was the semi-ritualistic character of the later event. It was much more than a coming of age. The most impressive knightings could be occasions of some grandeur.
ref: 2011, Nigel Saul, Chivalry in Medieval England, page 19:
text: Only 14 percent of Australians agreed with the knighting, and many of Mr. Abbott’s colleagues were dismayed.
ref: 2015 February 6, Julia Baird, “Will a Passion for Royalty Ruin a Prime Minister’s Career?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The act of making somebody a knight.
cocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From cock (“a male bird, esp. a rooster; many derivatives, incl. penis”) + -ing (forming participles).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cock
cocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockings
Etymology: From cock (“a male bird, esp. a rooster; many derivatives, incl. penis”) + -ing (forming participles).
Senses: glosses: The hunting of gamecocks.
examples: text: Thus circumstanced, he became the avowed companion of sharpers and gamblers, attended cockings and races […]
ref: 1792, The European Magazine, and London Review, volume 21, page 313:
glosses: Cockfighting.
Derived terms: cocking of a snook
Related terms: cocker
cocker spaniel
cocking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cock (“a male bird, esp. a rooster; many derivatives, incl. penis”) + -ing (forming participles).
Senses: examples: text: "Son of a cocking bastard."
ref: 2000, Neil Kurtzman, Doing Nothing, page 180:
glosses: offensive or worthless
coining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔɪnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coin
coining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔɪnɪŋ
Forms: form: coinings
Senses: synonyms: kerokan
gua sha
glosses: A form of alternative medicine from Southeast Asia where a coin is rubbed vigorously on a patient's oiled skin.
examples: text: Poetry admits of greater latitude than proſe, which with reſpect to coining, or, at leaſt, new-compounding words; yet, even here, this liberty ſhould be uſed with a ſparing hand.
ref: 1783, Hugh Blair, edited by George Edward Griffiths, The Monthly Review, volume 68, Art. V. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres., page 499:
text: Once we move into the Patristic period, there is undoubted evidence for new coinings of words (particularly compounds) as a response to the needs of the theological debates which occurred.
ref: 1989, G.H.R. Horsley, “The Greek Documentary Evidence and NT Lexical Study: Some Soundings”, in New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity, volume 5, →ISBN, page 77:
text: Coinings or neologisms are words that have recently been created. […] True coinings, which are completely new words, are rather rare relative to the vast number of words we create by means of the other word formation processes.
ref: 2009, Kristin Denham, Anne Lobeck, “Morphological Typology and Word Formation”, in Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction, →ISBN, page 194:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: coinage
neologism
glosses: A created word or phrase.
minding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mindings
Etymology: From Middle English mynding, myndyng, equivalent to mind + -ing.
Senses: examples: a. 1691, Richard Baxter, a sermon
[…] those holy breathings after God, and that sense of the evil of sin, and that conscience of duty, and those groans excited by the spirit of prayer, and those mindings of the things of another world […]
glosses: The act of taking heed of something.
minding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more minding
form: most minding
Etymology: From mind + -ing.
Derived terms: unminding
minding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From mind + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mind
neutering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuterings
Senses: examples: text: The vet performed neuterings on four cats.
glosses: The act by which something is neutered.
neutering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of neuter
righting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of right
righting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rightings
Senses: examples: text: the rightings of social wrongs
glosses: The act of putting something right.
examples: text: the righting of an overturned car
glosses: The return of a vehicle to an upright orientation from a tilted or inverted orientation.
Derived terms: righting arm
mothering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motherings
Etymology: By surface analysis, mother + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The unification or bringing together of disparate things […] which Mrs Ramsay seeks to achieve by marryings and motherings […]
ref: 1996, Rachel Bowlby, Feminist Destinations and Further Essays on Virginia Woolf:
glosses: The nurturing of a child by its mother.
glosses: The protective behavior of a mother towards her child.
examples: text: The institution in the past has done monumental work harboring the homeless, mothering the homeless, mothering the motherless, caring for the poor and dependent
ref: 1912, “The Mother's Pension Law”, in The Journal of the International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, volume 24, page 1025:
text: He began pounding her with endless questions: “Are you happy? Why don’t you speak? Am I boring you?” She glowed into love, smiled, kissed him, fondled him like a mother. The male resents this mothering in his depth. It shields the home. The conquered woman turns back as a mother to draw him in, more and more into herself, to her warm quiescent hearth, to the unborn.
ref: 1930 (date written), Dane Rudhyar, Rania: An Epic Narrative, San Francisco, Calif.: Unity Press, published spring 1973, →ISBN, page 71:
text: "If we must choose between teaching and mothering," says one teacher, "we take care of mothering first."
ref: 1970 July 31, Leonard McCombe, “Big business tangles with day care problems”, in LIFE magazine, page 45:
glosses: Nurturing or protective behavior reminiscent of that performed by a literal mother.
examples: text: Mothering-.—In former days, when the Roman Catholic was the established religion, it was the custom for people to visit their Mother Church on MidLent Sunday, and to make their offerings at the high altar. ...the now remaining practice of Mothering, or going to visit parents upon Mid-Lent Sunday, is really owing to that good old custom.
ref: 1905, John Brand, William Carew Hazlitt, “National Faiths”, in Faiths and folklore: a dictionary of national beliefs, Vol 2, page 424:
text: "Mothering Sunday," the fourth Sunday in Lent, when absent sons and daughters — particularly the young apprentices — would return to their homes with some little present for both parents, but more especially for the mother. ...Imagine the ... pride of the mother in the simple gift, and the admiration of the small brothers and sisters who gathered around and longed for the time when they also would be out in the great unknown world and could come "a-mothering."
ref: 1894 March 24, Mary B. Merrill, “Mothering Sunday”, in Mary Mapes Dodge, editor, St. Nicholas: a monthly magazine for boys and girls, volume 21, part 1, page 388:
glosses: Clipping of a-mothering (“practice of visiting one's literal or figurative mother or mother church”).
Derived terms: mismothering
motheringly
Mothering Sunday
mothering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: By surface analysis, mother + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mother
Derived terms: mothering-cake
brothering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brother
winging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪŋɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wing
winging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪŋɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɪŋ
Senses: glosses: Synonym of wing foiling.
synonyms: word: wing foiling
winging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪŋɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɪŋ
ipa: /ˈwɪnd͡ʒɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈwɪŋɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of winge
wooding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wood
crewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crew
gossiping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑs.ɪ.pɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡɒs.ɪ.pɪŋ/
Forms: form: gossipping
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gossip
Derived terms: gossipingly
ungossiping
gossiping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑs.ɪ.pɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡɒs.ɪ.pɪŋ/
Forms: form: gossipings
form: gossipping
Senses: glosses: The act of passing gossip; communication about other people's private business.
examples: text: At Wendlebury and other places they bring their Cakes at a Gossiping, and give a large cake to the father of the child, wᶜʰ they call a Rocking Cake.
ref: 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 65:
glosses: A christening.
martyring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of martyr
marooning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of maroon
marooning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maroonings
Senses: glosses: An act of abandoning a person in a remote, deserted place.
Derived terms: marooning party
alloying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of alloy
chaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chain
chaining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪnɪŋ
Forms: form: chainings
Senses: glosses: The act or process by which something is chained.
Derived terms: sidechaining
ministering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of minister
ministering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Hitherto all that I had acquired had been unsatisfactory—the reward was too distant; but Carrara's mystic eloquence brought the result of our midnight vigils visibly before me; and when I left him, it was to dream of the glorious secrets which, once penetrated, would lay all nature open to our eyes, and leave all its ministering spirits bowed to our rule by spell and sign.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 126:
glosses: Of one who, or something that, administers.
Derived terms: ministering angel
ministering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ministerings
Senses: examples: text: I could not be in your daughter's company, and have the grace of her gentle ministerings.
ref: 1896, Andrew Lang, A Monk of Fife:
glosses: The act of one who ministers; ministration.
beplastering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beplaster
snowplowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snowplow
friending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friendings
Senses: examples: text: And what so poor a man as Hamlet is
May do t'express his love and friending to you.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], lines 182-183:
glosses: A sentiment of friendship
examples: text: Refreshments followed, coupled with teary farewells and exchanges of phone numbers and emails, and Facebook friendings.
ref: 2015, John Ellsworth, Unspeakable Prayers:
glosses: An act of adding a person as a friend on a social network.
friending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of friend
handfasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of handfast
handfasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handfastings
Senses: glosses: The ceremony in which people handfast.
soiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of soil
soiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soilings
Senses: examples: text: An important task for any detergent is to remove visible soilings.
ref: 2007, Kirk-Othmer Chemical Technology and the Environment: Volume 1, page 151:
glosses: An act of making dirty.
upbreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upbreak
upbreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upbreakings
Senses: examples: a. 1840, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Godolphin
the fitful and dusky upbreakings of the flame through the […] grate
glosses: The action of something that escapes or flies upward.
mouthing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mouth
glosses: present participle and gerund of mouthe
mouthing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouthings
Senses: examples: text: Mouthings tend to occur most often when signers are manually articulating nouns, open-class items, and morphologically simpler signs (see Crasborn et al. 2008).
ref: 2013, Robert Bayley, Richard Cameron, Ceil Lucas, The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics, page 382:
glosses: The act of forming a shape with the mouth, especially as part of sign language.
examples: text: Kearn did not rant, he did not deafen you with heroics and empty mouthings.
ref: 1941, Players Magazine:
glosses: Ranting; passionate speech devoid of meaning.
elbowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of elbow
elbowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elbowings
Senses: examples: text: To Johnson Life was as a Prison, to be endured with heroic faith: to Hume it was little more than a foolish Bartholomew-Fair Show-booth, with the foolish crowdings and elbowings of which it was not worth while to quarrel[…]
ref: 1832, Thomas Carlyle, “Boswell's Life of Johnson”, in Fraser's Magazine:
text: But in the elbowings of the noisy throng
There is no calm for holiness like thine.
ref: 1849, Thomas Burbidge, Mnemeion:
glosses: A nudge or jostle with the elbow.
perfecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of perfect
perfecting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfectings
Senses: examples: text: All the same, the final embellishments and perfectings of detail occupied a further four years.
ref: 2002, R. A. Stradling, Philip IV and the Government of Spain, 1621-1665, page 342:
glosses: The bringing of something to a state of perfection.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The process of printing on both sides of the printed-on material during its single pass through the printing press.
Derived terms: perfecting press
dimensioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dimension
paining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pain
Derived terms: unpaining
pining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪnɪŋ
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: present participle and gerund of pine
pining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪnɪŋ
Forms: form: pinings
Senses: examples: text: the sullen pinings of discontent
ref: 1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest:
glosses: The act of one who pines.
hoisting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔɪstɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔɪstɪŋ
Forms: form: hoistings
Senses: examples: text: Hoisting, derricking, slewing, and travelling are by means of independent 600-volt motors through reduction gearing.
ref: 1956 May, “London Transport Diesel-Electric Cranes”, in Railway Magazine, page 337:
text: The Madras government allowed flag hoistings in particular circumstances[…]
ref: 2007, Lisa N. Trivedi, Clothing Gandhi's Nation: Homespun and Modern India:
glosses: The act by which something is hoisted.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The behaviour of JavaScript syntax which allows variables to be used before they are declared.
Related terms: block
scope
temporal dead zone
hoisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔɪstɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔɪstɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hoist
copyrighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of copyright
busting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌstɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌstɪŋ
Forms: form: more busting
form: most busting
Senses: examples: text: Can you tell me where the toilets are? I'm busting.
text: The kid is busting to go to the toilet.
glosses: Urgently needing to urinate. Alternative form of bursting.
raw_tags: followed by "to go to..."
Synonyms: bursting
Derived terms: cache busting
busting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌstɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌstɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bust
busting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌstɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌstɪŋ
Forms: form: bustings
Senses: examples: text: O, sir! the explosions, the blowings-up, the bustings, the firings! There was bombshells flying about as big as houses.
ref: 1874, “A Royal Salute”, in Belgravia, volume 23, page 180:
text: Don't you see, laddie, you're much too valuable to squander your energies playing the lousy short con, suffering the cop roustings and head bustings, the chump change scores.
ref: 2012, Iceberg Slim, Long White Con: The Biggest Score of His Life, page 12:
glosses: The process of something being broken or exploded.
Derived terms: ballbusting
blockbusting
chartbusting
cloudbusting
crimebusting
dambusting
doorbusting
gangbusting
ghostbusting
mutton busting
quackbusting
racketbusting
sodbusting
stressbusting
swampbusting
tankbusting
trend-busting
trustbusting
unionbusting
skirting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skirt
skirting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skirtings
Senses: examples: text: Challenger looked up at the cornice and round at the skirting.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: The stateroom walls are veneered with finely figured English chestnut with the skirting and mouldings in English walnut.
ref: 1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 36:
glosses: Skirting boards collectively.
glosses: skirts collectively; material for skirts
examples: text: […] superficial: many of their descriptions, together with their own candid and often amusing comments and reactions, are well worth noting and reflecting upon; their skirtings around the laws of defamation are a joy to read and a lesson to us all; […]
ref: 1982, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research:
glosses: The act of one who skirts around something, or avoids it.
booting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of boot
booting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bootings
Senses: glosses: A kicking, as with a booted foot.
examples: text: […] you can save yourself a little bit of time on subsequent bootings by altering a setting in the motherboard BIOS.
ref: 1999, Peter Norton, John M. Goodman, Peter Norton's Inside the PC, page 101:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The act by which a computer is booted.
examples: text: Thou, Linus, that louest still to be promoting,
Because I sport, about King Henries marriage:
Think' st this will proue a matter worth the carriage.
But let it alone, Lynus, it is no booting.
ref: 1618, John Harrington, The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington […] :
glosses: Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.
examples: text: C4 run man through the alley
Get a man down with the swammy
Get a man down with the whammy
Boot couple niggas on the road
No face no case with the bally (booting)
ref: 2015 November 1, “Dem Man Know”, C4 (814) (lyrics):
text: Just got bail, three shootings
I ain’t gotta call up Pacman
To go up to country to do some bootings (bu-bu)
Tryna aim for your head
Pronounce man dead, pull up and suit him
ref: 2019 May 16, “P4DP”, in Digga D (lyrics), Double Tap Diaries EP:
coordinate_terms: chinging
glosses: Homicide by gunfire.
Derived terms: multibooting
nonbooting
weighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of weight
weighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: weightings
Senses: examples: text: Higher weightings were assigned to data from double-blind studies.
glosses: The weight or significance given to something, sometimes by means of a statistical multiplier.
Derived terms: London weighting
breading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bread
breading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛdɪŋ
Forms: form: breadings
Senses: glosses: The coating of a thin slice of meat in flour, egg and breadcrumbs prior to frying
chalking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chalkings
Senses: examples: text: Dinner patrons at RPU see dozens of chalkings on the sidewalk each week. Student groups know that this is a prime locale to promote student groups and shows.
ref: 2002, The Cornellian, volume 134, page 69:
glosses: Something chalked on a surface.
qualifier: painting
glosses: The appearance of non-gloss paint on an exterior surface due to chemical deterioration and removal by weather.
chalking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chalk
filibustering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of filibuster
filibustering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filibusterings
Senses: examples: text: No other interpretation could be put upon two of his most notorious filibusterings: […]
ref: 1945, Khalid Latif Gauba, Verdict on England, page 144:
glosses: The act of one who filibusters.
disdaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disdain
disdaining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disdainings
Senses: examples: text: She disdained everybody; and because of her disdainings it was believed that the master of her beauty was the Lord of Darkness; and that seemed reasonable.
ref: 2019, Thomas A. Janvier, Legends of the City of Mexico:
glosses: Disdain.
impacting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impact
braining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brain
benefiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: benefitting
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of benefit
balling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: By surface analysis, ball + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ball
balling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: By surface analysis, ball + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Ideal for a balling hot time .
ref: 1980, Patricia J. Bush, Drugs, Alcohol, & Sex:
text: And as Doran said later, all bullshit aside, what balling broad could resist going to bed with a handsome dwarf ?
ref: 2012, Mario Puzo, Fools Die, page 227:
text: Having prayed "for a tallish, not too much belly, brown-skinned, slow-smiling man with big hands and clean, neat fingernails […] who wouldn't argue about wearing a johnny," Kassima not only found her a "nice man" but she and Jones also had “a balling good time and started seeing each other regular” […]
ref: 2012, Bernard W. Bell, Bearing Witness to African American Literature, page 150:
glosses: Involving casual sexual intercourse.
glosses: Alternative form of ballin'.
blanketing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: By surface analysis, blanket + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blanket
falconing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of falcon
falconing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: falconry
rumoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rumor
rumouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rumour
powering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of power
proportioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of proportion
pawning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pawnings
Etymology: From pawn + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Her road had again seemed to stretch out endless, she imagined that there might be hundreds and hundreds of such things that Edward was concealing from her – that they might necessitate more mortgagings, more pawnings of bracelets, more and always more horrors.
ref: 1915, Ford Madox Hueffer [i.e., Ford Madox Ford], chapter V, in The Good Soldier […], Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1972 (1982 printing), →ISBN, part I, page 63:
glosses: The act by which something is pawned.
pawning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From pawn + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pawn
dangering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of danger
shorting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of short
shorting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: short selling
dulling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dull
roughing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rough
stomaching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stomaching
form: most stomaching
Senses: glosses: nauseating; sickening
stomaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stomach
stomaching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stomachings
Senses: examples: 1582, Bible (Pocket Rheims), Corinthians
Contentions, emulations, stomachings, dissensions, detractions […]
glosses: resentment
sanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From sand + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sand
sanding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandings
Etymology: From Middle English sanding, sandyng, equivalent to sand + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act or process by which something is sanded; the application of sandpaper, etc.
glosses: A type of dancing where the floor is covered in sand. See Sanding (dance).
glosses: The process of testing the surface of gilding, after it has been fired, with fine sand and water.
glosses: The process of burying oysters in sand.
examples: text: Sanding is by steam, and is fitted to the front of the leading coupled wheels, and to front and rear of the driving wheels.
ref: 1951 June, “British Railways Standard Class "5" 4-6-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 400:
text: Next day further heavy sanding of the lines was carried out by standard Class "3" 2-6-2 tank No. 82028 from the Scarborough end and Class "4" 2-6-4 tank No. 42084 from Whitby.
ref: 1959 April, “Motive Power Miscellany: North Eastern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 224–225:
glosses: The process of applying sand to rails in railway track to aid adhesion.
examples: text: sugar sanding
text: sour sanding
glosses: A coating of sugar crystals on confectionery, especially on jellies.
Derived terms: sanding gear
sanding machine
sanding paper
sanding sheet
sanding sugar
wet sanding
wet-sanding
vacuuming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vacuum
vacuuming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vacuumings
Senses: glosses: An instance of vacuuming.
examples: text: Put the vacuumings in the bin.
glosses: Material sucked up by a vacuum cleaner.
glosses: Synonym of vacuum exercise.
synonyms: word: vacuum exercise
mattering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of matter
mattering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matterings
Senses: examples: text: But not all matterings matter the same: you value your daily respite at the coffee shop that's long brightened your mornings, but if that shop goes under, you wouldn't—I hope—be facing existential threat.
ref: 2015, John M. Doris, Talking to Our Selves: Reflection, Ignorance, and Agency:
text: Mattering is "a core, universal human need," a necessary component for well-being, Dr. [Gordon] Flett said. But it's tricky to define, he added, because people sometimes confuse it with belonging, self-esteem and social connection.
ref: 2023, Gail Cornwall, “Want to Believe in Yourself? 'Mattering' Is Key”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The quality of something that matters; significance; importance.
snowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnəʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsnoʊɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
Etymology: From snow (verb).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snow
snowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnəʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsnoʊɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
Forms: form: snowings
Etymology: From snow (verb).
Senses: examples: text: And sometimes hours of peace, I own, / Upon some fairer leaves have shown, / White as the snowings of that heaven / By which those hours of peace were given.
ref: a. 1852, Thomas Moore, Written in a Common-Place Book:
glosses: A fall of snow.
augmenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of augment
keying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of key
keying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keyings
Senses: glosses: In the sociology of Erving Goffman, an action or utterance that signals the meaning of interaction to participants.
glosses: The input of text or data by means of a keyboard.
glosses: A form of vandalism performed by scratching paint with a key
Derived terms: downkeying
frequency shift keying
frequency-shift keying
phase shift keying
phase-shift keying
upkeying
Related terms: miskeying
bearding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beard
bearding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: An undesirable video artifact whereby darker parts of a signal bleed across horizontally into the brighter parts.
seaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːmɪŋ/
homophone: seeming
homophone: seming
rhymes: -iːmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of seam
seaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːmɪŋ/
homophone: seeming
homophone: seming
rhymes: -iːmɪŋ
Forms: form: seamings
Senses: glosses: The act or process of forming a seam or joint.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: The cord or rope at the margin of a seine, to which the meshes of the net are attached.
Derived terms: seaming machine
contenting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contenting
form: most contenting
Senses: examples: text: To preserve the rights of justice, and to give a contenting answer to the cry of mercy, to wipe off, as I may say, the tears of one, and smooth the frowns of the other, God lays our iniquity upon Christ, Isa . 53. 6.
ref: 1815, Stephen Charnock, Edward Parsons, The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock, page 223:
text: you can daily retire into yourself, and there peruse a richer treasure than bodily eyes on earth can see; and there be taken up with a far more contenting satisfactory employment , and a more fruitful and pleasant converse and recreation, than any you, creature in court or country can afford;
ref: 1830, Richard Baxter, William Orme, The Practical Works of Richard Baxter, page vi:
text: It was very contenting and relaxing to the senses .
ref: 2000, James R. Zeffield, The Competitors, page 23:
text: Yet it comes over me that to sit on the grass at the Horse Show tomorrow with L. will be very contenting.
ref: 1923, Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf:
glosses: Producing contentment; pleasing or satisfying.
Derived terms: uncontenting
contenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of content
depositing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depositings
Senses: examples: text: And by the same token it was plain that there had also been a hundred and seventy-five floodings of the earth and depositings of limestone strata!
ref: 1875, Mark Twain, Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls:
glosses: A deposition.
depositing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deposit