cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
banding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbændɪŋ/
rhymes: -ændɪŋ
Forms: form: bandings
Etymology: From band + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: You can recognize this species of bird by the banding on the wing.
glosses: A pattern of band-like markings.
synonyms: ringing
glosses: A technique used in the study of wild birds, by attaching a small, individually numbered, metal or plastic tag to their legs or wings.
examples: text: property tax banding
text: The bees’ cubital index, a method for differentiating breeds of honeybees, also confirmed they are “more of an indigenous bee” than anything else, he said, but their adaptations have made them unique and peculiar, and they have very little banding. “Supposedly, wild tree-nesting honeybees which can sustain themselves do not exist, so nobody knows what type of wild, self-sustaining honeybee is actually left in the UK.”
ref: 2021 July 11, Donna Ferguson, “‘No one knew they existed’: wild heirs of lost British honeybee found at Blenheim”, in The Guardian Online:
glosses: A division into bands or brackets.
examples: text: Was he aiding the man-redeeming movements of the day, the beautiful associations, the useful bandings together for human improvement, love and truth? No.
ref: 1848, The Odd-fellows' Offering, page 60:
glosses: The formation of a band or brigade.
Derived terms: color banding
edgebanding
edge banding
banding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbændɪŋ/
rhymes: -ændɪŋ
Etymology: From band + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of band
banding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbændɪŋ/
rhymes: -ændɪŋ
Forms: form: bandings
Etymology: From band + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bandying.
upcoiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upcoil
upcurling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upcurl
suiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of suit
Derived terms: suitingly
suiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suitings
Senses: examples: text: In addition to men's suitings and ladies' costumings the firm also produces man-made fabrics for filtration and protective clothing.
ref: 1973, Charles Hadfield, Alice Mary Hadfield, The Cotswolds: A New Study, page 203:
glosses: fabric for making suits
burdening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of burden
breakfasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of breakfast
breakfasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breakfastings
Senses: examples: text: At home there were other studies and much reading; many tea drinkings on the lawn, and even breakfastings, which she thought pleasanter still.
ref: 1853, Susan Bogert Warner, The wide, wide world, page 372:
glosses: The act of eating breakfast.
Related terms: bed-and-breakfasting
tufting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tuft
tufting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuftings
Senses: examples: text: We checked out a large selection of Native handicrafts, including mukluks made of seal or reindeer skin and lined with fur, medicine spirit stones, and moose hair tuftings.
ref: 2012, Herb Williams, North to Alaska with a No-Account Cat:
glosses: A tuft.
glosses: A type of stitching passing through a quilt or mattress to hold the filling in place. See tuft for images.
quieting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quiet
quieting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quietings
Senses: glosses: The act of making something quiet.
upending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upend
upending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upendings
Senses: glosses: An act of overthrowing or turning over.
handseling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of handsel
breasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of breast
breasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breastings
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The curved channel in which a breastwheel turns.
queering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of queer
queering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queerings
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: The process by which something is queered.
damping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of damp
damping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dampings
Senses: glosses: A dampening; a making wet.
topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The reduction in the magnitude of oscillations by the dissipation of energy
topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The stabilization of a physical system by reducing oscillation
Derived terms: antidamping
damping ratio
dampening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dampen
dampening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dampenings
Senses: examples: text: After several dampenings and even though it was only on my face for an hour, I was surprised at how heavy the mud pack had become.
ref: 2005, Don Collett, The Well, page 63:
glosses: The act of making or becoming damp.
flocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flock
flocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flockings
Senses: glosses: The process of adding small particles to a surface for the sake of texture.
glosses: A material textured in this way, such as the artificial snow of a Christmas tree.
hyperlinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hyperlink
vivisecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vivisect
reining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪnɪŋ
homophone: raining
homophone: reigning
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rein
nulling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of null
nulling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌlɪŋ
Forms: form: nullings
Senses: examples: text: The legs are of the heavy bulbous type common at this time, turned in the cup and cover form, and carved with nullings and acanthus leafwork.
ref: 2013, Charles H. Hayward, English Furniture at a Glance:
glosses: nulled work
voiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of void
voiding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voidings
Senses: examples: text: the annulling or voiding of marriages, made unlawfully
ref: 1649, Joseph Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Divers Practicall cases of Conscience:
glosses: An act by which something is voided, such as urination.
examples: text: Oh! bestow
Some poor Remain, the voiding of thy Table,
A Morsel to support my famish'd soul
ref: 1714, Nicholas Rowe, The Tragedy of Jane Shore:
glosses: That which is voided; that which is ejected or evacuated; a remnant; a fragment.
Derived terms: voiding cystourethrography
voiding knife
tanking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tank
tanking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tankings
Senses: examples: text: The patient was treated with methylprednisolone, cyclophosphamide, and azathioprine, as well as burn center protocol care with daily tankings.
ref: 1993, Virginia Medical Quarterly, volumes 120-121, page 44:
glosses: A session of being immersed in a tank.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An act of a deliberate loss in a game or match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
mothing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of moth
betaing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beta
graphing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of graph
rooking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rook
rooking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rookings
Senses: examples: text: Wide-eyed, staring up into the darkness, he pondered the problem of giving Babe a well-deserved rooking.
ref: 1957 May, Jim Thompson, Alfred Hitchcock's Suspense Magazine, page 14, column 1:
glosses: An act or instance of cheating or swindling.
disemploying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disemploy
milking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English mylkand, from Old English meolcġende, present participle of Old English meolcian, milcian (“to milk”), equivalent to milk + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of milk
milking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milkings
Etymology: From Middle English milkinge, mylkynge, equivalent to milk + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: We try to finish milking early in the morning so we can turn the cows out to pasture during the day.
text: The snake milker massages the glands to extract the full measure of venom during each milking.
glosses: The act by which any animal is milked.
glosses: Male masturbation (or fellatio) that leads to the release of semen, especially when performed on a milking table.
Derived terms: milking barn
milking booster
milking machine
milking parlor
milking parlour
milking table
postmilking
sharemilking
gifting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪftɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪftɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gift
gifting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪftɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪftɪŋ
Forms: form: giftings
Senses: examples: text: there is also the exchange of pork a day or two following the marriage ceremony itself; this initiates the long lasting series of yangi toko giftings between the new affinal groups .
ref: 1985, J. Michael Fullingim, Of Pigs, Men and Life: A Glimpse at Wiru Society, page 27:
text: Here too, as across the Pacific in the sagali giftings that were integral to grieving the dead of the Trobriand Islands, the more valuable gifts (given by brothers) are supported by public payments to the guests in the form of items of lesser value (produced by sisters).
ref: 2007, Richard Daly, Our Box Was Full: An Ethnography for the Delgamuukw Plaintiffs, page 38:
text: Importantly, this gifting generates orderly social and political relationships without any need for centralized government and is thus readily recruited in steadfast moral opposition to divisive commodity-based economies, socialities, and politics (see also Gregory 1982).
ref: 2022, Peter Howland ·, Wine and The Gift: From Production to Consumption:
glosses: The act or occasion of giving or exchanging gifts.
examples: text: We all bear His image and likeness, walk in the fullness of His love, and have been given a portion of His power – in the form of divine enablings, and supernatural giftings.
ref: 2009, Tom Cannon, We Speak to Nations, page 145:
text: We asked pastors how much they agree or disagree with the statement, "As a pastor, I feel I have a good sense of the giftings of our congregation."
ref: 2022, Don Everts, Discover Your Gifts:
text: You can't, for example, buy compassion or artistic abilities, and you can't buy prophetic giftings.
ref: 2024, Debra Giles, Raising Prophetic Kids:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A divine gift.
Derived terms: gifting suite
imprinting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imprintings
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
qualifier: ethology
glosses: Any kind of phase-sensitive learning (learning occurring at a particular age or a particular life stage) that is rapid and apparently independent of the consequences of behavior.
Derived terms: bioimprinting
misimprinting
sexual imprinting
imprinting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imprint
screwing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of screw
screwing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screwings
Senses: examples: text: I fear there is too much reason to acknowledge the truth of his remarks regarding the original formation of railways, but are the screwings out of the poor pittance received by some of the 20,000 at present employed to keep them in operation, to be the means of compensating the proprietors for the folly and extravagance then displayed?
ref: 1843, Railway Times, volume 6, page 1260:
text: But this was a sadly lingering process, since there must be as many screwings and unscrewings as there are copies to be printed.
ref: 1854, George Dodd, The Curiosities of Industry and the Applied Sciences, page 35:
glosses: The act by which something is screwed (in various senses).
glosses: An act of sexual intercourse.
Derived terms: the screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you get
the screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you're going to get
the screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you take
screwing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more screwing
form: most screwing
Senses: glosses: Exacting; extortionate; close.
erroring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of error
baching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bach
tooling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tool
tooling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toolings
Senses: glosses: Work or ornamentation done with a tool.
glosses: The provision of tools for an industrial process or for software development.
Derived terms: blind tooling
billing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bill
billing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: billings
Senses: glosses: Amounts billed.
glosses: Accounts receivable.
glosses: The tracking of bills and amounts owed; the department within an institution or business that deals with the tracking of bills and amounts owed.
examples: text: Actors that may have higher status in the industry won't always get top billing: if they only played a bitpart then it would go to the person whose character was the main focus of the movie.
ref: 2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, The Art of Movies:
text: When Corbyn finally gave a speech – in a stunning piece of billing that could only happen at Glastonbury, he appeared between hip-hop duo Run the Jewels and Southampton’s foremost R&B loverman Craig David – the crowd brought the entire area around the Pyramid stage to a standstill
ref: 2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian:
topics: broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: The act or situation of including someone or something among those that make up a complete list.
Derived terms: billing and cooing
bulk billing
e-billing
self-billing
star billing
top billing
value billing
championing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of champion
championing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: championings
Senses: examples: text: Do the championings of a right that is so to speak separated from truth-values on occasions falling within the process of formal enactment have truth-values beforehand?
ref: 1968, David Braybrooke, Three tests for democracy, page 31:
glosses: The act of one who champions something; fervent support.
forking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: forked, crooked or winding
Derived terms: unforking
forking
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: euphemistic fucking (intensifier)
forking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fork
forking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forkings
Senses: examples: text: the forkings of a road, or of a deer's antlers
glosses: division into forks
koshering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kosher
regreting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of regretting.
creeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹiːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of creed
snowballing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowballings
Senses: glosses: The act or practice of making and throwing snowballs.
glosses: A situation which rapidly gets out of control.
snowballing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: "Operating the WCML at this intensity makes it challenging to maintain acceptable performance levels, resulting in a frustratingly unreliable service for passengers. Minor disruption can escalate into significant delays because a train running only a few minutes late can miss its slot across a junction, resulting in a snowballing effect across the network."
ref: 2020 May 6, Philip Haigh, “Just one more stop on the long journey to HS2 fulfillment [sic]”, in RAIL, page 65:
glosses: present participle and gerund of snowball
fractioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fraction
fractioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fractionings
Senses: glosses: A division or breaking into fractions.
harping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑɹpɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhɑːpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)pɪŋ
Forms: form: harpings
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: singular of harpings
harping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑɹpɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhɑːpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)pɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of harp
Related terms: cat-harping
harping iron
harping Johnny
centering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: centreing
form: centring
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of center
centering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centerings
form: centreing
form: centring
Senses: glosses: A type of formwork which serves as a temporary structure during the construction of arches and bridges.
glosses: The process of moving something to a centre, normally before some other process.
Derived terms: miscentering
noncentering
nailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nail
nailing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nailings
Senses: glosses: A mechanical fastening by means of nails.
examples: text: I haven't had a guy in months, I really need a good nailing.
glosses: An act of sexual intercourse, especially a hard one
Derived terms: blind nailing
vectoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vector
railroading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of railroad
railroading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: railroadings
Senses: examples: text: The recommendations of the Air Brake Association and the rules of the other railroads cited in this report differ in some respects, but the underlying intent of all is the common desire to prevent the most feared event in railroading - the irrevocable loss of control of trains descending mountain grades.
ref: 1981 August 18, National Transportation Safety Board, “Adequacy of Current UP Air Brake Rules and Instructions”, in Railroad Accident Report: Rear-End Collision of Union Pacific Railroad Company Freight Trains Extra 3119 West and Extra 8044 West, Near Kelso, California, November 17, 1980, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2022, page 32:
text: The terminology used in model railroading is one of the toughest things for beginners, but don't try to memorize everything all at once. You may not know the difference between a PS-1 and a GP7 today, but with time you'll be talking like an old hand.
ref: 1999, Marty McGuirk, N Scale Model Railroading: Getting Started in the Hobby, page 5:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The operation of a railroad.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The class of people, equipment, terminology, and lore pertaining to railroads.
examples: text: Some at City Hall are perturbed that delivering the superhighway and other cycling schemes is becoming a “railroading” exercise.
ref: 2014 September 18, Dave Hill, “Boris Johnson's cycling vision. A political railroading exercise?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A procedure conducted in haste without due consideration.
importing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of import
shanghaiing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shanghai
shanghaiing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪɪŋ
Forms: form: shanghaiings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who shanghais; a press-ganging or abduction.
toilet papering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of toilet paper
limbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of limb
fathoming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fathom
fathoming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fathomings
Senses: glosses: An act of fathoming, or the act of fathoming.
banjaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of banjax
occulting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of occult
wheeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wheel
wheeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːlɪŋ
Forms: form: wheelings
Senses: examples: text: the wheelings of birds in the sky
text: Still talking—more to herself than to the children—she swam into a majestical dance of the stateliest balancings, the haughtiest wheelings and turnings aside, the most dignified sinkings, the gravest risings, all joined together by the elaboratest interlacing steps and circles.
ref: 1910, Rudyard Kipling, Rewards and Fairies:
glosses: The motion of something that wheels.
glosses: The act of moving or conveying on wheels.
Derived terms: four-wheeling
free-wheeling
wheeling and dealing
wheeling machine
word-wheeling
spooling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spool
spooling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoolings
Senses: examples: text: Hence, if a query is parallelized correctly it can benefit also from parallel I/O facilities and from the increased database cache that can reduce disk spoolings.
ref: 1998, Ashish Gupta, Oded Shmueli, Jennifer Widom, Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth International Conference on Very Large Databases:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The operation of placing something in temporary storage, i.e. a spool.
bracketing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bracket
bracketing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bracketings
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.
glosses: The act of enclosing (text, etc.) in brackets.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A technique used to display the internal structure of a string of elements, in a similar manner to that used in mathematics and symbolic logic.
Derived terms: autobracketing
rebracketing
visioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vision
visioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visionings
Senses: examples: text: […] a blurred portrait of the Ettarre he loved, that ageless lovable and loving woman of whom all poets had been granted fitful broken glimpses — dimly prefiguring her advent into his life too, with pallid and feeble visionings.
ref: 1917, James Branch Cabell, The Cream of the Jest:
glosses: The act by which something is envisioned.
retailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retail
retailing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retailings
Senses: examples: text: It is not without interest to observe in those remote times, and under a social system so widely different from the modern, the same small causes that ruffle and interrupt the "course of love," which operate so commonly at this day; -- the same inventive jealousy, the same cunning slander, the same crafty and fabricated retailings of petty gossip, which so often now suffice to break the ties of the truest love, and counteract the tenor of circumstances most apparently propitious.
ref: 1834, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Bart, The Last Days of Pompeii:
text: Where abundance is a point, rather than fine fruit for retailings, as in some districts in the South, seedling peaches are preferred to the grafted kinds.
ref: 1896, Meehans' Monthly:
text: A cold chain refers to the procurement, warehousing, transportation, and retailing of products under controlled temperature conditions.
ref: 2009, K.V. S. Madaan, Fundamentals of Retailing, →ISBN, page 298:
text: This is a result of a switch from High Street to online retailing, requiring consumer goods to be delivered to the door from large-scale distribution parks that have sufficient traffic to justify a rail terminal.
ref: 2024 January 10, 'Industry Insider', “Success built on liberalisation and market freedom”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 69:
glosses: The business of selling directly to the consumer; retail.
Derived terms: e-retailing
micro-retailing
guesting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guestings
Senses: glosses: An appearance as a guest on a TV show
guesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of guest
canting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From cant + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cant
canting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more canting
form: most canting
Etymology: From cant + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: "You damned, canting, hypocritical box-of-tricks. I'll be even with you yet." The heavy door slammed behind him.
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:
glosses: That cants or preaches in a false manner.
Derived terms: cantingly
cantingness
canting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cantings
Etymology: From Javanese ꦕꦤ꧀ꦛꦶꦁ (canthing).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tjanting.
yawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yaw
jawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jaw
jawing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jawings
Senses: examples: text: There were jawings, bickerings, heart-burnings.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain, The Canvasser's Tale:
glosses: A scolding.
pawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔːɪŋ
-ɔːɹɪŋ (intrusive R)
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of paw
pawing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔːɪŋ
-ɔːɹɪŋ (intrusive R)
Forms: form: pawings
Senses: examples: text: Firelight could be seen reflected on the ceiling of the drawing-room. Inside the deep stone porch, the heavy door was scarred by the pawings of many generations of dogs.
ref: 1946, Mazo de la Roche, Return to Jalna:
glosses: The act of one who paws.
shrimping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The practice or business of fishing for shrimp.
glosses: The sexual practice of toe-sucking.
shrimping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shrimp
pooing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of poo
congealing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of congeal
gasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gast
leafing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːfɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːfɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of leaf
leafing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːfɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːfɪŋ
Forms: form: leafings
Senses: examples: text: Each of them branded on his memory thanks to mindless leafings through the greasy hotel guidebook.
ref: 2013, John le Carré, A Delicate Truth:
glosses: The act of one who leafs through something.
glosses: Synonym of vernation (“the appearance of new leaves on plants”).
synonyms: word: vernation
extra: the appearance of new leaves on plants
Derived terms: tea-leafing
skunking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skunk
flouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flour
lusting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lust
Derived terms: lustingly
lusting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lustings
Senses: examples: text: These depraved lustings after flesh, grease, narcotics, etc., are a disgrace to human nature; you ought to be ashamed of them, and eradicate and destroy them as soon as possible.
ref: 1851, J. Bradford Sax, The Organic Laws; Or, the Laws which Govern the Human Organism:
glosses: The act of one who lusts.
vetoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of veto
outsmarting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outsmart
outsmarting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outsmartings
Senses: examples: text: If I am five years old I perceive Bugs as a funny bunny with a unique voice and I appreciate his slapstick pie-in-the-face humor, especially his manipulations and outsmartings of Elmer Fudd, his arch nemesis.
ref: 2010, George Comstock, Erica Scharrer, Media and the American Child, page 61:
glosses: An instance of somebody being outsmarted.
bulking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulkings
Senses: examples: text: Filamentous bacteria may cause the bulking of activated sludge.
glosses: The development of bulk; solidification.
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
antonyms: cutting
glosses: A period of intentional weight gain.
Derived terms: bulking agent
dirty bulking
bulking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bulk
deserting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of desert
drafting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: draughting
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of draft
drafting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draftings
form: draughting
Senses: glosses: The act or process of producing a technical drawing, or draft.
glosses: A profession, usually related to making technical drawings for architecture, engineering, or manufacturing.
glosses: The practice among ground vehicle drivers or cyclists of following in a close line to reduce wind resistance.
glosses: A method of preparing fibers for weaving.
topics: firefighting
government
glosses: The act or process of drawing water out of a source.
Derived terms: drafting pencil
drafting board
drafting site
drafting table
crimping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪmpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪmpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crimp
crimping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪmpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪmpɪŋ
Forms: form: crimpings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is crimped.
threading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹɛdɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thread
threading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹɛdɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛdɪŋ
Forms: form: threadings
Senses: examples: text: The majority, 96.2 percent, of the e-mails had only up to four threadings.
ref: 2011, Alexander Gelbukh, Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, page 236:
glosses: The act or process by which something is threaded (in various senses).
glosses: An ancient Eastern method for removing hair by means of a thread, which is rolled over the hair in order to pluck it out at the follicle level.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A screw thread.
Derived terms: cross-threading
worming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of worm
worming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wormings
Senses: examples: text: […] you will need to spend a lot more time training and socializing your Beagle, and must endure the sometimes difficult stages of teething, chewing, adolescent exuberance, and frequent veterinarian visits for vaccinations and wormings.
ref: 2001, Kristine Kraeuter, Training Your Beagle, page 15:
glosses: The act by which an animal is wormed.
examples: text: I think the smaller hook gave better results, with the larger leading to the unappetizing "worming" of chenille.
ref: 2010, Dora Ohrenstein, Creating Crochet Fabric: Experimenting with Hook, Yarn & Stitch:
text: The other thing you can do is stick with yarns that don't have a reputation for worming.
ref: 2011, Clara Parkes, The Knitter's Book of Yarn:
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
glosses: The tendency of certain yarn or thread to bunch up after being woven.
seeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of seed
seeding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
Forms: form: seedings
Senses: examples: text: Everybody likes to second‐guess computers, including who seed the pros. Nothing could have better exposed the vulnerability of the computer seeding than the spectacle of clay‐court experts looking like weekend hackers on grass.
ref: 1979 July 2, “Reflection on the Seedings Fills Pause at Wimbledon”, in The New York Times:
topics: games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The arrangement of positions in a tournament.
Derived terms: cloud seeding
cloud-seeding
mast seeding
seeding plough
vaginal seeding
vacationing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vacation
vacationing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vacationings
Senses: glosses: The taking of a vacation or holiday.
carting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tɪŋ
Etymology: From cart + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cart
carting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tɪŋ
Forms: form: cartings
Etymology: From cart + -ing.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: wagonage
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glosses: The transport of goods by cart.
examples: text: When Rowland Hill, Lord Mayor in 1550, instigated the carting of notable citizens for unchastity, several of them ‘told him that it was not right to be so severe […]’.
ref: 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 15:
glosses: The transport of someone in a cart through the streets as part of a public punishment or humiliation.
crediting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɛdɪtɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of credit
crediting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɛdɪtɪŋ/
Forms: form: creditings
Senses: glosses: The act of making a credit in accounting.
sprouting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sprout
sprouting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sproutings
Senses: examples: text: The historical record before the war and after shows a tendency toward independent political action in the recurrent sproutings of numerous Labor Reform and Workingmen's parties[…]
ref: 2009, Alan Dawley, Class and Community, page 196:
text: What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq.
ref: 2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The act by which something sprouts.
replevining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of replevin
mooring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔːɹɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of moor
mooring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔːɹɪŋ
Forms: form: moorings
Senses: examples: text: Then did the comet break loose from his moorings and the eclipse roamed about the sky, and down on the earth did Death’s three children—Famine, Pestilence, and Drought—come out to feed.
ref: 1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 31:
text: On the Lincolnshire side of the Humber, the Pier Station at New Holland was put out of action when the ferry boat plying to and from Hull broke loose from its moorings.
ref: 1953 May, “British Railways and the January Floods”, in Railway Magazine, page 301:
text: On the opposite wall, the R101 tragedy is recalled by the airship's tattered ensign in a glass case, a plaque from the Royal Airship Works and a photograph of the dirigible at her moorings.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 101:
glosses: A place to moor a vessel.
glosses: The act of securing a vessel with a cable or anchor etc.
examples: 1890, John George Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History
The party of pro-slavery reaction was for the moment in the ascendant; and as by an irresistible impulse, the Supreme Court of the United States was swept from its hitherto impartial judicial moorings into the dangerous seas of polities.
1898, Coates, Florence Earle, song: "Friendship from its Moorings Strays"
Friendship from its moorings strays,
Love binds fast together;
Friendship is for balmy days,
Love for stormy weather.
glosses: Something to which one adheres, or the means that helps one to maintain a stable position and keep one's identity - moral, intellectual, political, etc.
Derived terms: mooring block
mooring buoy
mooring post
mooring ring
Related terms: dock
wharf
maneuvering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of maneuver
maneuvering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maneuverings
Senses: examples: text: As a retired Unesco official with much experience in conserving monuments, Mr. Mutal, 73, has been caught up in the bureaucratic maneuverings to save it.
ref: 2007 October 2, John Tagliabue, “A New Wave of Support for Anne Frank’s Ailing Tree”, in The New York Times:
text: With his legal maneuverings, Trump is showing that he also understands the implications of this election — one that could give him substantial powers as president to defray or dismiss many of the legal threats that he’s facing and to behave in office without future accountability.
ref: 2024 February 5, Stephen Collinson, “Trump’s legal battles are at a critical moment with major implications for the 2024 election”, in CNN:
glosses: An act in which something or someone maneuvers
raw_tags: of maneuver
Derived terms: astronaut maneuvering unit
maneuvering room
manned maneuvering unit
peppering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pepper
peppering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pepperings
Senses: examples: text: Besides, the advantage sought is but a cowardly advantage; for when all is said, the pepperings from the small shot of female eloquence are great only to little men.
ref: 1840, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, volume 60, page 57:
glosses: A light sprinkling or spray, as with black pepper specks, bullets, or questions.
grunting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹʌntɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌntɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English gruntynge (“grunting”); equivalent to grunt + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grunt
grunting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹʌntɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌntɪŋ
Forms: form: gruntings
Etymology: From Middle English gruntynge (“grunting”); equivalent to grunt + -ing.
Senses: examples: the gruntings of contented pigs
glosses: A sound of grunts.
grunting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹʌntɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌntɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English gruntynge (“grunting”); equivalent to grunt + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Tired with the heat and my walk, I threw myself down on the grass in the shadow of the house, where I lay half-asleep enjoying a quiet rest, when I was startled by an unpleasant clamour, the jarring voice of a woman, who was trying by alternately scolding and using pet names to pacify a litter of grunting pigs on the farm.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 278:
glosses: Producing grunts.
Derived terms: gruntingly
grunting ox
registering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of register
allaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of allay
allaying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allayings
Senses: examples: text: These high and gusty relishes of life, sure,
Have no allayings of mortality in them.
ref: 1802, Charles Lamb, John Woodvil:
glosses: An allayment.
dialing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dialling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dial
dialing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dialings
form: dialling
Senses: examples: text: Even with that many votes, a few thousand errant dialings could affect the results.
ref: 2008 April 12, Edward Wyatt, “As Callers, ‘Idol’ Fans Often Lack Real Talent”, in New York Times:
glosses: The act by which a number is dialed.
glosses: The art of constructing dials.
glosses: The science of measuring time by use of a dial.
glosses: A method of surveying, especially in mines, in which the bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make with each other, are determined by means of the circumferentor; the use of a miner's dial.
Derived terms: decadic dialing
decadic dialling
demon dialing
dialling code
dialling tone
loop disconnect dialing
pulse dialling
rotary dialing
tone dialling
touch-tone dialling
gluttoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glutton
bothering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bother
bothering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bothering
form: most bothering
Senses: examples: text: ‘I never told you, I had a bothering experience with him. Nothing came of it fortunately.’
ref: 1973, Christina Stead, The Little Hotel, Text Classics, published 2016, page 177:
glosses: That bothers; annoying, irritating.
Derived terms: unbothering
bothering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: botherings
Senses: glosses: The action of troubling or disturbing someone
buffeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buffetings
Senses: examples: text: Though still early in the afternoon, the ceaseless buffetings of a most tempestuous wind made us feel weary […]
ref: 1907, Algernon Blackwood, The Willows:
text: He suspected it was mainly for this that he married her, to be his shield against the world’s buffetings.
ref: 2008 April 27, Benjamin Black, “The Lemur”, in New York Times:
glosses: A blow or motion that buffets.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: random, irregular motion of the plane or of one of its parts caused by turbulences in the airflow
buffeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buffet
dunging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dung
dunging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dungings
Senses: examples: text: This was done by a great Farmer, that lived about two Miles distant from me, who, by good Plowings and Dungings, in the Year 1739, had got his gravelly and chalky loamy Land in very fine Order, for sowing it with Wheat […]
ref: 1744, William Ellis, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: An application of manure, to fertilize land.
inheriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inherit
Derived terms: noninheriting
angering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of anger
junking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of junk
anteing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ante
impressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impress
sneering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sneering
form: most sneering
Senses: examples: text: He made a sneering comment about their closeness.
glosses: Contemptful, mocking.
sneering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sneer
sneering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sneerings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who sneers.
nerfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nerf
captaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of captain
appending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of append
appending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appendings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is appended.
photoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of photo
oathing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oath
wanking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wank
sleeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sleet
tiering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tier
orbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of orb
defecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defect
spooning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: The sense denoting nestled repose is by metaphor with the way that spoons stack together compactly.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spoon