nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: scotching Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of scotch Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: counseling Part of Speech: noun 1. Assistance (especially from a professional) in the resolution of personal difficulties. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: counseling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of counsel Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: auctioning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of auction Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: dreading Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɛdɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of dread Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: obtunding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of obtund Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: occasioning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of occasion Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cacking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of cack Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: perverting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of pervert Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: convicting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of convict Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: quelling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of quell Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: quelling Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is quelled. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle. 2. RNA interference. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: quelling Part of Speech: adj 1. causing something to quell or be quelled
Word: aggrouping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of aggroup Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: awarding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of award Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: awarding Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of bestowing an award. Example: Printed programs for solemn events such as church services, commencements, funerals and memorial services, dedications, and awardings of social recognition of one sort or another often list genres of talk […] 2. The act of giving by official decision such as giving a contract.
Word: turnkeying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of turnkey Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: nesting Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈnɛstɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of nest Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: nesting Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈnɛstɪŋ/ 1. The process by which a bird nests. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An arrangement by which one thing is nested inside another. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the nesting of Russian dolls 3. The enclosure of one self-contained element of code inside another. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The positioning of a control structure inside another control structure is called nesting e.g. nested-IF and nested-loop.
Word: beeping Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈbiːpɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of beep Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: beeping Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbiːpɪŋ/ 1. An instance of beeping; a sound that beeps.
Word: tristing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of trist Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: exploiting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of exploit Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: foundering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of founder Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: foundering Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which a vessel founders. Example: It's the nature of founderings that ships have buoyancy and are afloat one second, then lose buoyancy and sink the next.
Word: whacking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of whack Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: whacking Part of Speech: adj 1. Exceptionally large; whopping (often followed by an adjective such as great or big). Labels: informal, not-comparable Example: 1762, Thomas Bridges, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, London: S. Hooper, 1772, Book 7 of Homer’s Iliad, p. 289, […] all our grannies tell us how He kill’d a whacking great dun cow; Example: 1819, Olivia Clarke, The Irishwoman. A Comedy in Five Acts, London: H. Colburn, Act V, Scene 2, p. 80, […] these two whacking Irish boys, that I was telling you of just now, are posted at the hall door to seize the villain, and take him to pay his respects to the next sitting magistrate […]
Word: whacking Part of Speech: noun 1. A beating. Labels: countable 2. Alternative form of waacking (“dance style”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: porking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of pork Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: protocoling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of protocol Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: sectioning Part of Speech: noun 1. A division into sections. Example: Near-synonym: segmentation 2. An instance of a person being sectioned. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK Example: Nevertheless, some work reports that black women are overrepresented, comprising up to half of the sectionings […]
Word: sectioning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of section Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: yoinking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of yoink Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: foiling Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈfɔɪlɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of foil Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: foiling Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfɔɪlɪŋ/ 1. The act by which something is foiled; prevention of success. Example: the foilings of our expectations 2. The track of game, such as deer, in the grass. 3. A foil. 4. Clipping of hydrofoiling (“the action of sustained hydrodynamic lift on hydrofoils lifting the vessel hull lifted out of the water, for sustained motion across water”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: forwarding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of forward Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: forwarding Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is forwarded. Example: A third oil company, Gulf, is soon to join Esso and BP in rail forwardings from this port. Example: You might think that the GatewayPorts feature discussed in the last section applies equally well to remote port forwardings. This would make sense as a feature, but as it happens, it isn't done.
Word: frothing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of froth Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: frothing Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of something that froths. Example: frothings at the mouth
Word: harboring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of harbor Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pocketing Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of something being taken (usually illicitly purloined). Example: By their count, the senator's illicit pocketings of money hugely exceeded Garfield's. 2. Material used for making pockets for clothing. Example: Avoid stiff pocketings of 100 percent polyester. To reduce bulk, cut linings for patch pockets from lining fabric rather than self-fabric. 3. A structure resembling a pocket or pouch. Example: Vampire bats are capable of perceiving infrared radiation (heat) through the pocketings in their noseleaves that can allow them to find a feeding spot on their prey that is well supplied with blood vessels.
Word: pocketing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of pocket Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: contacting Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈkɑntæktɪŋ/, /kənˈtæktɪŋ/, /ˈkɒntæktɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of contact Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: headbutting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of headbutt Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: headbutting Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of giving a headbutt. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: unchaining Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ʌnˈt͡ʃeɪnɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of unchain Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: delaying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of delay Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: delaying Part of Speech: noun 1. A delay. Example: […] a hearing, with a file of orders in the solicitor's bundle, as big as the common-prayer-book, for commissions, injunctions, publications, speedings, delayings, and other interlocutories; all dear ware to the client in every respect. Example: However, there was no profit in cowardly delayings; booted and breeched, we sallied forth into a cold, ungenial morning such as you get in Switzerland […]
Word: loafing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of loaf Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: loafing Part of Speech: noun 1. The idle behaviour of somebody who loafs. 2. The act of catloafing.
Word: soaping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of soap Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: soaping Part of Speech: noun 1. A cleaning with soap.
Word: stationing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of station Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: stationing Part of Speech: noun 1. the putting in a place to perform military duty
Word: ploughing Part of Speech: noun 1. The breaking of the ground into furrows (with a plough) for planting. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: ploughing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of plough Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: harbingering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of harbinger Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: stranding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of strand Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: stranding Part of Speech: noun 1. The act or occasion by which somebody or something is stranded. Example: All of these factors increase the probability of stranding and the severity of the consequences. Since 2011, there have been several strandings that resulted in unplanned evacuations, because the passengers became desperate from personal discomfort or lack of confidence of being rescued. 2. The act or occasion by which somebody or something is stranded.
Word: mordanting Part of Speech: noun 1. The use of mordant to fix a dye to a fiber.
Word: mordanting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of mordant Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: prepending Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of prepend Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: prepending Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is prepended.
Word: shielding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of shield Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: shielding Part of Speech: noun 1. The situation, in NMR spectroscopy, in which a local magnetic field is weakened by the presence of neighbouring nuclei Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Action done by the person with the ball to protect the ball from the defender; the person concerned keeps his body between the ball and the defender. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: targeting Part of Speech: adj 1. Involved in the transportation or correct positioning of a protein inside or outside a specific region of the cell.
Word: targeting Part of Speech: noun 1. An instance of targeting.
Word: targeting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of target Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: orphaning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of orphan Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: leveling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of level Labels: US, form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: leveling Part of Speech: noun 1. The process of making something level. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In the meantime, the Castilian of northern and central Spain, while retaining most of the traits of the pre-Columbian period, underwent changes and levelings, some of which were shared by the South and hence by America. 2. The process of measuring levels to establish heights and altitudes. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Ellipsis of paradigm leveling, the replacement of irregular forms by regular forms. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
Word: assenting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of assent Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: traying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of tray Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: rewarding Part of Speech: adj 1. Giving or resulting in reward or satisfaction.
Word: rewarding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of reward Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: tricking Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɪkɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of trick Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: tricking Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɪkɪŋ/ 1. Dress; ornament. Example: Go get us properties / And tricking for our fairies.
Word: tricking Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɪkɪŋ/ 1. Deceptive; using trickery. Labels: archaic Example: [I]t is the degenerate fondness for tricking short-cuts, and little fallacious facilities, that has in so many parts of the world created governments with arbitrary powers.
Word: fettering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of fetter Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: fettering Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is fettered or constricted. Example: A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past, or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men. Example: Through this book's exploration of various kinds of fetterings and of one method for thinking beyond them, I want to demonstrate the unique and unfettered hope of the Christian faith.
Word: blimping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of blimp Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: deducting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of deduct Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: dwarfing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of dwarf Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: dwarfing Part of Speech: noun 1. The situation where something is made to seem (relatively) small or unimportant. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Such intentional dwarfings of the human figure can carry different political valences, depending on the work that frames them.
Word: contorting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of contort Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: befriending Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of befriend Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: befriending Part of Speech: noun 1. The process of making friends with somebody.
Word: wrecking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of wreck Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: wrecking Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is wrecked. Example: The propriety of the dissolution, too, was speedily seen in the improved state of the public peace: for twelve years we hear little of Orange riots, and nothing of such burnings and wreckings as those of Maghera, Maghery, and Annahagh. 2. The taking of valuables from a shipwreck close to the shore. Labels: obsolete
Word: mastering Part of Speech: adj Labels: no-gloss
Word: mastering Part of Speech: noun 1. Becoming professional in the use of something; developing mastery. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The process by which an audio recording is mastered. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In considering this whole roster of performances on record, the technical proficiency of the latest ones is unbrookable, and so is the dazzling clarity of the modern digital masterings […]
Word: mastering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of master Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: darning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of darn Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: darning Part of Speech: noun 1. A repair made by darning. Example: Who has told of the turnings, the dyings, the ironings, the darnings, that have gone to make misses of ten pounds a-year pin-money look as smart as the squanderer of five hundred?
Word: harbouring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of harbour Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cheeking Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃiːkɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of cheek Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: compounding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of compound Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: compounding Part of Speech: noun 1. An accumulation of compound interest. Example: the number of compoundings per year 2. The act of mixing or combining substances to make a compound, such as a medicine Example: Arthur Pendennis, his son, was eight years old at the time of this event, so that it is no wonder that the latter, who left Bath and the surgery so young, should forget the existence of such a place almost entirely, and that his father’s hands had ever been dirtied by the compounding of odious pills, or the preparation of filthy plasters 3. The use of steam more than once in a steam engine or turbine, in additional low-pressure cylinders etc. Example: Superheating, first introduced with the "Abs", stopped further development in compounding, in New Zealand as elsewhere, and the "Abs" succeeded in dealing with the growing traffic unaided for more than a decade.
Word: culling Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈkʌlɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of cull Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: culling Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkʌlɪŋ/ 1. The act by which things are culled; the process of selecting for acceptance or removal. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It is he who has done everything the club have asked of him since his arrival, including overseeing the brutal culling of many of the club's legends - Luis Suarez was thrown away in a phone call which, by all accounts, lasted less than 90 seconds. 2. Anything separated or selected from a mass. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The theft of personal possessions from a carriage during a horse race. Labels: UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Culling is performed during races by stepping up on a carriage during the time the horses are coming in, and snatching reticules, silk bags, &c., from the seats of the carriage, the attention of the ladies being drawn to the winning horse.
Word: orgasming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of orgasm Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: delighting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of delight Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: showering Part of Speech: noun 1. Something that falls in a shower. Example: Ovington heard the man's lightly treading step pass away over the lawn, the shrubbery brushed against him noisily, and then the silence slipped back over the place and the faintly moving air shook the fountain into light showerings of spray […]
Word: showering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of shower Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: booing Part of Speech: noun 1. A disapproving exclamation by a member of an audience. Example: How is women's music to be defined for the purpose of holding a national women's music festival? In the past five years, the festival apparently experienced controversy due to contrasting definitions of women's music. There were walkouts and booings of performers who didn't fit within the limitations of some audience members' concepts of women's music. Example: The riot sometimes spills over into the audience, and Kosky bears the proud scars of the booings he has endured.
Word: booing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of boo Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: inverting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of invert Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: inverting Part of Speech: adj 1. That inverts. Labels: not-comparable
Word: inverting Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of something being inverted; an inversion.
Word: unmounting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unmount Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: umounting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of umount Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: blooping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of bloop Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: blooping Part of Speech: noun 1. An instance of blooping; a sound that bloops.
Word: intuiting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of intuit Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: intuiting Part of Speech: noun 1. An instance of intuition. Example: Sensations then, are not perceivings, observings or findings; they are not detectings, scannings or inspectings; they are not apprehendings, cognisings, intuitings or knowings.
Word: lulling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of lull Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mewing Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of producing a mew sound. Labels: countable Example: The mewings of the three kittens kept us awake for most of the night. 2. The practice of flattening one's tongue against the roof of the mouth with the aim of improving jaw and facial structure. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: Some people say that mewing may allow for a better jawline.
Word: mewing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of mew Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: muffing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: In the sexual sense, popularized by Mira Bellwether's 2010 zine "Fucking Trans Women". 1. present participle and gerund of muff Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: muffing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: In the sexual sense, popularized by Mira Bellwether's 2010 zine "Fucking Trans Women". 1. The making of a mistake or gaffe. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable 2. Penetration of the inguinal canal (e.g. with a finger, or by pushing the testicle back inside it) as a form of sexual activity among trans women and other people with testicles. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: Muffing is a penetration technique enjoyed by some non-op trans women. It involves fingering (or otherwise penetrating) the inguinal canals, the canals through which the testes drop during puberty. […] Sometimes the testes are pushed back up into the body during muffing, and sometimes they're simply moved aside […] Example: […] she says she and her partner were having a great time last night and she really enjoyed the muffing.
Word: mulling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of mull Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mulling Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who mulls or thinks over something. Example: My mullings over where to go with my life, and now also where to go after Phuket island, incorporated what I saw in my everyday walks […]
Word: pealing Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈpiːlɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of peal Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pealing Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpiːlɪŋ/ 1. The sound made by bells as they peal. Example: Then when the words were said, and man's form had tried to sanctify that which was already divine, we walked amid the pealings of the “Wedding March” into the vestry[…]
Word: pithing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of pith Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: reaming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of ream Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: reaming Part of Speech: noun 1. The act or process of something being reamed.
Word: redacting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of redact Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: snicking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of snick Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: swanking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of swank Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: trawling Part of Speech: noun 1. A commercial fishing technique in which a net is dragged by a moving boat. Not to be confused with trolling, which drags (one or more) lines. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A laborious search. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: No longer would he have to fear the deportation of Gerald Haxton, who as an American was constantly running that risk in his trawlings through the bars of London.
Word: trawling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of trawl Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: vamping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of vamp Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: vamping Part of Speech: noun 1. The behaviour of one who vamps. Example: It is not only the baleful vampings of the fundamental Christians (the Creationists) that remain opposed to the Darwinian view, but also (and much more significantly) a subjective anthropocentrism that refuses to move over willingly or easily […]
Word: intering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of inter Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: contesting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of contest Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: contesting Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who contests something; a disputation. Example: With regard to these disputes, doubts, and contestings, of the early and the later times of the Republic, I may be allowed to note this: that we may easily wonder how they could have been raised by persons not foreign to the city, but who belonged to those same families the members of which formed part of the government of the Republic.
Word: surrendering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of surrender Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: surrendering Part of Speech: noun 1. An act of surrender.
Word: avowing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of avow Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bailing Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪlɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of bail Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bailing Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪlɪŋ/ 1. The act by which something is bailed. Example: He took a bucket and bailed the muddy stuff out right to the bottom, and let it fill up to be again bailed out. After three bailings the water came in cold, sweet, and pure as crystal.
Word: blurting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of blurt Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: blurting Part of Speech: noun 1. Something that is blurted, or spoken hastily without thinking. Example: The school often has far more information than parents realise, e.g. from the blurtings of the child and his peers, the behaviour of the parents, and what the school bus driver has seen.
Word: champing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of champ Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: champing Part of Speech: noun 1. The sound or action of one who champs (bites or chews). Example: When I passed them each a plate of the fried meat, they ate greedily, making loud mouth-noises — champings of worn teeth and sucking intakes of the breath, accompanied by a continuous spluttering and mumbling.
Word: champing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of church + camping; a concept promoted by The Churches Conservation Trust, a British charity that protects historic churches. Registered in the UK as a trademark in 2015. 1. The practice of camping overnight in historic churches as a novelty or part of a holiday. Labels: neologism, uncountable
Word: cleating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of cleat Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: concerting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of concert Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: concerting Part of Speech: noun 1. Concerted activity; something done together by two or more people. Example: They placed too much reliance too soon on global concertings of international actions by multilateral means. Example: Early concertings establish a joint repertoire of concerted activity for the primary caregiver and the infant. Much of this joint repertoire will be nuts-and-bolts-type concertings common to all caregivers and infants […]
Word: cratering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of crater Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cratering Part of Speech: noun 1. The creation of a crater on a surface. Example: Is the Minister in a position to give the results of ithe Garda investigation of the two latest allegations of deliberate crossings and craterings of Irish roads? Example: Major craterings are quite apparent on the older and non-reworked faces of the other planets and their satellites.
Word: digesting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of digest Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: disarming Part of Speech: adj 1. Charming; likely to put one at ease. Example: a disarming smile Example: Foremost in her arsenal is that smile – so enormous and so absurdly disarming that someone should have worked out a way to harness its power into international conflict resolution.
Word: disarming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of disarm Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: discounting Part of Speech: noun 1. The act or process by which something is discounted. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It is human to have experienced losses, defeats, put-downs, snubs, rejections, criticisms, and discountings. Example: In Excerpts 15 and 16, G more directly claims and imputes knowledge as means for substantiating her position, relying on these alternative resources in responding to S's discountings and withholdings and thereby legitimizing her pursuit. 2. The act or process by which something is discounted. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Similarly, discountings by FICBs are available only for short- and intermediate-term agricultural loans but not for the wide range of other rural credit needs. Example: Many of the ACC's planned to increase FICB discountings during coming years.
Word: discounting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of discount Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: feigning Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪnɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of feign Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: feigning Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪnɪŋ/ 1. Act of one who feigns; fakery; deceit.
Word: feinting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of feint Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: fellowing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of fellow Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: fending Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of fend Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: fouling Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈfaʊlɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of foul Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: A new type of fouling point indicator is being tried out by the London Transport Executive. Until now the standard method of indicating the point nearest to a junction of two stabling roads where a train can stand without fouling the adjacent road has been by fixing the letters "FP" [fouling point] to the sleepers of the road concerned.
Word: fouling Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfaʊlɪŋ/ 1. The adhesion of a foreign material onto a surface, especially so as to reduce its functionality. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Probably, rifling evolved from the early observation of the feathers on an arrow-and from the practical results of cutting channels in a musket, originally to reduce fouling, then because it was found to improve accuracy of the shot.
Word: frisking Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɪskɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of frisk Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: frisking Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɪskɪŋ/ 1. The act or an instance of checking someone's clothes and body for weapons or contraband. 2. The action or motion of one who frisks; a gambol. Example: They are no longer to be amused according to custom, as a mob with the cant of a mountebank, and the leapings, friskings, gambols, and stale jests of tumblers and clowns.
Word: coveting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of covet Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: coveting Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who covets. Example: In the meantime, by the light of this discourse, we clearly see why God so highly prizeth zealous covetings and desires in men after spiritual things […]
Word: knackering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of knacker Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: knapsacking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of knapsack Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: larding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of lard Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: larding Part of Speech: noun 1. Bacon or pork stuffed into other meat before cooking. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: With a small knife or larding pin, cut holes in the beef, to receive the bacon thus prepared; place the lardings tolerably thick and even; rub the beef over with the remainder of the seasoning […] 2. Fat or grease used to lard something. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: looming Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English loom Middle English -ynge English -ing English looming From loom + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈluːmɪŋ/, /ˈlumɪŋ/ 1. gerund of loom: the condition of something that looms or towers. Labels: form-of, gerund Example: But if no world exist in the man; if nothing but continents of empty vapour, of greedy self-conceits, commonplace hearsays, and indistinct loomings of a sordid chaos exist in him, what will be the use of 'light' to show us that?
Word: looming Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English loom Middle English -ynge English -ing English looming From loom + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈluːmɪŋ/, /ˈlumɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of loom Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mustering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of muster Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mustering Part of Speech: noun 1. A bringing together, as of livestock for counting. Example: They are demonstrations in the literal sense: musterings of potential voters, beauty pageants of potential contributors, inventories of the ethnic loyalties that count most in a metropolitan area of a thousand intermingled peoples.
Word: pelting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of pelt Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pelting Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which somebody or something is pelted. Example: […] the rain began to pour down in torrents, and we exposed our persons to the peltings of the shower rather than have our few books and remaining dry clothes injured.
Word: pelting Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Related to paltry. 1. mean; paltry Labels: obsolete Example: I pray you, let us see you in the field; We have had pelting wars since you refused The Grecians' cause. Example: Could great men thunder As Ioue himſelfe do's, Ioue vvould neuer be quiet For euery pelting petty Officer VVould vſe his heauen for thunder; Nothing but thunder: […]
Word: psalming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of psalm Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: punking Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈpʌŋkɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of punk Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: recruiting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of recruit Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: recruiting Part of Speech: noun 1. The process by which a person is recruited; recruitment.
Word: remarking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of remark Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: reprimanding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of reprimand Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: reprimanding Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of giving a reprimand. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: retarding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of retard Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: retarding Part of Speech: noun 1. A slowing or hindrance. Example: It resembled them in the sense that it was not ended, when it was past, but continued to unfold, in Watt's head, from beginning to end, over and over again, the complex connexions of its lights and shadows, the passing from silence to sound and from sound to silence, the stillness before the movement and the stillness after, the quickenings and retardings, the approaches and the separations, all the shifting detail of its march and ordinance, according to the irrevocable caprice of its taking place.
Word: rioting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of riot Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: rioting Part of Speech: noun 1. A riot.
Word: shelling Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈʃɛlɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of shell Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: shelling Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈʃɛlɪŋ/ 1. An artillery bombardment. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Grain from which the husk has been removed. Labels: uncountable 4. An ordering of the facets of a boundary complex such that the intersection of each facet (other than the first) with the union of all preceding facets is homeomorphic to a ball or sphere. See Shelling (topology) Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Shallow, irregular cracks that appear on the surface of a coating such as plaster or mortar. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: shrouding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of shroud Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: The signal was given by shrouding the lights.
Word: shrouding Part of Speech: noun 1. A shroud (annular plate at the periphery of a water wheel, forming side of bucket).
Word: squirting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of squirt Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: squirting Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of something being squirted. Example: Someone had attempted to make the foul ambience less offensive by liberal squirtings with a sickly sweet freshener.
Word: starching Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of starch Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: starking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of stark Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: steeping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of steep Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: steeping Part of Speech: noun 1. An instance of something being steeped; a wetting. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It is usual to expect, that the first two or three wettings or steepings of grain, at the commencement of the malting season, will not make so good malt as succeeding steepings […]
Word: steeping Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the name of Stephen de Fulbourn, who served as bishop of Waterford, archbishop of Tuam, and treasurer and justiciar of Ireland in the 1270s and 1280s. 1. A 13th-century coin circulated in Ireland as a debased sterling silver penny, outlawed under King Edward I. Labels: historical
Word: stenographing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of stenograph Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: subverting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of subvert Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: tainting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of taint Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: telegraphing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of telegraph Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: telegraphing Part of Speech: noun 1. A communication by telegraph. Example: He was given three days to reconsider himself, and the Head of the establishment, after some telegraphings, said that it was a most unusual step […]
Word: tenting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of tent Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: tenting Part of Speech: noun 1. Material used for making tents. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: trolling Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɒlɪŋ/, /ˈtɹəʊlɪŋ/, /ˈtɹoʊlɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of troll Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: trolling Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɒlɪŋ/, /ˈtɹəʊlɪŋ/, /ˈtɹoʊlɪŋ/ 1. The act of one who trolls (in various senses of provoking others). 2. A fishing technique in which one or more baited fishing lines are dragged by a moving boat. Not to be confused with trawling, which drags a net.
Word: tweaking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of tweak Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: tweaking Part of Speech: noun 1. A tweak; a minor modification. Example: The paintings seem concerned, if understatedly, about despoliation and other human tweakings of the landscape.
Word: volunteering Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of voluntarily giving time and labor for charity or community service. Labels: uncountable
Word: volunteering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of volunteer Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: vowing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of vow Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: wallowing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of wallow Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: wallowing Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who wallows. Example: He gives graphic descriptions of the terrors of the Last Judgement and the luxurious wallowings of the blessed in the physical pleasures of Paradise.
Word: wracking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of wrack Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: wreathing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of wreath Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present 2. present participle and gerund of wreathe Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: wreathing Part of Speech: noun 1. The motion or pattern of something that wreaths. Example: To have demolished and rebuilt the walls, would have been a very costly expedient, and as the least of two evils, the painter's brush was resorted to; here and there however, above some of the windows, the black wreathings of the smoke are still discernible through the white covering.
Word: wreathing Part of Speech: adj 1. Having a pattern that wreathes. Example: The ground rose on each side like a wall, but hung with natural tapestry—the creeping plants which in the South take such graceful and wreathing forms in their foliage.
Word: bewailing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of bewail Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bewailing Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who bewails something. Example: We might have been!—these are but common words, And yet they make the sum of life's bewailing; They are the echo of those finer chords, Whose music life deplores when unavailing, We might have been! Example: No suggestions, no words, no bewailings could improve it. Still it was very human to make suggestions, and utter words, and make piteous bewailings over and over again.
Word: disowning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of disown Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: addicting Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From addict + -ing. Pronunciation: /əˈdɪktɪŋ/ 1. Causing addiction. Labels: US Example: whether any of the substances possess addicting properties is very difficult to determine on animals, although efforts are being made to study this aspect of the problem on dogs and monkeys. Example: similar in action to codeine salts but when compared with codeine on the basis of weight is more active, and more addicting.
Word: addicting Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From addict + -ing. Pronunciation: /əˈdɪktɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of addict Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: For though in his Nature there is a Tendency to Rational Pleasures, yet this he may, and very frequently does, stifle and extinguish by addicting himself wholly to the Delights and Gratifications of his Sense Example: Mr. Johnson's communication states that the preparation "has a large sale, and is addicting the public to its use"
Word: uncorking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of uncork Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: Reaching home he went up to his bedroom, shut the door as if he were going to be seen no more in this life, and taking a sheet of paper and uncorking the ink-bottle, he began a letter.
Word: uncorking Part of Speech: noun 1. The removal of a cork from a bottle or similar. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: twinking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of twink Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: furthering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of further Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: furthering Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is furthered; furtherance. Example: […] the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swims and makes his point or else is carried headlong.
Word: scapegoating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of scapegoat Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: scapegoating Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of making somebody a scapegoat. Example: Nazi persecution of Jews, as with other scapegoatings, was focused, systematic and directly lethal. Other oppressions have been more long-term and uneven […]
Word: acquainting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of acquaint Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: contradicting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of contradict Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: contradicting Part of Speech: noun 1. An act of contradiction.
Word: channeling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of channel Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: channeling Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of channelling. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: proclaiming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of proclaim Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: proclaiming Part of Speech: noun 1. proclamation Example: More than one of these dangerous proclaimings of loyalty to him rather than to the King had come to his ears.
Word: adjourning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of adjourn Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: plundering Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who plunders; pillaging or looting; plunder. Example: Not all military exercises by human beings are forbidden. Rather, only disordered and dangerous military exercises that give rise to slayings and plunderings are forbidden.
Word: plundering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of plunder Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: norming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of norm Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present