yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
gifting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Inflected forms:
form: giftings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or occasion of giving or exchanging gifts.
pos: noun
examples: 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 .
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).
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).
gloss: A divine gift.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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."
You can't, for example, buy compassion or artistic abilities, and you can't buy prophetic giftings.
Derived words: gifting suite
Translations:
imprinting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: imprintings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
screwing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: screwings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is screwed (in various senses).
pos: noun
examples: 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?
But this was a sadly lingering process, since there must be as many screwings and unscrewings as there are copies to be printed.
gloss: An act of sexual intercourse.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
Derived words: 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
Translations:
tooling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: toolings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Work or ornamentation done with a tool.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The provision of tools for an industrial process or for software development.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: blind tooling
Translations:
billing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
Inflected forms:
form: billings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Amounts billed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Accounts receivable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The tracking of bills and amounts owed; the department within an institution or business that deals with the tracking of bills and amounts owed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act or situation of including someone or something among those that make up a complete list.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
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
Derived words: billing and cooing
bulk billing
e-billing
self-billing
star billing
top billing
value billing
Translations:
championing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: championings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who champions something; fervent support.
pos: noun
examples: 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?
Translations:
forking
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: forkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: forked, crooked or winding
pos: adj
gloss: euphemistic fucking (intensifier)
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: division into forks
pos: noun
examples: the forkings of a road, or of a deer's antlers
Translations:
snowballing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: snowballings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or practice of making and throwing snowballs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A situation which rapidly gets out of control.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
Translations:
fractioning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fractionings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A division or breaking into fractions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
centering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: centerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: centreing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: centring
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of formwork which serves as a temporary structure during the construction of arches and bridges.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The process of moving something to a centre, normally before some other process.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: miscentering
noncentering
Translations:
nailing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: nailings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mechanical fastening by means of nails.
pos: noun
gloss: An act of sexual intercourse, especially a hard one
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: I haven't had a guy in months, I really need a good nailing.
Derived words: blind nailing
Translations:
railroading
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Inflected forms:
form: railroadings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The operation of a railroad.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
usually
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: The class of people, equipment, terminology, and lore pertaining to railroads.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
usually
gloss: A procedure conducted in haste without due consideration.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: Some at City Hall are perturbed that delivering the superhighway and other cycling schemes is becoming a “railroading” exercise.
Translations:
fathoming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fathomings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of fathoming, or the act of fathoming.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
wheeling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wheelings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The motion of something that wheels.
pos: noun
examples: the wheelings of birds in the sky
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.
gloss: The act of moving or conveying on wheels.
pos: noun
Derived words: four-wheeling
free-wheeling
wheeling and dealing
wheeling machine
word-wheeling
Translations:
spooling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: spoolings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The operation of placing something in temporary storage, i.e. a spool.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Translations:
bracketing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: bracketings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of enclosing (text, etc.) in brackets.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
Derived words: autobracketing
rebracketing
Translations:
visioning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: visionings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is envisioned.
pos: noun
examples: […] 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.
Translations:
retailing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: retailings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The business of selling directly to the consumer; retail.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
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.
A cold chain refers to the procurement, warehousing, transportation, and retailing of products under controlled temperature conditions.
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.
Translations:
guesting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: guestings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An appearance as a guest on a TV show
pos: noun
Translations:
canting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cant
English -ing
English canting
From cant + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more canting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most canting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That cants or preaches in a false manner.
pos: adj
examples: "You damned, canting, hypocritical box-of-tricks. I'll be even with you yet." The heavy door slammed behind him.
Translations:
jawing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: jawings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A scolding.
pos: noun
examples: There were jawings, bickerings, heart-burnings.
Translations:
pawing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pawings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who paws.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Translations:
shrimping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The practice or business of fishing for shrimp.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The sexual practice of toe-sucking.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
Translations:
leafing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: leafings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who leafs through something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Each of them branded on his memory thanks to mindless leafings through the greasy hotel guidebook.
gloss: Synonym of vernation (“the appearance of new leaves on plants”).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: tea-leafing
Translations:
lusting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lustings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who lusts.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Translations:
outsmarting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: outsmartings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instance of somebody being outsmarted.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Translations:
bulking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: bulkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The development of bulk; solidification.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Filamentous bacteria may cause the bulking of activated sludge.
gloss: A period of intentional weight gain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: bulking agent
dirty bulking
Translations:
drafting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: firefighting
government
Inflected forms:
form: draftings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: draughting
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of producing a technical drawing, or draft.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A profession, usually related to making technical drawings for architecture, engineering, or manufacturing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The practice among ground vehicle drivers or cyclists of following in a close line to reduce wind resistance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A method of preparing fibers for weaving.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act or process of drawing water out of a source.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: drafting pencil
drafting board
drafting site
drafting table
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: начертаване
roman: načertavane
lang: Finnish
word: tekninen piirtäminen
lang: Irish
word: línitheoireacht
lang: Spanish
word: dibujo técnico
crimping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: crimpings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is crimped.
pos: noun
Translations:
threading
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: threadings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process by which something is threaded (in various senses).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The majority, 96.2 percent, of the e-mails had only up to four threadings.
Delighted with the results and eager to try my hand at creating my own Corris-effect drafts, I studied the threading and eventually recognized the pattern. The effect results from three parallel threadings where each end is followed by others of two different colors on the third and sixth shafts above the original […]
gloss: 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; especially used in the context of eyebrows.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A screw thread.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: cross-threading
dethreading
hyperthreading
multithreading
Translations:
worming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
Inflected forms:
form: wormings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which an animal is wormed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] 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.
gloss: The tendency of certain yarn or thread to bunch up after being woven.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I think the smaller hook gave better results, with the larger leading to the unappetizing "worming" of chenille.
The other thing you can do is stick with yarns that don't have a reputation for worming.
Translations:
seeding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: seedings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The arrangement of positions in a tournament.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Translations:
vacationing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: vacationings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The taking of a vacation or holiday.
pos: noun
Translations:
carting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old Norse kartrbor.
Proto-Germanic *kradô
Proto-West Germanic *krat
Old English crætder.
Middle English cart
English cart
English -ing
English carting
From cart + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: cartings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The transport of goods by cart.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: wagonage
gloss: The transport of someone in a cart through the streets as part of a public punishment or humiliation.
pos: noun
examples: 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 […]’.
Translations:
crediting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: creditings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of making a credit in accounting.
pos: noun
Translations:
sprouting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sproutings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something sprouts.
pos: noun
examples: 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[…]
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.
Translations:
mooring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: moorings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A place to moor a vessel.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
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.
gloss: The act of securing a vessel with a cable or anchor etc.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
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.
Related words: dock
wharf
Derived words: mooring block
mooring buoy
mooring line
mooring post
mooring ring
Translations:
maneuvering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: maneuverings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act in which something or someone maneuvers
pos: noun
tags: US
gerund
examples: 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.
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.
Translations:
peppering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pepperings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A light sprinkling or spray, as with black pepper specks, bullets, or questions.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
literally
examples: 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.
Translations:
grunting
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English gruntynge (“grunting”); equivalent to grunt + -ing.
Base: grunt
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: gruntings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sound of grunts.
pos: noun
examples: the gruntings of contented pigs
gloss: Producing grunts.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
Translations:
allaying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: allayings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An allayment.
pos: noun
examples: These high and gusty relishes of life, sure,
Have no allayings of mortality in them.
Translations:
dialing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dialings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dialling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act by which a number is dialed.
pos: noun
examples: Even with that many votes, a few thousand errant dialings could affect the results.
gloss: The art of constructing dials.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: The science of measuring time by use of a dial.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
Derived words: decadic dialing
decadic dialling
demon dialing
dialling code
dialling tone
loop disconnect dialing
pulse dialling
rotary dialing
tone dialling
touch-tone dialling
Translations:
bothering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more bothering
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bothering
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: botherings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That bothers; annoying, irritating.
pos: adj
examples: ‘I never told you, I had a bothering experience with him. Nothing came of it fortunately.’
gloss: The action of troubling or disturbing someone
pos: noun
Translations:
buffeting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: buffetings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A blow or motion that buffets.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Though still early in the afternoon, the ceaseless buffetings of a most tempestuous wind made us feel weary […]
He suspected it was mainly for this that he married her, to be his shield against the world’s buffetings.
gloss: random, irregular motion of the plane or of one of its parts caused by turbulences in the airflow
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
sneering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more sneering
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sneering
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sneerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Contemptful, mocking.
pos: adj
examples: He made a sneering comment about their closeness.
gloss: The act of one who sneers.
pos: noun
Translations:
appending
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: appendings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is appended.
pos: noun
Translations:
tiering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
pos: noun
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
spooning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The sense denoting nestled repose is by metaphor with the way that spoons stack together compactly.
Inflected forms:
form: spoonings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of the verb to spoon
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Frederick alternated between sips of coffee and spoonings of raspberries.
gloss: The action of the verb to spoon
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: spoonlike
spoonwise
Translations:
tilling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English tyllynge, tiling, tilinge, telynge, from Old English tilung, teolung, equivalent to till + -ing.
Base: till
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: tillings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who tills.
pos: noun
examples: The farmer's field requires regular tillings.
Translations:
fingerprinting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fingerprintings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of recording an individual's fingerprints.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A test made to establish and confirm the properties of a material or components.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: brain fingerprinting
brainwave fingerprinting
DNA fingerprinting
genetic fingerprinting
Translations:
warding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wardings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who wards.
pos: noun
examples: The study of defense mechanisms will remain incomplete so long as they are regarded chiefly as wardings off, renunciations and negative assertions.
Translations:
filtering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: filterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of passing something through a filter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something that passes through a filter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the filterings from the subsoils
Waking up in Langogne in a dim dawn, I felt in a strange sort of way more at home than I'd been for a long time in my own sadly altered version of home, even a year on from her death – especially in the first filterings of daylight […]
Synonyms: filtrate
Derived words: lane filtering
Translations:
damning
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English dampnynge; equivalent to damn + -ing.
Base: damn
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more damning
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most damning
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: damnings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Condemning.
pos: adj
examples: damning evidence was clear for all to see
In terms of infrastructure, Frank says there has been better news in recent years, following a highly damning report prepared for the Friends of the Far North Line campaign group by consultant Tony Glazebrook [...].
gloss: A condemnation.
pos: noun
examples: This elicited damnings from pulpit and press, and insured a healthy run.
gloss: An act of swearing with the word "damn".
pos: noun
examples: No man is believed a jot the more for all the asseverations, damnings, and swearings he makes.
Translations:
soldiering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: soldierings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The work of a soldier; military action.
pos: noun
examples: Thus the two comrades came back from their soldierings to their humble homes, from which Lincoln was soon to start on the way marked out for him by Providence, with strides which no comrade, with whatever goodwill, might hope to follow.
All modern armies rely on veritable fleets of drones for routine soldiering (static garrisons, patrols, etc.).
Translations:
dissenting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more dissenting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dissenting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Showing a strongly different opinion, belief, or viewpoint.
pos: adj
Translations:
repenting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: repentings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: repentance
pos: noun
examples: He reveals to the soul that conviction of sin, deep repentings, a sense of our utter helplessness, are not grounds of acceptance with Christ, but simply a consciousness of our spiritual wretchedness[…]
Translations:
charting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: chartings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is charted.
pos: noun
examples: What the dentist sees is paramount here, and ideally what the dentist sees is not a body-orifice but precise structures, through mirrors and X-rays and probings and chartings.
The research agenda followed in this edition takes up a range of problems that include authentic texts of his works, historical accounts defining his period, facts about his life, chartings of his artistic and psychological development, […]
Translations:
dismounting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dismountings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who dismounts.
pos: noun
examples: The stage we had now commenced was eighteen miles in length; but the frequent mountings and dismountings, to climb or to descend the rocky sides of the mountains, made it appear much longer.
Translations:
embarking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: embarkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An embarkation.
pos: noun
Translations:
franking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Inflected forms:
form: frankings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device or marking such as postage stamp, printed or stamped impressions, codings, labels, manuscript writings, or any other authorized form of markings affixed or applied to mails to qualify them to be postally serviced.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A corporate tax system in which some or all of the tax paid by a company may be attributed, or imputed, to the shareholders by way of a tax credit to reduce the income tax payable on a distribution.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
uncountable
Derived words: franking machine
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: frankering
lang: Finnish
word: frankeeraus
lang: German
word: Frankatur
lang: Italian
word: affrancatrice
motioning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: motionings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: movement
pos: noun
examples: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
By gesture she was pretending and by words and by the scarcely perceptible motionings of her eyelids […]
Translations:
mooting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English motinge, moting, from Old English mōtung, equivalent to moot + -ing.
Base: moot
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: mootings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The activity of taking part in a moot court.
pos: noun
examples: In this he had been guided, not by the mootings of lawyers, not by the reveries of pamphlets, not by the conversation of coffee-houses, but by the opinions of minds that were fitter to direct than to co-operate with such minds as his.
Translations:
positioning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: positionings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of positioning; placement.
pos: noun
examples: As well as demonstrating operating facilities, full-size car body models are used for experimenting with new types of interior finish, systems of lighting, positioning of route diagrams and advertisements, and the best form of windscreens at doorways, and the height and location of handgrips and handrails.
If you are following a book like Starting Electronics, however, a breadboard is even more useful. […] Differences lie between breadboards in the spacings and the positionings of the holes, and the number of holes in each group.
37424 had been noted at Barrow Hill with its air horns moved onto the nose (in front of the cab windows) to allow it to work on certain routes where '37s' with roof-mounted horns are barred, such as to Stranraer. However, the horns have now been refitted to their normal position, with the bolts of the alternative positioning still fitted.
Translations:
counseling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: counselings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: counselling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Assistance (especially from a professional) in the resolution of personal difficulties.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
quelling
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: quellings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more quelling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most quelling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is quelled.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: RNA interference.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: causing something to quell or be quelled
pos: adj
Derived words: manquelling
Translations:
awarding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: awardings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of bestowing an award.
pos: noun
examples: 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 […]
gloss: The act of giving by official decision such as giving a contract.
pos: noun
Derived words: contract awarding
Translations:
nesting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: nestings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which a bird nests.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An arrangement by which one thing is nested inside another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the nesting of Russian dolls
gloss: The enclosure of one self-contained element of code inside another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The positioning of a control structure inside another control structure is called nesting e.g. nested-IF and nested-loop.
Derived words: bird-nesting
empty nesting
nesting box
nesting doll
nesting ground
Translations:
beeping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: beepings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instance of beeping; a sound that beeps.
pos: noun
Translations:
foundering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: founderings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which a vessel founders.
pos: noun
examples: It's the nature of founderings that ships have buoyancy and are afloat one second, then lose buoyancy and sink the next.
Translations:
whacking
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Exceptionally large; whopping (often followed by an adjective such as great or big).
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: 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;
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 […]
[…] beside them clung a trumpeter, a whacking big man, an’ between the heavy seas he would lift his trumpet with one hand, and blow a call; and every time he blew the men gave a cheer.
He was what they call a Hard-shell Baptist in those parts, with a long, shaven upper lip and a whacking appetite, and a sort of superior look, as if he didn't expect to see many of us hereafter […]
There was no secret in Genoa about the destination of the little tramp with the peculiar equipment of lifeboats and davits—two whacking great motor boats each as big as a Navy pinnace, each with a couple of hundred horse-power in her.
If any of you want a whacking lot of experience, lots of thrills to the minute and can pay your own freight, sign up for that trip to the land of the Northern Lights.
He seizes on an opportunity to buy a house at a repo-auction, planning to sell it on for a whacking profit.
Translations:
sectioning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sectionings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A division into sections.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: segmentation
gloss: An instance of a person being sectioned.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
examples: Nevertheless, some work reports that black women are overrepresented, comprising up to half of the sectionings […]
Derived words: bisectioning
cryosectioning
microsectioning
Translations:
forwarding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: forwardings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is forwarded.
pos: noun
examples: A third oil company, Gulf, is soon to join Esso and BP in rail forwardings from this port.
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.
Translations:
frothing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: frothings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of something that froths.
pos: noun
examples: frothings at the mouth
Translations:
pocketing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pocketings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pocketting
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of something being taken (usually illicitly purloined).
pos: noun
examples: By their count, the senator's illicit pocketings of money hugely exceeded Garfield's.
gloss: Material used for making pockets for clothing.
pos: noun
examples: Avoid stiff pocketings of 100 percent polyester. To reduce bulk, cut linings for patch pockets from lining fabric rather than self-fabric.
gloss: A structure resembling a pocket or pouch.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Translations:
delaying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: delayings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A delay.
pos: noun
examples: […] 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.
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 […]
Translations:
loafing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: loafings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The idle behaviour of somebody who loafs.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of catloafing.
pos: noun
Derived words: cyberloafing
social loafing
Translations:
soaping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: soapings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cleaning with soap.
pos: noun
Translations:
stationing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: stationings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the putting in a place to perform military duty
pos: noun
Translations:
ploughing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
Inflected forms:
form: ploughings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: plowing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The breaking of the ground into furrows (with a plough) for planting.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
stranding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: strandings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or occasion by which somebody or something is stranded.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The act or occasion by which somebody or something is stranded.
pos: noun
Related words: strandability
strandable
unstrandable
Translations:
prepending
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: prependings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is prepended.
pos: noun
Translations:
shielding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
Inflected forms:
form: shieldings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The situation, in NMR spectroscopy, in which a local magnetic field is weakened by the presence of neighbouring nuclei
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: deshielding
Derived words: radiation shielding
shielding constant
shieldingly
Translations:
targeting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more targeting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most targeting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: targetting
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: targetings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: targetting
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Involved in the transportation or correct positioning of a protein inside or outside a specific region of the cell.
pos: adj
gloss: An instance of targeting.
pos: noun
Translations:
rewarding
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Giving or resulting in reward or satisfaction.
pos: adj
Translations:
tricking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: trickings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Dress; ornament.
pos: noun
examples: Go get us properties / And tricking for our fairies.
Translations:
dwarfing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dwarfings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The situation where something is made to seem (relatively) small or unimportant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Such intentional dwarfings of the human figure can carry different political valences, depending on the work that frames them.
Translations:
befriending
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: befriendings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of making friends with somebody.
pos: noun
Translations:
wrecking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wreckings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is wrecked.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The taking of valuables from a shipwreck close to the shore.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Derived words: wrecking amendment
wrecking ball
wrecking bar
wrecking car
wrecking pump
wrecking yard
Translations:
mastering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more mastering
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mastering
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: masterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
gloss: Becoming professional in the use of something; developing mastery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process by which an audio recording is mastered.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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 […]
Derived words: audio mastering
bus mastering
Dungeon Mastering
game mastering
Translations:
darning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: darnings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A repair made by darning.
pos: noun
examples: 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?
Translations:
compounding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: compoundings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An accumulation of compound interest.
pos: noun
examples: the number of compoundings per year
gloss: The act of mixing or combining substances to make a compound, such as a medicine
pos: noun
examples: 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
gloss: The use of steam more than once in a steam engine or turbine, in additional low-pressure cylinders etc.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Derived words: subcompounding
Translations: