Meaning of -ing | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used to form nouns or noun-like words (or elements of noun phrases) from verbs, denoting the act of doing something, an action, or the embodiment of an action.
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2. As true nouns.
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3. Used to form present participles of verbs.
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4. Forming derivative nouns (originally masculine), with the sense ‘son of, belonging to’, as in placenames, patronymics or diminutives; -ite.
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5. Forming nouns having a specified quality, characteristic, or nature; of the kind of
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6. As gerunds.
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7. Used to form nouns denoting materials or systems of objects which are used or employed in an action, or considered collectively.
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Equivalents

Examples

“My hearing is not good.”

“I have had several meetings with him.”

“Smoking marijuana cigarettes daily is bad for your health.”

“She has a habit of sleeping late.”

“I like meeting people.”

“Roofing is material that is used to roof.”

“Clothing is material with which one is clothed.”

“The piping is a system of pipes considered collectively.”

“Rolling stones gather no moss.”

“My new cabin, which is going to look over the lake, is getting a brand new roof this winter.”

“I wondered what time the play was starting.”

“Anybody touching this wire will get a deadly shock.”

“When it occurred, I was flying to New York a great deal.”

“We were boogieing from midnight until three o’clock in the morning.”

“a. 2001, Brian Hall, “Beej's Guide to Network Programming”, “Using Internet Sockets” If you are connect()ing to a remote machine […] you can simply call connect(), it'll check to see if the socket is unworthy, and will bind() it to an unused local port if necessary.”

“Ealing, Dorking, Reading, Worthing”

“Browning, Channing, Ewing”

“Middle English *bunt + -ing → bunting”

“skill + -ing → shilling”

“fourth + -ing → farthing”

“sweet + -ing → sweeting”

“white + -ing → whiting”

“geld + -ing → gelding”

“beïng, doïng, goïng”

“skiïng, tryïng”

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