| 单词 | motorboating |
| 释义 | motorboating in British English (ˈməʊtəˌbəʊtɪŋ) noun travelling by motorboat motorboating in American English (ˈmoutərˌboutɪŋ) noun 1. the recreational activity of operating or traveling in a motorboat 2. a malfunction in audio equipment resulting in sounds like those produced by an outboard motor Word origin [1925–30; motorboat + -ing1]This word is first recorded in the period 1925–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Nazi, distinctive feature, hot spot, recycle, turnaround-ing is a suffix of nouns formed from verbs, expressing the action of the verb or itsresult, product, material, etc. (the art of building; a new building; cotton wadding). It is also used to form nouns from words other than verbs (offing; shirting). Verbal nouns ending in -ing are often used attributively (the printing trade) and in forming compounds (drinking song). In some compounds (sewing machine), the first element might reasonably be regarded as the participial adjective, -ing, the compound thus meaning “a machine that sews,” but it is commonly taken as a verbalnoun, the compound being explained as “a machine for sewing”Examples of 'motorboating' in a sentence |
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