| 单词 | parakiting |
| 释义 | parakiting in British English (ˈpærəˌkaɪtɪŋ) noun the sport of soaring suspended from a parachute which is being towed behind a vehicle parakiting in American English (ˈpærəˌkaitɪŋ) noun parasailing Word origin [1965–70; para(chute) + kite1 + -ing1]This word is first recorded in the period 1965–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Coriolis effect, double-book, hired gun, no-fault, overdub-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” |
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