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-ing
-ing 1suff.1. Used to form the present participle of verbs: seeing.2. Used to form adjectives resembling present participles but not derived from verbs: swashbuckling.
[Middle English, alteration (influenced by -inge, noun or gerund suff.; see -ing2) of -ende, -inde, from Old English -ende, present participle suff.]
-ing 2suff.1. a. Action, process, or art: dancing.b. An instance of an action, process, or art: a gathering.2. An action or process connected with a specified thing: berrying.3. a. Something necessary to perform an action or process: mooring.b. The result of an action or process: a drawing.c. Something connected with a specified thing or concept: siding; offing.
[Middle English, from Old English -ung, -ing.]
-ing 3suff. One having a specified quality or nature: sweeting.
[Middle English, from Old English, belonging to, descended from.]-ing suffix forming nouns 1. (Grammar) (from verbs) the action of, process of, result of, or something connected with the verb: coming; meeting; a wedding; winnings. 2. (Grammar) (from other nouns) something used in, consisting of, involving, etc: tubing; soldiering. 3. (from other parts of speech): an outing. [Old English -ing, -ung]
-ing suffix 1. (Grammar) forming the present participle of verbs: walking; believing. 2. (Grammar) forming participial adjectives: a growing boy; a sinking ship. 3. (Grammar) forming adjectives not derived from verbs: swashbuckling. [Middle English -ing, -inde, from Old English -ende]
-ing suffix forming nouns (Grammar) a person or thing having a certain quality or being of a certain kind: sweeting; whiting. [Old English -ing; related to Old Norse -ingr]-ing1 , a suffix of nouns formed from verbs, expressing the action of the verb or its result, 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). Compare -ing2. [Middle English; Old English -ing, -ung] -ing2 , a suffix forming the present participle of verbs (walking; thinking), such participles being often used as participial adjectives: warring factions. Compare -ing1. [Middle English -ing, -inge; the variant -in (usually represented in sp. as -in') continues Middle English -inde, -ende, Old English -ende] pron: The common suffix -ing2 can be pronounced in modern English as (-ɪŋ) or (-ɪn) The two pronunciations reflect the use of one nasal as against another (velar vs. alveolar) and not, as is popularly supposed, “dropping the g,” since no actual g-sound is involved. Many speakers use both (-ɪŋ) and (-ɪn) depending on speed of utterance and the relative formality of the occasion. For some educated speakers, esp. in the southern United States and Britain, (-ɪn) is the common pronunciation, while others use (-ɪŋ) virtually always. In response to correction from perceived authorities, many American speakers who would ordinarily use (-ɪn) at least some of the time make a conscious effort to say (-ɪŋ) however informal the circumstances. -ing3 , a suffix meaning “one belonging to,” “of the kind of,” “one descended from,” and sometimes having a diminutive force, formerly used in the formation of nouns: bunting; farthing; gelding; shilling; whiting. Compare -ling1. [Middle English, Old English -ing, c. Old Norse -ingr, -ungr, Gothic -ings] ThesaurusSeegerund |