different between evening vs jumping

English

Alternative forms

• ev'ning (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From Middle English evening, evenyng, from Old English ?fnung, from ?fnian < ?fen (from Proto-Germanic *?banþs), corresponding to even +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?v'n?ng, IPA^(key): /?i?vn??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ivn??/

Noun

evening (countable and uncountable, plural evenings)

1. The time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark.
2. The time of the day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight (compare afternoon); the period after the end of regular office working hours.

   • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
3. (figuratively) A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something.

4. A party or gathering held in the evening.
   • 1980, Management Services (page 50)

     A few Gorllewin Cymru/West Wales Branch members attended an evening at the Dragon Hotel, Swansea, titled Photographic Techniques in Industry.

Synonyms

• (time of day): eve, eventide, undern (UK dialect); see also Thesaurus:evening

Coordinate terms

• (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight ^{(Category: en:Times of day)}

Derived terms

Related terms

• eve
• even

Translations

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?'v?n?ng, IPA^(key): /?i?v?n??/

Verb

evening

1. present participle of even

Etymology 3

Inflected forms.

Verb

evening

1. present participle of evene

Anagrams

• eevning

Dutch

Etymology

From evenen +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?.v?.n??/
• Hyphenation: eve?ning

Noun

evening f (plural eveningen)

1. (obsolete) levelling, equalisation, act or process of making or becoming even or equal
2. (obsolete) equinox

   Synonyms: dag-en-nachtevening, equinox, nachtevening

Derived terms

• dag-en-nachtevening
• nachtevening

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??mp??/

Adjective

jumping (comparative more jumping, superlative most jumping)

1. (colloquial) Exuberantly active; in full swing.
   • 1998, Baha Men - Who Let the Dogs Out?

     When the party was nice, the party was jumpin' (Hey, Yippie, Yi, Yo)

     And everybody havin' a ball (Hah, ho, Yippie Yi Yo)

Verb

jumping

1. present participle of jump

Noun

jumping (plural jumpings)

1. The act of performing a jump.
   • 1871, John Tyndall, Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion (page 291)

     When the tuning-fork is brought over a resonant jar or bottle, the beats may be heard and the jumpings seen by a thousand people at once.

Further reading

• jumping on Wikiversity.Wikiversity

French

Etymology

from English jumping.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?œ?.pi?/

Noun

jumping m (plural jumpings)

1. show jumping (equestrian discipline)
2. (sports and physical fitness) A form of movement in which a body propels itself through the air.

Further reading

• “jumping” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).