different between foxhole vs ing

English

Etymology

From Middle English foxhol, from Old English foxhol, equivalent to fox +? hole.

Noun

foxhole (plural foxholes)

1. The burrow in the ground where a fox lives.
2. (military) A small pit dug into the ground as a shelter for protection against enemy fire.
   • 1962: Hoxie Neale Fairchild, Religious Trends in English Poetry: 1880–1920: Gods of a Changing Poetry (Columbia University Press), page 378:

     The statement made during the Second World War that “there are no atheists in foxholes” is absurd. Foxholes teem with atheists—who, to be sure, frequently infringe the Third Commandment in their desperation.

Synonyms

• dugout
• fighting hole
• spider hole

Translations

Derived terms

• Foxhole Circuit
• foxhole radio

Verb

foxhole (third-person singular simple present foxholes, present participle foxholing, simple past and past participle foxholed)

1. (transitive) To dig a military foxhole into, or convert into a foxhole by digging.
   • 1985, Luther H. Wolff, Forward surgeon: the diary of Luther H. Wolff, M.D. (page 70)

     Trogh and Charlie have started foxholing one corner of our tent, and I helped them a little.

   • 1988, Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall, A. L. Marshall, Ambush: The Battle of Dau Tieng (page 43)

     The line was not foxholed in. This is one weakness of the Nungs. They resent digging and so they do not carry entrenching tools into the field.

2. (transitive) To drive into a military foxhole.
   • 2015, Teri Quatman, Essential Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: An Acquired Art

     […] the vet recalled with terrible anguish a scene where he and his friend had been foxholed several dozen yards apart, with a small group of enemy soldiers (Viet Cong) coming toward them over the crest of a hill.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ing, ynge, enge, from Old English ing, *eng (“a meadow; ing”), from Proto-Germanic *angij? (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?énkos (“a bend; curve; bowl; hollow; dell; glen”), from *h?énk- (“to bend; curve; bow”). Cognate with Scots eng (“ing; meadow”), Dutch eng (“pasture; farmland”), Danish eng (“meadow”), Swedish äng (“meadow; field”), Norwegian eng (“meadow”), Faroese ong (“grassland; meadow; pasture”), Icelandic eng (“a meadow”), Icelandic engi (“a meadow; meadowland”).

Noun

ing (plural ings)

1. (now only in dialects) A meadow, especially a low meadow near a river; water meadow.
   • 1773, Journals of the House of Commons:

     Bill for dividing and inclosing certain open common fields, ings, common pastures, and other commonable lands.

   • 1804, Marshall (William), On the Landed Property of England, possibly quoting an earlier work:

     [There] lay an extent of meadow grounds, in ings, to afford a supply of hay.

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Etymology 2

From Pitman em and en, which it is related to phonetically and graphically, and the sound it represents. The change in vowel probably reflects the familiar suffix -ing.

Noun

ing (plural ings)

1. The letter for the ng sound /?/ in Pitman shorthand.

Related terms

• eng, the name of the IPA letter for this sound

Anagrams

• GNI, IGN, NGI, gin, nig

Chinese

Etymology

From English -ing.

Pronunciation

Adverb

ing

1. (slang) in the process of; currently

References

• http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=11204

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?i??]
• Hyphenation: ing
• Rhymes: -i??

Etymology 1

Of uncertain origin. Perhaps borrowed from an Iranian language.

Alternative forms

• üng, ümög, ümeg, imeg, imég (all are dialectal)

Noun

ing (plural ingek)

1. shirt

Declension

Derived terms

• hálóing
• pólóing

Etymology 2

An earlier form of the verb inog (“to wobble”).

Verb

ing

2. (intransitive) to wobble
3. (intransitive) to swing

Conjugation

or

Synonyms

• (wobble): inog

Derived terms

• ingat
• ingatlan

(With verbal prefixes):

References

Further reading

• (shirt): ing in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (to wobble): ing in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Javanese

Preposition

ing

1. in
2. on
3. at

Jirajara

Noun

ing

1. water

References

• Luis Oramas, Materiales para el estudio de los dialectos Ayamán, Gayón, Jirajara, Ajagua (1916)

Khumi Chin

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *?im, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kim (“house, womb”). Cognate to Burmese ???? (im) and S'gaw Karen ???? (heè).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Noun

ing

1. house

Derived terms

References

• R. Shafer (1944) , “Khimi Grammar and Vocabulary”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, volume 11, issue 2, page 418
• K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin?^[1], Payap University, page 46

Old English

Etymology

Apparently borrowed from Old Norse eng or possibly inherited directly from Proto-Germanic *angij?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in?/, [i??]

Noun

ing f (nominative plural inga or inge)

1. meadow, water meadow, ing

Declension

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?i?]

Noun

ing

1. tooth

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh, page 29

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English ink.

Noun

ing

1. ink

Yola

Preposition

ing

1. Alternative form of eee