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going
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??????/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??o???/, /?????/
- Hyphenation: go?ing
- Rhymes: -????
Etymology
Verb form from Middle English goinge, goynge, gayng, variants of gonde, goonde, gaand, from Old English g?nde, from Proto-Germanic *g?ndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *g?n?, *g?n? (“to go”), equivalent to go +? -ing. Cognate with West Frisian geanend (“going”), Dutch gaand (“going”), German gehend (“going”), Danish gående (“going”), Swedish gående (“going”).
Noun and adjective from Middle English going, goyng, gaing, gayng, equivalent to go +? -ing. Compare German Gehung, Old English gang (“a going”). More at gang.
Verb
going
- present participle of go
- (in combination) Attending or visiting (a stated event, place, etc.) habitually or regularly.
- theatre-going, church-going, movie-going
Translations
Noun
going (plural goings)
- A departure.
- Thy going is not lonely, with thee goes thy Husband
- The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc.
- The going was very difficult over the ice.
- Progress.
- We made good going for a while, but then we came to the price.
- (figuratively) Conditions for advancing in any way.
- Not only were the streets not paved with gold, but the going was difficult for an immigrant.
- (obsolete) pregnancy; gestation; childbearing
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Crew to this entry?)
- (in the plural) Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.
- His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
- (in the phrase "the going of") The whereabouts (of something).
- I can't find my sunglasses; you haven't seen the going of them, have you?
Translations
Adjective
going (not comparable)
- Likely to continue; viable.
- He didn't want to make an unsecured loan to the business because it didn't look like a going concern.
- Current, prevailing.
- The going rate for manual snow-shoveling is $25 an hour.
- (especially after a noun phrase with a superlative) Available.
- He has the easiest job going.
- 2013, Natalie Dormer, interview on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson:
- Craig: Did you look at Tudor life? did you do a lot of studying about that?
- Natalie: Yeah, I was really geeky about it, I read every single book that was going.
Hyponyms
Translations
See also
- going to
Anagrams
- oggin
going From the web:
- what going on
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- what going on with unemployment
- what going on today
eating
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?i?t??/
- (US) IPA(key): /?it??/, [?i???]
- Hyphenation: eat?ing
Etymology 1
Verb
eating
- present participle of eat
Adjective
eating (not comparable)
- Bred to be eaten.
- Suitable to be eaten without being cooked.
Derived terms
- eating apple
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
eating (countable and uncountable, plural eatings)
- The act of ingesting food.
- (informal, dialectal) Food; cooking, cuisine.
- The act of corroding or consuming some substance.
Synonyms
- (ingesting food): dining, consuming, consumption
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- giante, ingate, tagine, tangie, teaing
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