different between ongoing vs during

English

Etymology

From on +? going, related to the phrasal verb go on.

Pronunciation

Adjective

ongoing (not comparable)

1. Continuing, permanent, lasting.
2. Presently or currently happening; being in progress.
   • 2017 September 27, David Browne, "Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91," Rolling Stone

     The iconic "Playboy Interview" feature launched in 1962 with future Roots author Alex Haley interviewing Miles Davis (Hefner was a huge jazz aficionado and later founded the Playboy Jazz Festival) and would eventually feature many luminaries, setting the stage for the ongoing joke, "We really read Playboy for the articles."

Translations

Noun

ongoing (plural ongoings)

1. Something that is going on; a happening.
   • 1961, Floyd H. Allport, Theories of perception and the concept of structure

     We shall not be concerned here with the specific electrical or chemical changes that take place, but only with the fact of continuous ongoings as one of the elements for building a format of dynamic structure.

Translations

Verb

ongoing

1. (rare) present participle of ongo

Anagrams

• going on

English

Alternative forms

• dureing (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English during, durynge, durinde, durand, durende, present participle of duren (“to last”), equivalent to dure +? -ing. Compare Dutch gedurende (“during”). More at dure.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /?dj?????/, /-?????/
• (Received Pronunciation, UK, Canada, Ireland, General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?d??????/, /-?????/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d????/, /?d???/
• Rhymes: -?????
• Hyphenation: dur?ing

Preposition

during

1. For all of a given time interval.
   • 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

     During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]
2. At any time or period within a given time interval.

Related terms

• durable
• duration
• endure

Translations

Verb

during

1. present participle of dure

Anagrams

• Durgin, ungird