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ALL meanings of -ing

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  • suffix -ing Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns, from verbs. 0
  • suffix -ing Used to form uncountable nouns from various parts of speech denoting materials or systems of objects considered collectively. 0
  • suffix -ing Used to form present participles of verbs. 0
  • suffix -ing Forming derivative nouns (originally masculine), with the sense ‘son of, belonging to’, as patronymics or diminutives. No longer productive in either sense. 0
  • suffix -ing Having a specifed quality, characteristic, or nature; of the kind of. 0
  • suffix -ing -ing is added to verbs to form present participles. Present participles are used with auxiliary verbs to make continuous tenses. They are also used like adjectives, describing a person or thing as doing something. 0
  • suffix -ing -ing is added to verbs to form uncount nouns referring to activities. 0
  • suffix forming noun -ing the action of, process of, result of, or something connected with the verb 0
  • suffix forming noun -ing something used in, consisting of, involving, etc 0
  • suffix forming noun -ing (from other parts of speech) 0
  • suffix -ing forming the present participle of verbs 0
  • suffix -ing forming participial adjectives 0
  • suffix -ing forming adjectives not derived from verbs 0
  • suffix forming noun -ing a person or thing having a certain quality or being of a certain kind 0
  • noun -ing the act or an instance of (a specified verb) 0
  • noun -ing something produced by the action of (a specified verb) 0
  • noun -ing something that does the action of (a specified verb) 0
  • noun -ing material used for (a specified thing) 0
  • noun -ing an act or process involving (a specified thing) 0
  • noun -ing a person or thing of a (specified) kind or origin 0
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