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-ing | foxhole |

As a suffix -ing

is used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns, from verbs or -ing can be used to form present participles of verbs or -ing can be forming derivative nouns (originally masculine), with the sense ‘son of, belonging to’, as patronymics or diminutives.

As a noun foxhole is

(military) a small pit dug into the ground as a shelter for protection against enemy fire.

-ing

English

(wikipedia -ing)

Alternative forms

* -in’, -in (colloquial)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), .

Suffix

  • Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns, from verbs.
    • the making of the film
  • Used to form uncountable nouns from various parts of speech denoting materials or systems of objects considered collectively.
    • Roofing is a material that covers a roof.
    Piping is a system of pipes considered collectively.
  • Used to form nouns of the action or the procedure of a verb; usually identical with meaning 1. in the English language or expressed with -tion instead
    • The forging of the sword took hours. - where forging denotes a planned procedure of work rather than a specific physical action
    Synonyms
    * (activity) -ery * (collection) -age, -ery
    Derived terms
    (collection) * batting * bunting * piping * roofing * siding * ticking * wadding

    See also

    * (collection) work

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), (m), alteration of earlier (m), (m), (m) (see (l)), from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Suffix

  • Used to form present participles of verbs.
    • Rolling stones gather no moss.
    You are making a mess.
  • * Brian Hall, “Beej's Guide to Network Programming”, “Using Internet Sockets”
    • If you are connect()ing to a remote machineyou can simply call connect(), it'll check to see if the socket is unworthy, and will bind() it to an unused local port if necessary.
    Derived terms
    *

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Suffix

    (en-suffix)
  • Forming derivative nouns (originally masculine), with the sense ‘son of, belonging to’, as patronymics or diminutives. No longer productive in either sense.
    • Browning'', ''Channing'', ''Ewing
    bunting
    shilling
    farthing
  • Having a specifed quality, characteristic, or nature; of the kind of
    • sweeting
    whiting
    gelding
    Derived terms
    * atheling * gelding

    See also

    * -ed

    References

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    foxhole

    English

    (wikipedia foxhole)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The burrow in the ground where a fox lives.
  • (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