fringing
fringing is the present participle and gerund of fringe.
Noun
fringing (countable and uncountable, plural fringings)
- A fringe or border.
- The appearance of false colours in an image as the result of poor registration of component monochrome images.
- Any anomalous electric or magnetic effect at the edges of a region.
Meaning of fringe
Verb
fringe (third-person singular simple present fringes, present participle fringing, simple past and past participle fringed)
- To decorate with fringe.
- [Y]onder cloud / That rises upward always higher, / And onward drags a labouring breast, / And topples round the dreary west, / A looming bastion fringed with fire.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 24
- To serve as a fringe; to border.
- Purple bonnets fringed soft, pink, querulous faces on pillows in bath chairs.1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in Jacob's Room
Adjective
fringing (not comparable)
- That fringes.
Forms of fringing
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Words formed from fringing
Phrases with fringing
Questions about fringing
- What does fringing mean?
- Fringing means a fringe or border.
- What is fringing the present participle and gerund of?
- Fringing is the present participle and gerund of fringe.
- What part of speech is fringing?
- Fringing can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of fringing?
- The plural of fringing is fringings.
Words near fringing in the dictionary
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