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lacing up

lacing up is the present participle and gerund of lace up.

Meaning of lace up

Verb

lace up (third-person singular simple present laces up, present participle lacing up, simple past and past participle laced up)

  1. (transitive) To fasten the laces of something.
    • However, with their first genuine attack, Sunderland scored - and they did it with Tottenham needlessly down to 10 men as Gallas laced up a replacement pair of boots.2011 February 12, Oliver Brett, “Sunderland 1 - 2 Tottenham”, in BBC
  2. (transitive) To insert (film) into a projector.
    • If the film arrived with minute to go, there would still be time for the technicians to lace it up […]2015, David Lloyd, Start the Clock and Cue the Band: A Life in Television

Questions about lacing up

What is lacing up the present participle and gerund of?
Lacing up is the present participle and gerund of lace up.

Words near lacing up in the dictionary

  1. Lacinas
  2. lacinato
  3. laciness
  4. lacing
  5. lacing into
  6. lacing up
  7. lacings
  8. lacinia
  9. laciniae
  10. lacinial
  11. laciniar

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