lancing
lancing is the present participle and gerund of lance.
Meaning of lance
Verb
lance (third-person singular simple present lances, present participle lancing, simple past and past participle lanced)
- To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
- Seiz'd the due Victim, and with Fury lanch'd Her Back1700, [John] Dryden, “Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 268
- To open with a lancet; to prick or cut open with a sharp instrument; to pierce.
- to lance a vein or an abscess
- To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.
- To steal or swipe.
- He lanced my drink and spiked it!
- To move suddenly and quickly.
Noun
lancing (plural lancings)
- The act by which something is lanced.
- Bernardo's physicians treated their lawyer-patient in the ordinary ignorant ways, with debilitating bleedings, plus helpful lancings of the abscessed boils.2011, Paul Oppenheimer, Machiavelli: A Life Beyond Ideology, page 46
Proper noun capitalized: Lancing
Lancing
- A large village in Adur district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ1804).
Forms of lancing
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Questions about lancing
- What does lancing mean?
- Lancing means the act by which something is lanced.
- What is lancing the present participle and gerund of?
- Lancing is the present participle and gerund of lance.
- What part of speech is lancing?
- Lancing can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of lancing?
- The plural of lancing is lancings.
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