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vanning

vanning is the present participle and gerund of van.

Meaning of van

Verb (1)

van (third-person singular simple present vans, present participle vanning, simple past and past participle vanned)

  1. (transitive) To transport in a van or similar vehicle (especially of horses).
    • I have to have a license to own them, a license to train them, my jockey has to have a license to ride them, the van company must have a license to van them, and the black shoe man must have a license to shoe them.1966, United States Congress, Senate, Committee on Commerce, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
  2. (Internet) Of law enforcement: to arrest (not necessarily in a van; derived from party van).
    • One Anon explained the reason for this, saying: "As for the domains, they were transferred to Ryan after some of us got vanned so he can keep the network up. What he did certainly wasn't the plan." (Getting "vanned" refers to getting picked up by the police.)2011, The hackers hacked: main Anonymous IRC servers invaded

Verb (2)

van (third-person singular simple present vans, present participle vanning, simple past and past participle vanned)

  1. To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.

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Noun

vanning (countable and uncountable, plural vannings)

  1. A process by which ores are washed on a shovel, or in a vanner.

Forms of vanning

pluralvannings

Questions about vanning

What does vanning mean?
Vanning means a process by which ores are washed on a shovel, or in a vanner.
What is vanning the present participle and gerund of?
Vanning is the present participle and gerund of van.
What part of speech is vanning?
Vanning is a noun.
What is the plural of vanning?
The plural of vanning is vannings.

Words near vanning in the dictionary

  1. Vannice
  2. Vannices
  3. Vannicola
  4. Vannicolas
  5. Vannie
  6. vanning
  7. vannings
  8. Vannorman
  9. Vannormans
  10. Vannostrand
  11. Vannostrands

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vanning (page history and authors); van (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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