"dusting" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈdʌstɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-dusting.wav [Southern-England] Forms: dustings [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌstɪŋ Head templates: {{en-noun}} dusting (plural dustings)
  1. A light snowfall. Categories (topical): Snow
    Sense id: en-dusting-en-noun-wUM3tYOp Disambiguation of Snow: 62 3 5 3 7 20
  2. A light covering of something. Translations (light covering): saupoudrage (French), Überpuderung [feminine] (German), Puderschicht [feminine] (German), spolverata [feminine] (Italian)
    Sense id: en-dusting-en-noun-wiMuR4b3 Disambiguation of 'light covering': 13 75 4 6 3
  3. The act of removing dust from the furniture, as a household chore. Translations (removing dust): dépoussiérage (French), Staubwischen [neuter] (German), Entstauben [neuter] (German), Staubentfernung [feminine] (German)
    Sense id: en-dusting-en-noun-C-t91-bi Disambiguation of 'removing dust': 2 4 85 7 3
  4. (colloquial) A beating. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-dusting-en-noun-fqDUGU1O
  5. A maintenance or comfort behaviour in which a bird flushes fine dirt through the feathers; dust-bathing.
    Sense id: en-dusting-en-noun-CAhFXg42
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: angel dusting, crop-dusting

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈdʌstɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-dusting.wav [Southern-England]
Rhymes: -ʌstɪŋ Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} dusting
  1. present participle and gerund of dust Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: dust
    Sense id: en-dusting-en-verb-IUcFQKKk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 2 7 3 27 58 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 4 3 10 3 29 51 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 4 3 11 3 27 52

Inflected forms

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