See skirting on Wiktionary
Download JSON data for skirting meaning in All languages combined (3.5kB)
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "skirting",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "33 15 22 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "31 19 20 29",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "skirt"
}
],
"glosses": [
"present participle and gerund of skirt"
],
"id": "en-skirting-en-verb-P0IXPfn6",
"links": [
[
"skirt",
"skirt#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"gerund",
"participle",
"present"
]
}
],
"word": "skirting"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "skirtings",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "skirting (countable and uncountable, plural skirtings)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "33 15 22 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "31 19 20 29",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 36",
"text": "The stateroom walls are veneered with finely figured English chestnut with the skirting and mouldings in English walnut.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Skirting boards collectively."
],
"id": "en-skirting-en-noun-IiJnIADy",
"links": [
[
"Skirting board",
"skirting board"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "33 15 22 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "31 19 20 29",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"skirts collectively; material for skirts"
],
"id": "en-skirting-en-noun-yErKMr34",
"links": [
[
"skirt",
"skirt"
],
[
"material",
"material"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "33 15 22 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "31 19 20 29",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1982, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research",
"text": "[…] superficial: many of their descriptions, together with their own candid and often amusing comments and reactions, are well worth noting and reflecting upon; their skirtings around the laws of defamation are a joy to read and a lesson to us all; […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The act of one who skirts around something, or avoids it."
],
"id": "en-skirting-en-noun-tkYj3GYb",
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"word": "skirting"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verb forms",
"English verbal nouns"
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "skirting",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "skirt"
}
],
"glosses": [
"present participle and gerund of skirt"
],
"links": [
[
"skirt",
"skirt#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"gerund",
"participle",
"present"
]
}
],
"word": "skirting"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verb forms",
"English verbal nouns"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "skirtings",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "skirting (countable and uncountable, plural skirtings)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 36",
"text": "The stateroom walls are veneered with finely figured English chestnut with the skirting and mouldings in English walnut.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Skirting boards collectively."
],
"links": [
[
"Skirting board",
"skirting board"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"skirts collectively; material for skirts"
],
"links": [
[
"skirt",
"skirt"
],
[
"material",
"material"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1982, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research",
"text": "[…] superficial: many of their descriptions, together with their own candid and often amusing comments and reactions, are well worth noting and reflecting upon; their skirtings around the laws of defamation are a joy to read and a lesson to us all; […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The act of one who skirts around something, or avoids it."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"word": "skirting"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.