"countersurf" meaning in English

See countersurf in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: countersurfs [present, singular, third-person], countersurfing [participle, present], countersurfed [participle, past], countersurfed [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} countersurf (third-person singular simple present countersurfs, present participle countersurfing, simple past and past participle countersurfed)
  1. Alternative form of counter surf Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: counter surf
    Sense id: en-countersurf-en-verb-HyEY7I7L Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for countersurf meaning in English (1.8kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "countersurfs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "countersurfing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "countersurfed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "countersurfed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "countersurf (third-person singular simple present countersurfs, present participle countersurfing, simple past and past participle countersurfed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "counter surf"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Patty Dobbs Gross, The Golden Bridge",
          "text": "Keep all food items off the kitchen countertops from the very beginning, so your puppy won't want to \"countersurf.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Pat Miller, Do Over Dogs",
          "text": "Wait untilthe dog is otherwise engaged—sniffing the floor, looking out a window, countersurfing on a table—and not near a human.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Dog Fancy Magazine, Labrador Retriever, page 138",
          "text": "Behaviors that respond well to the three-step process are those where the dog does something in order to get good stuff. He jumps up to get attention. He countersurfs because he finds good stuff on counters.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Susan Orlean, Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend, page 282",
          "text": "“Hey,” she scolded, “quit your countersurfing.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of counter surf"
      ],
      "id": "en-countersurf-en-verb-HyEY7I7L",
      "links": [
        [
          "counter surf",
          "counter surf#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "countersurf"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "countersurfs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "countersurfing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "countersurfed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "countersurfed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "countersurf (third-person singular simple present countersurfs, present participle countersurfing, simple past and past participle countersurfed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "counter surf"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Patty Dobbs Gross, The Golden Bridge",
          "text": "Keep all food items off the kitchen countertops from the very beginning, so your puppy won't want to \"countersurf.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Pat Miller, Do Over Dogs",
          "text": "Wait untilthe dog is otherwise engaged—sniffing the floor, looking out a window, countersurfing on a table—and not near a human.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Dog Fancy Magazine, Labrador Retriever, page 138",
          "text": "Behaviors that respond well to the three-step process are those where the dog does something in order to get good stuff. He jumps up to get attention. He countersurfs because he finds good stuff on counters.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Susan Orlean, Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend, page 282",
          "text": "“Hey,” she scolded, “quit your countersurfing.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of counter surf"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "counter surf",
          "counter surf#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "countersurf"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.