See swarming in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for swarming meaning in English (2.0kB)
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "swarmings",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "swarming (plural swarmings)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"The motion of a swarm."
],
"id": "en-swarming-en-noun-XUyQECMq",
"links": [
[
"swarm",
"swarm"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Canadian English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "9 71 21",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Crime",
"orig": "en:Crime",
"parents": [
"Criminal law",
"Society",
"Law",
"All topics",
"Justice",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A crime where an unsuspecting innocent bystander is attacked by several culprits at once, with no known motive."
],
"id": "en-swarming-en-noun-Xravlndg",
"links": [
[
"crime",
"crime"
],
[
"unsuspecting",
"unsuspecting"
],
[
"innocent",
"innocent"
],
[
"bystander",
"bystander"
],
[
"attacked",
"attacked"
],
[
"culprits",
"culprits"
],
[
"motive",
"motive"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial, Canada) A crime where an unsuspecting innocent bystander is attacked by several culprits at once, with no known motive."
],
"tags": [
"Canada",
"colloquial"
]
}
],
"word": "swarming"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "swarming",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "5 39 55",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "7 40 53",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "swarm"
}
],
"glosses": [
"present participle and gerund of swarm"
],
"id": "en-swarming-en-verb-n6wA02ws",
"links": [
[
"swarm",
"swarm#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"gerund",
"participle",
"present"
]
}
],
"word": "swarming"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English verb forms",
"en:Crime"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "swarmings",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "swarming (plural swarmings)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"The motion of a swarm."
],
"links": [
[
"swarm",
"swarm"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Canadian English",
"English colloquialisms"
],
"glosses": [
"A crime where an unsuspecting innocent bystander is attacked by several culprits at once, with no known motive."
],
"links": [
[
"crime",
"crime"
],
[
"unsuspecting",
"unsuspecting"
],
[
"innocent",
"innocent"
],
[
"bystander",
"bystander"
],
[
"attacked",
"attacked"
],
[
"culprits",
"culprits"
],
[
"motive",
"motive"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial, Canada) A crime where an unsuspecting innocent bystander is attacked by several culprits at once, with no known motive."
],
"tags": [
"Canada",
"colloquial"
]
}
],
"word": "swarming"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English verb forms",
"en:Crime"
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "swarming",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "swarm"
}
],
"glosses": [
"present participle and gerund of swarm"
],
"links": [
[
"swarm",
"swarm#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"gerund",
"participle",
"present"
]
}
],
"word": "swarming"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). 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.