"titling" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈtaɪtl̩ɪŋ/, /ˈtaɪtlɪŋ/ Forms: titlings [plural]
Etymology: See title. Etymology templates: {{m|en|title}} title Head templates: {{en-noun}} titling (plural titlings)
  1. The act of giving something a title, or of impressing the title on the back of a book.
    Sense id: en-titling-en-noun-mQ~z7E30
  2. (law) A legal right to a property; holding a title. Categories (topical): Law
    Sense id: en-titling-en-noun-m-rJFOyI Topics: law
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ˈtɪtlɪŋ/ Forms: titlings [plural]
Etymology: Uncertain. Superficially tit (“a small bird”) + -ling (“small”). Attested from the 16th century. Probably from Icelandic titlingr (“tit sparrow”), Old Norse titlingr (“sparrow”). Compare Old Norse tittr (“titmouse”). Also see Middle English titmose (“titmouse”). Etymology templates: {{unc|en}} Uncertain, {{affix|en|tit#Etymology 3|-ling|t1=a small bird|t2=small}} tit (“a small bird”) + -ling (“small”), {{der|en|is|titlingr||tit sparrow}} Icelandic titlingr (“tit sparrow”), {{cog|non|titlingr||sparrow}} Old Norse titlingr (“sparrow”), {{cog|non|tittr||titmouse}} Old Norse tittr (“titmouse”), {{cog|enm|titmose||titmouse}} Middle English titmose (“titmouse”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} titling (plural titlings)
  1. The hedge sparrow, dunnock, titlene, Prunella modularis. Categories (lifeform): Accentors, Pipits and wagtails
    Sense id: en-titling-en-noun-gjlJRNMB Disambiguation of Accentors: 6 2 34 32 3 24 Disambiguation of Pipits and wagtails: 6 2 30 36 3 23 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, English links with manual fragments, English terms suffixed with -ling Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 1 32 33 2 25 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 7 1 33 34 2 23 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 5 1 36 38 2 18 Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 10 3 29 29 5 24 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ling: 8 2 28 29 8 25
  2. The meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis). Categories (lifeform): Accentors, Pipits and wagtails
    Sense id: en-titling-en-noun-NQekbrz1 Disambiguation of Accentors: 6 2 34 32 3 24 Disambiguation of Pipits and wagtails: 6 2 30 36 3 23 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, English links with manual fragments, English terms suffixed with -ling Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 1 32 33 2 25 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 7 1 33 34 2 23 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 5 1 36 38 2 18 Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 10 3 29 29 5 24 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ling: 8 2 28 29 8 25
  3. (obsolete, in customhouses) Stockfish. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-titling-en-noun-obhka-Pk
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: sea titling
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /ˈtaɪtl̩ɪŋ/, /ˈtaɪtlɪŋ/
Etymology: See title. Etymology templates: {{m|en|title}} title Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} titling
  1. present participle and gerund of title Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: title Categories (lifeform): Accentors, Pipits and wagtails
    Sense id: en-titling-en-verb-4zJTO2Xg Disambiguation of Accentors: 6 2 34 32 3 24 Disambiguation of Pipits and wagtails: 6 2 30 36 3 23 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, English links with manual fragments, English terms suffixed with -ling Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 1 32 33 2 25 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 7 1 33 34 2 23 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 5 1 36 38 2 18 Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 10 3 29 29 5 24 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ling: 8 2 28 29 8 25
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1839, Archibald Swinton, Report of the Trial of Alexander Humphreys Or Alexander, Claiming the Title Earl of Stirling, Before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, for the Crime of Forgery, page 211",
          "text": "Then, gentlemen, not only is this a forgery, but it is a modern forgery. It is a forgery since 1806—since the date of the rebinding of the Record by Mr Thompson, when the new mode of titling was introduced.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1974, Philip Smith, New Directions in Bookbinding, page 135",
          "text": "The leather for the spine strip was onlaid with the titling and other linking features separately from the covers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of giving something a title, or of impressing the title on the back of a book."
      ],
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        [
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          "title"
        ],
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          "impress",
          "impress"
        ],
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          "book",
          "book"
        ]
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
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        {
          "ref": "1888, A Handbook for Travelers in Surrey, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight, page 217",
          "text": "People took possession of the tenantless cottages to which their only titling is the holding of the key : a few of these still remain.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, Diana Hunt, The Social and Economic Impacts of Individual Land Titling in Mbeere, Eastern Kenya, page 12",
          "text": "Where shifting cultivation or bush fallowing are widely practised, it is unlikely that strong pressure for titling will emerge from within the area concerned. The primary momentum for titling will probably be exogenously generated,",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A legal right to a property; holding a title."
      ],
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          "law#English"
        ],
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          "right",
          "right"
        ],
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          "property",
          "property"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(law) A legal right to a property; holding a title."
      ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtaɪtl̩ɪŋ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtaɪtlɪŋ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "titling"
}

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          "ref": "1601, Pliny the Elder, translated by Philemon Holland, The Historie of the World, Book X",
          "text": "The Titling therefore that sitteth, being thus deceived, hatcheth the egge and bringeth up the chicke of another bird.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1821, George Graves, British Ornithology, SYLVIA MODULARIS, page 540",
          "text": "[…]its winter note resembles the word, Tit, Tit, often repeated, which has given it the name of Titling in many parts of the country.",
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        "The hedge sparrow, dunnock, titlene, Prunella modularis."
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          "ref": "1833, “Eagle shooting in the Alps”, in The Sportsman’s Cabinet, and Town and Country Magazine, page 126",
          "text": "In the North this is so commonly observed, that the cuckoo is popularly believed to be always attended by the titling or pippet (Anthus pratensis, Bechstein), which it is further imagined, has been its step-mother and nurse from the egg;",
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        "The meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis)."
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          "ref": "1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy",
          "text": "[…]Stock-fish—Titling—Cropling—Lub-fish. You should have noted that they are all, nevertheless, to be entered as titlings. How many inches long is a titling?",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Stockfish."
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        "(obsolete, in customhouses) Stockfish."
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɪtlɪŋ/"
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