bagging

Pluralbaggings

1. 1
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The act of putting things into bags or sacks.

   The bagging of the groceries took longer than usual at the busy checkout.

   Careful bagging keeps the fruit from getting crushed on the way home.

   Similarpacking, packaging

2. 2
   verb

   Present participle of bag. Use this form for an action happening now, often after 'is' or 'are'.

   She is bagging the leaves before the wind scatters them.

   The cashier is bagging my groceries right now.

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3. 3
   nouncountable or uncountable

   Cloth or other strong material used to make bags.

   The farmer wrapped the seeds in coarse bagging for storage over winter.

   They covered the crates with bagging to protect them from rain.

   Similarsacking, burlap, hessian

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4. 4
   nouncolloquialcountable or uncountable

   The hobby of trying to climb as many named mountain tops as you can.

   Like collecting stamps, but each one is a mountain top you have climbed.

   Bagging summits all over the country became his main hobby after college.

   She got into bagging mountain peaks during her vacations in the hills.

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5. 5
   noununcountable

   A way to make a computer's predictions more accurate by combining results from many models.

   Like asking many friends to guess an answer and then going with the most common one.

   Bagging helped the team build a more reliable spam filter.

   They used bagging to make the model's results steadier.

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6. 6
   nouncountable or uncountable

   Helping someone breathe by squeezing air into their lungs with a hand-held bag and mask.

   Like squeezing a balloon to push air into someone's lungs.

   Bagging the patient kept air flowing into his lungs until help arrived.

   Quick bagging by the rescuer saved the drowning swimmer.

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