# bearding

Pronunciation: say "BEERD-ing" US /ˈbɪɹdɪŋ/, UK /ˈbɪədɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle and gerund of beard. — present participle and gerund of beard
   - Simple: Present participle and gerund of beard. Use it after is or was, or as a noun for the action.
   - _Bearding the committee at its own meeting took more nerve than she had expected._
   - _Thousands of bees were bearding across the front of the hive on the hottest afternoon of the summer._

## Noun

2. An unwanted video artifact in which darker parts of the signal bleed horizontally into brighter parts.
   - Simple: A problem on a TV picture where dark parts spread sideways into the bright parts.
   - _Heavy bearding smeared the dark edge of the anchor's suit into the bright studio wall behind him._
   - _The engineer traced the bearding to a faulty cable between the camera and the control room._

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