characterizing
- 1Present participle and gerund of characterize.
The author keeps characterizing the village as sleepy and unchanging.
Characterizing a dataset accurately takes patience and careful judgment.
Note
One spelling carries all three meanings of the verb, and the surrounding words decide which is meant. Followed by an object and as, it means depicting someone or something a certain way, often unfavorably: characterizing critics as cranks. Placed after a noun, it means being typical of: the hills characterizing the region. As a gerund it often names the work of measuring: characterizing a sample. Every use takes a direct object.
characterizing is a form of characterize
characterize, verb: To depict or describe someone or something in a particular way, often negatively. Full entry
- Forms
- characterizecharacterizes he/she/itcharacterizing -ing formcharacterized past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- characterize → characterizing: drop the e, add -ing
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