databasing
- 1Present participle of database.
Volunteers are databasing decades of museum specimens for online access.
He kept databasing the survey results late into the night.
Note
Here a noun has become a verb, and its -ing form takes on the work of a noun again. The verb database is transitive, so in progressive use the form keeps a direct object: databasing specimens, databasing results. As a gerund it names the activity itself and often takes of: the databasing of the collection. The final e of database drops before -ing, as in typing.
Databasing the archive took three years.
The grant pays for the databasing of local parish records.
databasing is a form of database
database, verb: To enter data into a database so that it is stored in structured form. Full entry
- Spelling
- database → databasing: drop the e, add -ing
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