documenting
- 1Present participle of document.
Researchers are documenting the steady decline of coral reefs.
Documenting the experiment carefully prevented later disputes about the results.
Note
The -ing form does two grammatical jobs. It builds the progressive (they are documenting the damage), and it heads a noun phrase as a gerund (documenting every step takes time). In both roles it can carry either meaning of the verb: setting something down in records, or supplying the papers that back a claim. The object usually tells you which. An event or change is recorded, while a case or application is furnished with proof.
documenting is a form of document
document, verb: To make a record of something, in writing, photographs, video, or another form. Full entry
- Forms
- documentdocuments he/she/itdocumenting -ing formdocumented past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- document → documenting: add -ing
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