fringing

Pluralfringings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of fringe. Use it after is or was, or as a noun for the action.

   Tall trees were fringing the lake on every side.

   Grandma spent the evening fringing the ends of a new scarf.

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2. 2
   nouncountable or uncountable

   A fringe or border along the edge of something.

   The curtains had a gold fringing along the bottom.

   A fringing of tall grass grew around the pond.

   Similaredging, border, trim

3. 3
   adjective

   Making a border around the edge of something.

   The fringing trees hid the house from the road.

   Birds nest in the fringing reeds along the river.

   Similarbordering, surrounding

4. 4
   noununcountable

   Wrong colors that show up in a picture when its single-color layers do not line up.

   The old photo had red and blue fringing because the colors were printed out of line.

   The printer was badly set up, so every page came out with colored fringing.

5. 5
   noununcountable

   An odd electric or magnetic effect at the edges of an area.

   Near the ends of the plates, fringing makes the electric field bend outward.

   The engineer made the gap in the magnet smaller to cut down the fringing there.

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