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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
smelling en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈsmɛlɪŋ/
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Meanings
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The act by which something is smelled.
To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]
2004, Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus, page 73:
Forms
Deriveds
smock-smelling
smelling en · VERB
Pronunciation
- /ˈsmɛlɪŋ/
- (Southern-England) audio
Meanings
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of smell
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Used in adjectival compounds.
foul-smelling (having a foul smell)
sweet-smelling (having a sweet smell)
Deriveds
smelling salts · unsmelling