gisting
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English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪstɪŋ
Verb
gisting
- present participle and gerund of gist
Noun
gisting (plural gistings)
- (rare, nonstandard) summary, summarization/summarisation
- 1964, Michael Arnold Williams, Researching local history: the human journey, page 64:
- Currently almost every paper seems to feel that its readers ought to be interested in the newspaper's own comments on the news, while of the news itself the reader would want merely some gistings or highlights […]
Dutch
Etymology
From gisten (“to ferment”) + -ing.
Pronunciation
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Noun
gisting f (plural gistingen)
Icelandic
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
gisting f (genitive singular gistingar, nominative plural gistingar)
- night's lodging
Declension
Declension of gisting (feminine)
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | gisting | gistingin | gistingar | gistingarnar |
| accusative | gistingu | gistinguna | gistingar | gistingarnar |
| dative | gistingu | gistingunni | gistingum | gistingunum |
| genitive | gistingar | gistingarinnar | gistinga | gistinganna |
Derived terms
- biðjast gistingar (“to ask to stay for the night; to ask for a bed for the night”)