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单词 flagging
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flaggingn.1

/ˈflaɡɪŋ/
Etymology: < flag v.1 + -ing suffix1.
The action of flag v.1
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > weakening or decline in health
failinga1382
sickeninga1382
wasting1398
downhielda1400
dissolutionc1400
debilitationa1492
defailing1502
effeeblishing1540
faintingc1540
effeeblishment1545
enervationa1575
feeblishing1574
declining1588
decay1609
flagging1611
labefaction1620
feebling1624
sinking1625
deading1645
dejection1652
fail1654
emperiment1674
decline1770
sapping1825
breakdown1858
attenuation1868
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [noun] > becoming
swooningc1290
languishingc1384
droopingc1400
fainting1601
flagging1611
sinking1625
jading1641
collapsing1855
crocking1928
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Alachissement..a flagging, or falling downe, through feeblenesse.
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) ii. vi. 102 The swelling of the Heart and the Flagging thereof.
1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. i. 36 He was inclined to regret, as a spiritual flagging, the lull which he saw.
1870 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) I. ii. v. 236 That flagging of the circulation which accompanies the decline of life.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

flaggingn.2

Etymology: < flag v.3 + -ing suffix1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈflagging.
1. The action of paving with flagstones.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > [noun] > paving > with specific material
gravelling1577
causeying1596
flagging1656
pitching1702
ruderation1730
macadamization1822
macadamizing1824
asphalting1840
blinding1843
causewaying1876
bouldering1880
metalling1885
blacktopping1947
tarmacing1975
1656 H. Webb in D. King Vale Royall ii. 209 The Flagging of the long West Ile..was this year begun by Dean Mitter.
1824 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 341 The paving and flagging of streets.
1893 Birkenhead News 9 Dec. 1/2 Tenders for the Flagging, Channelling, and Sewering of various Passages in the Borough.
2. concrete. The material used in paving; hence, the pavement. (The two first quots. are doubtful.)
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > stone as material for paving
pavement stone1382
paving stone1400
paving?1440
flagging1622
pavementing1966
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [noun] > foot(-)path > by side of street or road
plainstones1611
flanker1682
side pavement1685
footwalk1701
sideway1738
sidewalk1739
pavement1743
banquette1772
footpath1776
trottoir1789
walkway1792
parapet1795
causeway1796
flag-way1800
flags1801
pave1835
flagstone1840
flagging1851
walk1913
pedway1965
1622 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 178 For making upp a wall and flagging about the bells floore for five dayes att x d. per diem, iiij s. ij d.
1660 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 197 For setting upp the fount and flagging about itt, 8 s. 6 d.
1825 Beverley Lighting Act ii. 27 The flagging and other materials thereof to be taken up.
1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend ii. 46 He..heard Angelic feet Fall on the golden flagging of the street.
1861 J. G. Holland Lessons in Life iii. 39 Stretched at her length upon the flagging.
3. attributive, as flagging stone.
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1830 N. S. Wheaton Jrnl. 366 A vault covered with a coarse flagging stone.
1868 B. J. Lossing Hudson (new ed.) 172 Almost inexhaustible quarries of flagging stone.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

flaggingn.3

Etymology: ? < flag n.4 + -ing suffix1.
Obsolete.
? A long flowing hat-band.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > parts of headgear > [noun] > band > types of > other
cable-hatband1600
flagging1695
1695 London Gaz. No. 3045/4 His Coat whitish, with black Triming, a black Hat and Flaging.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

flaggingadj.

/ˈflaɡɪŋ/
Etymology: < flag v.1 + -ing suffix2.
That flags; hanging down, drooping; failing, languid.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective]
feeblec1400
colourlessc1425
flagging1540
pithless1555
blanched1570
toothless1592
unpointed1604
unsinewed1604
jejune1615
low-pitched1622
unsinewy?1623
macilent1624
flaccid1647
insinewy1653
unsubstanceda1658
incogent1667
pointless1673
languida1677
enervatea1704
unaccentuated1716
unnervate1725
lank1729
unforcible1754
nerveless1763
weak1771
flabby1793
slip-slop1814
tinkling1822
exsanguinea1834
twittery1840
slipshod1842
under-coloured1870
shaftless1881
thin1890
unaccented1893
wimpish1925
wimp1979
the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [adjective] > hanging down > drooping or hanging limply
droop?1507
flagging1540
sag1541
lolling1567
flaggy1576
fagged1578
flag1591
drooping1600
slouching1611
emarcid1661
flaggish1669
slouchy1693
tangly1812
sunken1823
adroop1833
saggy1853
loppy1855
floppy1858
drooped1873
flippy-floppy1905
1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. f. lviv That her brestes..be neyther to great, softe, hangynge, and flaggynge.
a1637 B. Jonson Timber 2083 in Wks. (1640) III The Language is thinne, flagging, poore, starv'd.
a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 10 Against the yard The flagging mainsaile flapt.
1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad VI. xxiii. 1039 The wounded bird..With flagging wings alighted on the mast.
1838 W. Wordsworth Sonnets x Dull, flagging notes that with each other jar.
1892 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. (new ed.) I. 189 He..had recourse to..stimulants to rouse a flagging imagination.

Derivatives

ˈflaggingly adv.
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the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily weakness > [adverb]
faintlyc1320
weakly1398
unthendelyc1440
lankly1611
flaggingly1693
strengthlessly1820
punily1827
nervelessly1836
flaccidly1847
limply1869
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. v. 54 I would come off but very faintly and flaggingly.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

> as lemmas

ˈflagging
ˈflagging n. Also attributive.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > cask-making > [noun] > specific processes
hooping1463
flagging1842
crozing1880
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > cutting flag or blade of wheat
flagging1842
1842 Guide to Trade, Cooper 73 Pulling off from the head, with the flagging iron, the stave or staves that [etc.].
1846 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 7 ii. 299 So rank will be the corn-crop there, that in spite of two or three flaggings, it is almost sure to go down and spoil.
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