tearing

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛə.ɹɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛɹ.ɪŋ/

  • Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ

Verb

tearing

1. present participle and gerund of tear

Adjective

tearing

1. (colloquial) enormous; of great size or impact

   a tearing great giant of a man

2. (colloquial) very hasty

   a tearing hurry

   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     The gallant young Indian dandies at home on furlough—immense dandies these—chained and moustached—driving in tearing cabs […]

Noun

tearing (usually uncountable, plural tearings)

1. The act by which something is torn; a laceration.
2. (computer graphics) Distortion of an animated display when the contents of the framebuffer are rendered while it contains portions of two or more frames.
   • 2003, David P. Luebke, Level of detail for 3D graphics, page 303:

     Even in this case, tearing still results if the swap occurs in the middle of a refresh cycle.

Derived terms

• display tearing
• hot tearing
• screen tearing

 

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɪə.ɹɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɪɹ.ɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪəɹɪŋ

Noun

tearing (uncountable)

1. (medicine) continuous shedding of tears; epiphora

Related terms

tear_up#Etymology_2

Anagrams

• Geraint, Granite, Tangier, angrite, granite, ingrate, tangier