Talk:exploding

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exploding

Noun sense, meaning “explosion”. This is almost certainly real, but it’s non-trivial to find. Theknightwho (talk) 17:40, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

Searching for the plural, I can find examples of exploding as the ... verbal noun, or whatever we'd like to call it, of explode ... but the finer details of whether this is best defined as just "explosion" or as e.g. {{n-g|verbal noun of "to explode"}} or something else are less obvious. - -sche (discuss) 02:46, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

This has the makings of elimination of the hoped-for benefits of the -ing-forms concept. The idea is that all -ing-forms can be noun-like or adjective-like in their functioning, but that it isn't worth a definition unless the -ing-form has come to assume new meaning. Eg. makings and meaning have new meaning, but functioning not so much (perhaps the euphemism). One can readily find examples of virtually any -ing-form meeting all the grammatical criteria for adjective and noun. I would say it is part of the grammar of English. It is less common that there is actual new meaning, eg, the difference between making and makings or meaning (-ing-form) and meaning (noun). DCDuring (talk) 13:33, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

cited Kiwima (talk) 00:08, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

@Kiwima Thanks - I've also added blowing up (noun), given it's used in one of the cites (and is probably more common, actually). Theknightwho (talk) 00:44, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

RFV-passed; any tweaking of the definition can occur outside RFV, I think; this can be archived soon. - -sche (discuss) 01:33, 21 March 2024 (UTC)