mending
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]mending
- present participle and gerund of mend
Noun
[edit]mending (plural mendings)
- The act by which something is mended or repaired.
- 1844, Edmund Leahy, A Practical Treatise on Making and Repairing Roads, page 133:
- This road though frequently repaired had been nevertheless but little the better for the frequent mendings […]
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[edit]Verb
[edit]mending
- to hear
Indonesian
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[edit]Adverb
[edit]mending
- (colloquial) used to specify choice or preference; rather, preferably, in preference to (usually followed by daripada)
- Aku mending pilih yang ini daripada yang lainnya. ― I'd rather choose this than the others.
- (colloquial) best; to the most advantage, with the most success
- (colloquial) Used to express comparison between a situation deemed more fortunate than a worse hypothetical.
- Masih mending kamu tidak dipukuli orang itu. ― You're lucky that you weren't hit by that person instead.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “mending” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
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