failing
See also: Failing
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
failing
- present participle and gerund of fail
- 1951 January, H. A. Vallance, “Kyle of Lochalsh Revisited”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
- As we breasted the first summit, the precipitous mass of the Raven's Rock, towering some 250 ft. above the railway, looked grim and forbidding in the failing light, and distant Ben Wyves was shrouded in mist.
Noun edit
failing (plural failings)
- weakness; defect
- His worst failing is his temper.
- 2023 October 18, “Network News: Carmont: NR pays nearly £1m in out-of-court settlements”, in RAIL, number 994, page 15:
- At the High Court in Aberdeen in September, NR pleaded guilty to a series of failings, including failing to tell the driver that it was unsafe to drive the train at the 75mph line speed.
Translations edit
defect
Preposition edit
failing
- If what follows is not possible; without.
- A large proportion of the females employed in other firms are said to have signified their intention of going on strike, failing a settlement.
Translations edit
if not possible
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References edit
- “failing”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.