gisting
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɪstɪŋ
Verb edit
gisting
- present participle and gerund of gist
Noun edit
gisting (plural gistings)
- (rare, nonstandard) summary, summarization/summarisation
- 1964, Michael Arnold Williams, Researching local history: the human journey, page 64:
- Currently almost every paper seems to feel that its readers ought to be interested in the newspaper's own comments on the news, while of the news itself the reader would want merely some gistings or highlights […]
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From gisten (“to ferment”) + -ing.
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
gisting f (plural gistingen)
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gisting f (genitive singular gistingar, nominative plural gistingar)
- night's lodging
Declension edit
declension of gisting
f-s1 | singular | plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | gisting | gistingin | gistingar | gistingarnar |
accusative | gistingu | gistinguna | gistingar | gistingarnar |
dative | gistingu | gistingunni | gistingum | gistingunum |
genitive | gistingar | gistingarinnar | gistinga | gistinganna |
Derived terms edit
- biðjast gistingar (“to ask to stay for the night; to ask for a bed for the night”)