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fencelike |
fencer |
fencer's mask |
fencesitter |
fencible |
fencing
| fencing mask
| fencing material
| fencing stick
| fencing sword
| fend
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fencing
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fencing has 3 senses
- fencing(n = noun.artifact) fence - a barrier that serves to enclose an area; Array has particulars: backstop, chainlink fence, hedge, hedgerow, paling, picket fence, rail fence, stone wall, wall, weir
- fencing(n = noun.substance) fencing material - material for building fences; Array is a kind of building material
- fencing(n = noun.act) Array - the art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules); Array is a kind of play, swordplay, combat, fight, fighting, scrap
is a kind of barrier
is a part of fence line
Derived form verb fence1
Derived form verb fence3
CIDE DICTIONARY
fencing, n.
- The art or practice of attack and defense with the sword, esp. with the smallsword. See Fence,
v. i. , 2. [1913 Webster] - Disputing or debating in a manner resembling the art of fencers. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The materials used for building fences. [1913 Webster]
- The act of building a fence. [1913 Webster]
- The aggregate of the fences put up for inclosure or protection; as, the fencing of a farm. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
fencing, n.
1 a set or extent of fences.
2 material for making fences.
3 the art or sport of swordplay.
1 a set or extent of fences.
2 material for making fences.
3 the art or sport of swordplay.
THESAURUS
fencing
bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, dodging, equivocation, evasion, hairsplitting, hedging, logic-chopping, nit-picking, paltering, parrying, pettifoggery, prevarication, pussyfooting, quibbling, shifting, shuffle, shuffling, sidestepping, subterfuge, suppressio veri, swordplay, tergiversation, trichoschistism, weasel wordsROGET THESAURUS
fencing
Falsehood
N falsehood, falseness, falsity, falsification, deception, untruth, guile, lying, untruth, guile, lying, misrepresentation, mendacity, perjury, false swearing, forgery, invention, fabrication, subreption, covin, perversion of truth, suppression of truth, suppressio veri, perversion, distortion, false coloring, exaggeration, prevarication, equivocation, shuffling, fencing, evasion, fraud, suggestio falsi, mystification, simulation, dissimulation, dissembling, deceit, blague, sham, pretense, pretending, malingering, lip homage, lip service, mouth honor, hollowness, mere show, mere outside, duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug, jesuitism, jesuitry, pharisaism, Machiavelism, organized hypocrisy, crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness, quackery, charlatanism, charlatanry, gammon, bun-kum, bumcombe, flam, bam, flimflam, cajolery, flattery, Judas kiss, perfidy, il volto sciolto i pensieri stretti, unfairness, artfulness, misstatement, false, deceitful, mendacious, unveracious, fraudulent, dishonest, faithless, truthless, trothless, unfair, uncandid, hollow-hearted, evasive, uningenuous, disingenuous, hollow, sincere, Parthis mendacior, forsworn, artificial, contrived, canting, hypocritical, jesuitical, pharisaical, tartuffish, Machiavelian, double, double tongued, double faced, double handed, double minded, double hearted, double dealing, Janus faced, smooth-faced, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, plausible, mealy-mouthed, affected, collusive, collusory, artful, perfidious, spurious, untrue, falsified, covinous, falsely, a la tartufe, with a double tongue, silly, blandae mendacia lingua, falsus in uno falsus in omnibus, I give him joy that's awkward at a lie, la mentira tiene las piernas cortas, O what a goodly outside falsehood hath.
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