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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
Madhur Bhandarkar

Meaning of "lingering" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LINGERING

lingering  [ˈlɪŋɡərɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LINGERING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Lingering is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES LINGERING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of lingering in the English dictionary

The definition of lingering in the dictionary is that continues to exist for a long time, often much longer than expected. Other definition of lingering is that takes a long time to come to an end.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LINGERING


catering
ˈkeɪtərɪŋ
considering
kənˈsɪdərɪŋ
during
ˈdjʊərɪŋ
engineering
ˌɛndʒɪˈnɪərɪŋ
fellmongering
ˈfelˌmʌŋɡərɪŋ
fingering
ˈfɪŋɡərɪŋ
manufacturing
ˌmænjʊˈfæktʃərɪŋ
mongering
ˈmʌŋɡərɪŋ
monitoring
ˈmɒnɪtərɪŋ
offering
ˈɒfərɪŋ
rumor-mongering
ˈruːməˌmʌŋɡərɪŋ
rumour-mongering
ˈruːməˌmʌŋɡərɪŋ
scaremongering
ˈskɛəmʌŋɡərɪŋ
sniggering
ˈsnɪɡərɪŋ
staggering
ˈstæɡərɪŋ
sugaring
ˈʃʊɡərɪŋ
swaggering
ˈswæɡərɪŋ
triggering
ˈtrɪɡərɪŋ
warmongering
ˈwɔːmʌŋɡərɪŋ
wearing
ˈwɛərɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LINGERING

ling.
linga
Lingala
lingam
Lingayen Gulf
lingcod
lingel
linger
lingerer
lingerie
lingeringly
lingo
lingonberry
lingot
lingster
lingua
lingua franca
linguae
linguae francae
lingual

WORDS THAT END LIKE LINGERING

bring
civil engineering
covering
electrical engineering
empowering
flattering
flowering
gathering
hovering
lettering
lowering
mechanical engineering
ordering
pioneering
recovering
rendering
steering
suffering
wandering
watering
wondering

Synonyms and antonyms of lingering in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «LINGERING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «lingering» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of lingering

Translation of «lingering» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LINGERING

Find out the translation of lingering to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of lingering from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «lingering» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

缠绵
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

persistente
570 millions of speakers

English

lingering
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सुस्त
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

العالقة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

задерживаясь
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

persistente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দীর্ঘস্থায়ী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

persistant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berlarutan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

anhalt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

残る
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

느린
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lingering
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kéo dài
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நீடித்த
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रेंगाळणारा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kalıcı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

persistente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ociąganie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

затримуючись
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

persistent
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παρατεταμένη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

slepende
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dröjande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dvelende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lingering

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LINGERING»

The term «lingering» is quite widely used and occupies the 26.906 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LINGERING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about lingering

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10 QUOTES WITH «LINGERING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word lingering.
1
Madhur Bhandarkar
I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
2
Georg Buchner
The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.
3
Hoagy Carmichael
The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you.
4
Natalie Coughlin
You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in.
5
Marian Wright Edelman
So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.
6
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism.
7
George Etherege
When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.
8
Edward Forbes
As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished , or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence.
9
Roland Gift
It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light.
10
Peter Hammill
More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work - thanks, I suppose, to their parents' lingering vinyl collections.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LINGERING»

Discover the use of lingering in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lingering and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Great Plains: America's Lingering Wild
Presents a pictorial history of the Great Plains region of the United States and Canada, describing how the natural landscape changed with the settling and modernization of the American prairie.
Michael Forsberg, Dan O'Brien, 2009
2
The Lingering Conflict: Israel, the Arabs, and the Middle ...
"A detailed history and analysis of Arab-Israeli relations and the conflict between two peoples claiming the same land, exploring through firsthand experience how these relations have been shaped over the years and assessing the prospects ...
‎2013
3
40 Lingering Questions about the 9/11 Attacks
This is not a "9/11 Truther" conspiracy book, but instead a sober, fact-based assessment of how little we really know about how the 9/11 attacks were planned and carried out. . . . . and how unprepared we are to prevent future terrorist ...
Harry Helms, 2008
4
The Long, Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race, and Law in the ...
Robert J. Cottrol takes the reader on a journey from the origins of New World slavery in colonial Latin America to current debates and litigation over affirmative action in Brazil and the United States, as well as contemporary struggles ...
Robert J. Cottrol, 2013
5
Lingering Fever: A World War II Nurse's Memoir
Based, in part, on letters she wrote to her parents, this is the poignant story of one nurse's experience in World War II and how her service changed her life forever.
LaVonne Telshaw Camp, 1997
6
Lingering: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Familiar Quotations LingeringThe purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or ...
‎2008
7
Lingering Twilight
This is a book of poetry and a collection of photographs. Spread across every page of this book are carefully taken photographs from all over the world by Arunangshu Das.
Ananya & Arunangshu Das, 2007
8
The Lingering Sensation
This is a book of poetry for everyone. It was written with the belief that at some point everyone will need someone to listen to or hear them. Maybe with this they will keep believing someone will.
Laniya Lumpkin, 2010
9
The Lingering Dead
" --Kat Richardson "Bloody, delicious, twisted." --Lilith Saintcrow, New York Times bestselling author of the Jill Kismet, Hunter series "Duncan's deftly subtle debut creeps up on you like a ghost in the night.
J.N. Duncan, 2012
10
On Lingering and Being Last: Race and Sovereignty in the New ...
In 'On Lingering and Being Last', Jonathan Elmer argues that the logic of sovereignty that emerged in early modern Europe and that limits our thinking today must be understood as a fundamentally racialized logic, first visible in the New ...
Jonathan Elmer, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LINGERING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term lingering is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Mark Shields: Scott Walker Has a 'Lingering' Resemblance to Sarah …
The problem is that there's a lingering sort of “I can see Alaska from my front porch” of Governor Palin with him. He said, for example, that, ... «NewsBusters, Jul 15»
2
Cuba and the U.S. restore full diplomatic relations after more than …
WASHINGTON — More than a half century of Cold War and lingering enmity came to an abrupt but quiet end on Monday as the United States ... «National Post, Jul 15»
3
Gulf Oil Wells Lingering With Temporary Seals
(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) Five years after the Obama administration promised to move swiftly to permanently plug unused oil and gas wells ... «Chem.Info, Jul 15»
4
Xinjiang gripped by lingering heat wave | Shanghai Daily
Xinjiang gripped by lingering heat wave. Jul 19,2015. URUMQI, July 19 (Xinhua) -- Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China sustained a red alert ... «Shanghai Daily, Jul 15»
5
Gulf oil wells lingering with temporary seals - AOL.com
Five years after the Obama administration promised to move swiftly to permanently plug unused oil and gas wells in the Gulf of Mexico, even ... «AOL News, Jul 15»
6
Gulf oil wells lingering with temporary seals - Fredericksburg.com …
Gulf oil wells lingering with temporary seals BY JEFF DONN Fredericksburg.com | 0 comments. BY JEFF DONN. ASSOCIATED PRESS ... «Fredericksburg.com, Jul 15»
7
AP Exclusive: Gulf oil wells lingering with temporary seals
FILE - In this April 21, 2010, file photo, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice, La. «Gainesville Sun, Jul 15»
8
Lingering PMAN Leadership Crisis |
The lingering crisis has made the scenario in PMAN similar to that of a rocking chair, movement but no motion. Some cases challenging the ... «Leadership Newspapers, Jul 15»
9
Lingering calf injury will keep Frank Lampard from making New York …
New York City FC will take the field at Gillette Stadium on Saturday for an important Eastern Conference showdown without Designated Player ... «MLSsoccer.com, Jul 15»
10
Mandate-era play combusts lingering myths on Palestine | The …
Told by only five actors, this play in three acts charts the Zionist journey from Chaim Weitzman (who would become first president of Israel) ... «The Electronic Intifada, Jul 15»

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