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I always squirm when I read what's called 'creative nonfiction,' and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the world, hoping some of it will stick.
Stewart O'Nan

Meaning of "lobbing" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LOBBING

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LOBBING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Lobbing is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb lobbing in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO LOBBING

PRESENT

Present
I lob
you lob
he/she/it lobs
we lob
you lob
they lob
Present continuous
I am lobbing
you are lobbing
he/she/it is lobbing
we are lobbing
you are lobbing
they are lobbing
Present perfect
I have lobbed
you have lobbed
he/she/it has lobbed
we have lobbed
you have lobbed
they have lobbed
Present perfect continuous
I have been lobbing
you have been lobbing
he/she/it has been lobbing
we have been lobbing
you have been lobbing
they have been lobbing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I lobbed
you lobbed
he/she/it lobbed
we lobbed
you lobbed
they lobbed
Past continuous
I was lobbing
you were lobbing
he/she/it was lobbing
we were lobbing
you were lobbing
they were lobbing
Past perfect
I had lobbed
you had lobbed
he/she/it had lobbed
we had lobbed
you had lobbed
they had lobbed
Past perfect continuous
I had been lobbing
you had been lobbing
he/she/it had been lobbing
we had been lobbing
you had been lobbing
they had been lobbing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will lob
you will lob
he/she/it will lob
we will lob
you will lob
they will lob
Future continuous
I will be lobbing
you will be lobbing
he/she/it will be lobbing
we will be lobbing
you will be lobbing
they will be lobbing
Future perfect
I will have lobbed
you will have lobbed
he/she/it will have lobbed
we will have lobbed
you will have lobbed
they will have lobbed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been lobbing
you will have been lobbing
he/she/it will have been lobbing
we will have been lobbing
you will have been lobbing
they will have been lobbing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would lobbing
you would lobbing
he/she/it would lobbing
we would lobbing
you would lobbing
they would lobbing
Conditional continuous
I would be lobbing
you would be lobbing
he/she/it would be lobbing
we would be lobbing
you would be lobbing
they would be lobbing
Conditional perfect
I would have lobbing
you would have lobbing
he/she/it would have lobbing
we would have lobbing
you would have lobbing
they would have lobbing
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been lobbing
you would have been lobbing
he/she/it would have been lobbing
we would have been lobbing
you would have been lobbing
they would have been lobbing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you lob
we let´s lob
you lob
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to lob
Past participle
lobbed
Present Participle
lobbing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LOBBING

lobar
lobate
lobated
lobately
lobation
lobbed
lobber
lobbied
lobbies
lobby
lobby correspondent
lobbyer
lobbygow
lobbying
lobbyism
lobbyist
lobe
lobectomies
lobectomy

WORDS THAT END LIKE LOBBING

attention-grabbing
back-stabbing
bing
blabbing
bobbing
clubbing
cribbing
dubbing
grabbing
mobbing
nabbing
nightclubbing
robbing
rubbing
scrubbing
sobbing
stabbing
stubbing
subbing
throbbing
webbing

Synonyms and antonyms of lobbing in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «LOBBING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «lobbing» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of lobbing
fling · hurl · launch · lift · loft · pitch · shy · throw · toss

Translation of «lobbing» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LOBBING

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

Translator English - Chinese

高球
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cabildeo
570 millions of speakers

English

lobbing
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

lobbing
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ضرب ضربة منحنية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

лоббирование
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

arremessando
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ছুড়ে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

lobbying
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lobbing
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

lobbing
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

打ち込ま
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

lobbing
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lobbing
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hiện lốp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

lobbing
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लॉबिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

lobbing
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lobbing
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

lobbing
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

лобіювання
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lobbing
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δακρύων
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lobbing
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lobby
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

lobbing
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lobbing

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LOBBING»

The term «lobbing» is regularly used and occupies the 107.846 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LOBBING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «lobbing» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «lobbing» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

EXAMPLES

5 QUOTES WITH «LOBBING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word lobbing.
1
Stephen Bayley
I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy.
2
Janine di Giovanni
Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars.
3
Bill Maher
We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.
4
Stewart O'Nan
I always squirm when I read what's called 'creative nonfiction,' and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the world, hoping some of it will stick.
5
Pat Roberts
I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LOBBING»

Discover the use of lobbing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lobbing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Tennis: Steps to Success
Returning difficult serves, lobbing on an offensive ser— vice return over the player at the net, and lobbing when both opponents are at the net are all ways to set up a winning point. Read step 10 for more about the role of the lob in doubles.
Jim Brown, 2013
2
Rehabilitation for the Postsurgical Orthopedic Patient3: ...
BOX 4-3 rehabilitation throwing program for pitchers—cont'd Phase 6-3 Number of Throws Distance (ft) Day 3 Number of Throws Distance (ft) 10 50 (warm-up) 10 60 10 120-150 (lobbing) 10 45 (off the mound) 30 60 (off the mound) 10 40 ...
‎2013
3
Machining Technology: Machine Tools and Operations
A most common defect of centerless grinding is lobbing (unevenly ground surface). It occurs during grinding of steel bars whose surfaces have some high and some low spots due to hot or cold rolling. Centerless grinding may be external or ...
Helmi A. Youssef, Hassan El-Hofy, 2008
4
Death's Disciples
58. LOBBING. "Whoa, Evers," I say, grabbing the stick and turning it. We've fallen off course. It's likehe'sasleepatthewheel."I wouldn't've let you fly if I knew you were narcoleptic."There'sno response. "At least a courtesy laugh would be ...
J Robert King, 2011
5
Influence of Socio-Economic Environment on the Development ...
... 3,38 3,92 Lobbing for infrastructure development 3,54 3,63 3,55 3,38 3,83 Improvement of regulations 3,25 3,54 3,09 3,26 3,50 Lobbing for public donations 3,31 3,45 3,36 3,21 3,42 Lobbing for receiving UE funds 3,57 3,54 3, 55 3,43 4,17 ...
Anna Iwona Adamik, Agnieszka Zakrzewska, Marek Matejun, 2011
6
Classic Guide to Tennis
the value of the lob has, nevertheless, been continuously on the increase, and there is no doubt at the present time that, not only as an occasional resource, but as an habitual practice, lobbing is an integral part of the game. Againsta strong ...
John Moyer Heathcote, 2014
7
Boys' Life
But this time Conrad was not successful in lobbing the ball deep enough with the result that Hobart killed it off in mid-court with a savage thrust. Score, server fifteen; strike, thirty. Conrad still in the lead! Again a serve — and again a lob.
8
Metrology And Quality Control
Thus the method of circularity measurement has to be such which detects the various possible errors of circularity. 2.7.1 Errors in Circularity Lobbing is an important error in circularity. During certain machining operations, especially all forms of ...
A.M.Badadhe, 2006
9
Beginning Android 2
Lobbing. One. Over. the. Fence. Sometimes, the service needs to asynchronously alert an activity of some occurrence. For example, the theory behind the WeatherPlusService implementation is that the service gets “tickled” when the device ...
Mark Murphy, 2010
10
Humorous and Nonsensical Poems
For example, she chooses “lobbing” instead ofa more common verb like “ throwing” in the phrase “lobbing endless arcs ofshoes”. “Lobbing” is better, as it suggests a repeated, casual chucking. She includes two adjectives in the phrase “bad ...
Liz Miles, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LOBBING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term lobbing is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Jeb Bush defends McCain, but supported Swift Boat attacks against …
The Swift Boat attacks have since been widely discredited and the term swiftboating is now synonymous with lobbing unfair political attacks. TM & © 2015 Cable ... «KXLH Helena News, Jul 15»
2
Video: New Mexico man attacked allegedly by Sergio Vazquez in …
The suspect then starts to close the door, before lobbing a new series of punches at the fleeing victim -- including one that knocked out the ... «CBS News, Jul 15»
3
Comedian Lee Nelson covers Sepp Blatter in wads of cash - BBC …
and lobbing a wad of the fake notes up in to the air. Sepp Blatter and Lee Nelson. For a moment it looked like Sepp had been transported back ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
4
Alexander the Great's Father Found — Maybe - Yahoo News UK
The two sides have been lobbing research papers at each other for years, but seemed at an impasse. "In fact, the issue has become eminently ... «Yahoo News UK, Jul 15»
5
Kragthorpe: Better days ahead for ex-BYU golfer Mike Weir in 2020 …
Weir was lobbing 35-yard pitch shots toward a bucket when Tiger Woods walked past and kidded him, "Wide right." Weir knocked his next shot ... «Salt Lake Tribune, Jul 15»
6
Sheriff Leon Lott: Simultaneous KKK, black separatists rallies w …
Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott is lobbing heavy criticism at state officials for their handling of a pair of rallies put on by the Ku Klux Klan and the Black ... «WMBF, Jul 15»
7
Huskers back to Big 12? No chance - Kearney Hub: Local
You don't see Big Ten presidents lobbing grenades at Commissioner Jim Delany about being “disadvantaged.” The Big Ten is the poster boy ... «Kearney Hub, Jul 15»
8
'Ludicrous' new Tesla Model S P85D does 0-60mph in 2.8 secs …
... performance were its poor fuses, which simply couldn't cope with the monster battery pack lobbing full amperage at the motors all at once. «Top Gear, Jul 15»
9
Sheriff Leon Lott criticizes state government response to KKK, b - WIS
Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott is lobbing heavy criticism to state officials for their handling of a pair of rallies put on by the Ku Klux Klan and the Black ... «WIS, Jul 15»
10
Trialists earn Terriers win in charity contest - News Post Leader
After dominating the opening stages, Skidmore broke the deadlock after 22 minutes after breaking into the box and lobbing the keeper. «New Post Leader, Jul 15»

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