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/thrash"ing/, n.1. a flogging; whipping.2. the act of a person or thing that thrashes.3. a pile or quantity of threshed grain or the grain threshed at one time.[1350-1400; ME; see THRASH, -ING1]
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Thrashing — Thrash ing, a. & n. from {Thrash}, v. [1913 Webster] {Thrashing floor}, {Threshing floor}, or {Threshing floor}, a floor or area on which grain is beaten out. {Thrashing machine}, a machine for separating grain from the straw. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
thrashing — index battery Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
thrashing — [thrash′iŋ] n. a beating; flogging … English World dictionary
Thrashing — Als Paging (vgl. engl. page Speicherseite) oder deutsch Kachelverwaltung bezeichnet man die Methode der Arbeitsspeicher Verwaltung per Seitenadressierung durch Betriebssysteme. Dabei wird häufig aus Effizienzgründen die sogenannte Memory… … Deutsch Wikipedia
thrashing — noun 1 hitting ADJECTIVE ▪ good, sound VERB + THRASHING ▪ give ▪ get ▪ He got a sound thrashing once his father found out … Collocations dictionary
thrashing — [[t]θræ̱ʃɪŋ[/t]] thrashings 1) N COUNT: usu with supp If one player or team gives another one a thrashing, they defeat them easily or by a large score. [INFORMAL] She dropped only eight points in the 43 minute thrashing of the former Wimbledon… … English dictionary
thrashing — thrash|ing [ˈθræʃıŋ] n especially BrE 1.) an occasion when you beat someone or are beaten violently as a punishment ▪ If you speak to your mother like that again, you ll get a thrashing . ▪ I ll give you the thrashing you deserve. 2.) informal an … Dictionary of contemporary English
thrashing — UK [ˈθræʃɪŋ] / US noun [countable] Word forms thrashing : singular thrashing plural thrashings 1) informal an easy victory in a game or competition a 7–1 thrashing 2) an act of hitting someone hard several times, especially as a punishment … English dictionary
thrashing — n. a sound thrashing * * * [ θræʃɪŋ] a sound thrashing … Combinatory dictionary
thrashing — noun (C) give /get a thrashing a) to beat someone or be beaten violently as a punishment: If you speak to your mother like that again, you ll get a thrashing. b) to defeat someone or be defeated easily in a game … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
thrashing — An excessive amount of disk activity that causes a virtual memory system to spend all its time swapping pages in and out of memory, and no time executing the application. Thrashing can be caused when poor system configuration creates a swap … Dictionary of networking
