Words that rhyme with clinging

adj 1: (used informally) very large; "a thumping loss" [syn: humongous, banging, thumping, whopping, walloping] n 1: a continuing very loud noise 2: the act of subjecting to strong attack [syn: battering, banging]

adj 1: serving to begin; "the beginning canto of the poem"; "the first verse" [syn: beginning(a), first] n 1: the event consisting of the start of something; "the beginning of the war" [ant: conclusion, ending, finish] 2: the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her" [syn: beginning, commencement, first, outset, get-go, start, kickoff, starting time, showtime, offset] [ant: end, ending, middle] 3: the first part or section of something; "`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story" [ant: end, middle] 4: the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" [syn: beginning, origin, root, rootage, source] 5: the act of starting something; "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations" [syn: beginning, start, commencement] [ant: finish, finishing]

n 1: the state or fact of existing; "a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries" [syn: being, beingness, existence] [ant: nonbeing, nonentity, nonexistence] 2: a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently [syn: organism, being]

n 1: the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail); "his reluctant delivery of bad news" [syn: delivery, bringing]

n 1: (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat [syn: inning, frame]

adj 1: pertaining to living persons; "within living memory" 2: true to life; lifelike; "the living image of her mother" 3: (informal) absolute; "she is a living doll"; "scared the living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him" 4: still in existence; "the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil"; "the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania" [syn: surviving, living] 5: still in active use; "a living language" 6: (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried; "carved into the living stone"; n 1: the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life" [syn: life, living] 2: people who are still living; "save your pity for the living" [ant: dead] 3: the condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes" [syn: animation, life, living, aliveness] 4: the financial means whereby one lives; "each child was expected to pay for their keep"; "he applied to the state for support"; "he could no longer earn his own livelihood" [syn: support, keep, livelihood, living, bread and butter, sustenance]

n 1: a mutual promise of a couple not to date anyone else; on college campuses it was once signaled by the giving of a fraternity pin

n 1: the sound of a bell ringing; "the distinctive ring of the church bell"; "the ringing of the telephone"; "the tintinnabulation that so voluminously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells"--E. A. Poe [syn: ring, ringing, tintinnabulation] 2: the giving of a ring as a token of engagement 3: having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant [syn: plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness, sonority, vibrancy]

v 1: deliver by singing; "Sing Christmas carols" 2: produce tones with the voice; "She was singing while she was cooking"; "My brother sings very well" 3: to make melodious sounds; "The nightingale was singing" 4: make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound; "the kettle was singing"; "the bullet sang past his ear" [syn: whistle, sing] 5: divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his secretary talks" [syn: spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out] [ant: keep one's mouth shut, keep quiet, shut one's mouth]

adj 1: smooth and flowing [syn: cantabile, singing] n 1: the act of singing vocal music [syn: singing, vocalizing] 2: disclosing information or giving evidence about another [syn: tattle, singing, telling]

n 1: throwing with a wide motion (as if with a sling)

n 1: creating thread

adj 1: (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character; "cutting remarks"; "edged satire"; "a stinging comment" [syn: cutting, edged, stinging] n 1: a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung; "the sting of death"; "he felt the stinging of nettles" [syn: sting, stinging]

adj 1: characterized by a buoyant rhythm; "an easy lilting stride"; "the flute broke into a light lilting air"; "a swinging pace"; "a graceful swingy walk"; "a tripping singing measure" [syn: lilting, swinging, swingy, tripping] n 1: changing location by moving back and forth [syn: swing, swinging, vacillation]