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amazing
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adj 1: surprising greatly; "she does an amazing amount of work";
"the dog was capable of astonishing tricks" [syn:
amazing, astonishing]
2: inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an
amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight";
"the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose
gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul
beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so
vast, so high, so silent" [syn: amazing, awe-inspiring,
awesome, awful, awing]
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appraising
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adj 1: exercising or involving careful evaluations; "looked him
over with an appraising eye"; "the literary judge uses
many evaluative terms" [syn: appraising(a),
evaluative]
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blazing
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adj 1: shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding
headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of
sunlight"; "the glaring sun" [syn: blazing, blinding,
dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary]
2: without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious;
"blatant disregard of the law"; "a blatant appeal to vanity";
"a blazing indiscretion" [syn: blatant, blazing,
conspicuous]
n 1: a strong flame that burns brightly; "the blaze spread
rapidly" [syn: blaze, blazing]
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braising
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n 1: cooking slowly in fat in a closed pot with little moisture
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grazing
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n 1: the act of grazing [syn: graze, grazing]
2: the act of brushing against while passing [syn: grazing,
shaving, skimming]
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making
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n 1: the act that results in something coming to be; "the
devising of plans"; "the fashioning of pots and pans"; "the
making of measurements"; "it was already in the making"
[syn: devising, fashioning, making]
2: an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits
a person for something; "her qualifications for the job are
excellent"; "one of the qualifications for admission is an
academic degree"; "she has the makings of fine musician"
[syn: qualification, making]
3: (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing
something; "the recipe listed all the makings for a chocolate
cake"
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phrasing
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n 1: the grouping of musical phrases in a melodic line
2: the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use
concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton [syn: wording,
diction, phrasing, phraseology, choice of words,
verbiage]
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praising
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adj 1: full of or giving praise; "a laudatory remark" [syn:
laudatory, praiseful, praising]
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racing
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n 1: the sport of engaging in contests of speed
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raising
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adj 1: increasing in quantity or value; "a cost-raising increase
in the basic wage rate"
n 1: the event of something being raised upward; "an elevation
of the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the
land resulting from volcanic activity" [syn: elevation,
lift, raising]
2: the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were
treated as a child [syn: raising, rearing, nurture]
3: helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the
community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more
important" [syn: breeding, bringing up, fostering,
fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing]
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razing
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n 1: the event of a structure being completely demolished and
leveled [syn: razing, wrecking]
2: complete destruction of a building [syn: razing,
leveling, tearing down, demolishing]
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saying
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n 1: a word or phrase that particular people use in particular
situations; "pardon the expression" [syn: saying,
expression, locution]
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zing
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n 1: a brief high-pitched buzzing or humming sound; "the zing of
the passing bullet"
2: the activeness of an energetic personality [syn: dynamism,
pizzazz, pizzaz, oomph, zing]
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beijing
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n 1: capital of the People's Republic of China in the Hebei
province in northeastern China; 2nd largest Chinese city
[syn: Beijing, Peking, Peiping, capital of Red
China]
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brazing
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crazing
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dazing
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gazing
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glazing
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hazing
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lazing
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phasing
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rasing
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blasing
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