Crossword clues for airing
airing
- Miss start of couple broadcasting
- Expressing publicly
- Broadcasting a current band
- Twosome avoiding initial exposure
- Public disclosure
- Making public
- Exposure to public view
- What a musty room needs
- Television broadcast, e.g
- Showing on television
- Hanging out to dry
- Going public with
- Broadcast, e.g
- Broadcast of a show
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Air \Air\ ([^a]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Aired ([^a]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Airing.] [See Air, n., and cf. A[eum]rate.]
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To expose to the air for the purpose of cooling, refreshing, or purifying; to ventilate; as, to air a room.
It were good wisdom . . . that the jail were aired.
--Bacon.Were you but riding forth to air yourself.
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To expose for the sake of public notice; to display ostentatiously; as, to air one's opinion.
Airing a snowy hand and signet gem.
--Tennyson. To expose to heat, for the purpose of expelling dampness, or of warming; as, to air linen; to air liquors.
Airing \Air"ing\ ([^a]r"[i^]ng), n.
A walk or a ride in the open air; a short excursion for health's sake.
An exposure to air, or to a fire, for warming, drying, etc.; as, the airing of linen, or of a room.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"action of exposing to air," c.1600, from present participle of air (v.). Meaning "display, public exposure is from 1870.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) An exposure to warm or fresh air. 2 (context countable English) A public expression of an opinion or discussion of a subject. vb. (present participle of air English)
WordNet
n. the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate [syn: dissemination, public exposure, spreading]
a short excursion (a walk or ride) in the open air; "he took the dogs for an airing"
the act of supplying fresh air and getting rid of foul air [syn: ventilation]
Usage examples of "airing".
At last he had given his grievance an airing, and compared with his previous treatment rude letters, curt telephone calls, and ignored requests for information smooth evasions were a decided improvement.
If they did, they would not find his only carrier airing bedding and fighting rust in port.
Casanova, after airing her high-flown ideas, began to sulk with her lover.
There hobbles Goody Foster, a sour and bitter old beldam, looking as if she went to curse, and not to pray, and whom many of her neighbors suspect of taking an occasional airing on a broomstick.
The woman who had defecated on the grass of the airing court had devised a dance of her own: she made a trancelike pattern with both arms held out in front of her, as though perhaps rocking a large child in her arms, while her face, in which the mouth was puckered inward over blackened gums, was stretched by an expression of concentrated wonder.
Taking the inventory in my hand, I pointed out every article marked down, except when the said article, having through my instrumentality taken an airing out of the house, happened to be missing, and whenever any article was absent I said that I had not the slightest idea where it might be.
Committee Chairman Hond insisted on airing his theory that Pacific Project was the name Earth gave to a device for using internal traitors on the Outer Worlds.
The world started up again, the TV came back on and there was a muffled plocking from Pickwick, who had managed to lock herself in the airing cupboard again.
Hero was just deciding that it would be pleasant to go for an airing in Hyde Park in her barouche, when the first of her morning callers knocked on the door.
Everything went against the lad: he came home perfumed from the stables, whither he had been to pay his dog Towzer a visit--and whence he was going to take his friend out for an airing, when he met Miss Crawley and her wheezy Blenheim spaniel, which Towzer would have eaten up had not the Blenheim fled squealing to the protection of Miss Briggs, while the atrocious master of the bull-dog stood laughing at the horrible persecution.
Winter damps down Discontent, which smolders by the Hearths of Cottages and Pothouses, but once let out with the Spring Airing, it will flee abroad like the foul Odors from a sealed House, staining the Air.
He went to a weekly show, then to a daily show on a regular local channel, and at last to a syndicated national show airing six times a week, and along the way he built up Fairchild Ministries, Inc.
George then descries, in the procession, the venerable Mr. Smallweed out for an airing, attended by his granddaughter Judy as body-guard.
Taking the inventory in my hand, I pointed out every article marked down, except when the said article, having through my instrumentality taken an airing out of the house, happened to be missing, and whenever any article was absent I said that I had not the slightest idea where it might be.
Casanova, after airing her high-flown ideas, began to sulk with her lover.