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Visiting

Visit \Vis"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Visited; p. pr. & vb. n. Visiting.] [F. visiter, L. visitare, fr. visere to go to see, to visit, fr. videre, visum to see. See Vision.]

  1. To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient.

  2. Specifically: To go or come to see for inspection, examination, correction of abuses, etc.; to examine, to inspect; as, a bishop visits his diocese; a superintendent visits persons or works under his charge.

  3. (Script.) To come to for the purpose of chastising, rewarding, comforting; to come upon with reward or retribution; to appear before or judge; as, to visit in mercy; to visit one in wrath.

    [God] hath visited and redeemed his people.
    --Like i. 68.

Visiting

Visiting \Vis"it*ing\,

  1. & v

  2. n. from Visit.

    Visiting ant. (Zo["o]l.) See Driver ant, under Driver.

    Visiting book, a book in which a record of visits received, made, and to be made, is kept.
    --Thackeray.

    Visiting card. See under Card.

Wiktionary
visiting

n. The act of someone or something that visits. vb. (present participle of visit English)

WordNet
visiting

adj. staying temporarily; "a visiting foreigner"; "guest conductor" [syn: guest(a)]

visiting

n. the activity of making visits; "visiting with the neighbors filled her afternoons"

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Usage examples of "visiting".

As thousands of Senate and House staff and those who had been visiting Senate buildings on Monday lined up for their nasal swabs and three-day Cipro supply, my staff busily printed out information on anthrax exposure that we gathered from my Senate website and others and handed it out to those who waited in line.

This pleased rupert but then he had found out she was renting a small bedsit in Vauxhall, rammed to the ceiling with pottery turtles, leatherette footstools and flowery, applique table mats, where she would sneak off as if visiting a lover and would sit for hours, rocking backwards and forwards stroking a ceramic clown amidst a mountain of knick-knacks.

Madam Bulldog passed around the town, visiting such businesses as she would need to deal with, leaving each place with the owners full of admiration for her astute business sense.

In terms of enjoyability, they rank sex ahead of sports, fishing, barhopping, hugging and kissing, talking with the family, eating, watching television, going on trips, planning trips, gardening, bathing, shopping, dressing, housework, dishwashing, laundry, visiting the dentist, and getting the car repaired.

A pretty, vain, completely self-centred woman, she divided the rest of her time between shopping and visiting beauticians and hairdressers.

I caught that look, when King Bester was talking about visiting a Needler lab.

Ten years ago, while Decker and Rina were in Boro Park visiting the Lazaruses, he had run full force into the poor woman by chance, turning her life upside down.

As I entered the brilliantly lighted apartment, filled with the nobles of Kaol and the officers of the visiting jeddak, all eyes were turned upon me.

He had one once, at the edge of town, but he sold it and used the money to buy a troika of bay horses and a small britzka, in which he drove around visiting landowners.

Your case is that this man Birchill, while visiting Riversbrook to commit a burglary which he and Hill arranged, encountered Sir Horace Fewbanks and murdered him.

Just a small party, she had told them, while Irina Burian was visiting with her son from ibn-Qurrah.

In 1974, instead of reclaiming his roots by visiting Bursa, my father renounced them.

As a visiting detective from a foreign country working on a case, Lo Manto would be thousands of miles beyond his jurisdiction and maintain no powers of search, seizure, or arrest.

As they talked on, partly in German and partly in English, their purpose in visiting Ansbach appeared to the Marches more meditated than it was.

Women do not do everything in Ansbach, however, the sacristans being men, as the Marches found when they went to complete their impression of the courtly past of the city by visiting the funeral chapel of the margraves in the crypt of St.