GRAZING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grazing mean? 

• GRAZING (noun)
  The noun GRAZING has 2 senses:

1. the act of grazing

2. the act of brushing against while passing

  Familiarity information: GRAZING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAZING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of grazing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

graze; grazing

Hypernyms ("grazing" is a kind of...):

eating; feeding (the act of consuming food)

Derivation:

graze (feed as in a meadow or pasture)

graze (let feed in a field or pasture or meadow)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of brushing against while passing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

grazing; shaving; skimming

Hypernyms ("grazing" is a kind of...):

touch; touching (the act of putting two things together with no space between them)

Derivation:

graze (scrape gently)

graze (break the skin (of a body part) by scraping)

 Context examples 

A deep canyon informally named Argo Chasma is seen grazing the limb.

(A ‘Super Grand Canyon’ on Pluto’s Moon Charon, NASA)

At the time of the 1997 flyby, about 124 miles (200 kilometers) above Europa's surface, the Galileo team didn't suspect the spacecraft might be grazing a plume erupting from the icy moon.

(Old Data Reveal New Evidence of Europa Plumes, NASA)

Cassini's imaging cameras acquired these latest views on Dec. 2 and 3, about two days before the first ring-grazing approach to the planet.

(Over Saturn's Turbulent North, NASA)

His eyes fell upon the horses, grazing upon the scanty pasture, and in an instant all had come back to him—his mission, his comrades, the need for haste.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

C. haemolyticum is found in soil and water and is pathogenic, being the causative agent of Red Water disease in grazing animals.

(Clostridium haemolyticum, NCI Thesaurus)

Because horses are prohibited from grazing in designated grazing areas, to prevent them from competing for food with cattle, some farmers have been letting horses graze unattended in forests.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)

Since the border was established in 1982, wood-gathering and grazing have ceased on the Israeli side.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

Holmes followed him, and I, leaving the horse grazing beside the road, followed Holmes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sun was just grazing the top of the oak.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The nag was grazing at some distance, not suspecting any harm.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)