debating
present participle ofdebate
| 单词 | debating |
| 释义 | debating present participle ofdebate debate verb uk/dɪˈbeɪt/us/dɪˈbeɪt/C2[IorT] todiscussasubjectin aformalway: In Parliament today,MPsdebated the FinanceBill. They had been debating for severalhourswithoutreachingaconclusion. [+ question word]Theauthoritiesdebatedwhethertobuilda newcarpark. to talk about something
[T] totryto make adecisionabout something: [+ question word]We debatedwhetherto take theearliertrain. I'm still debatingwhatcolourtopaintthewalls.
Debate & discussion
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Thinking and contemplating Examplesofdebatingdebating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. We might still disagree about what is feasible, or how much feasibility matters, but at least we can figure out what we are reallydebating. From theCambridge English Corpus Such departments are currentlydebatingthe nature of their subject. From theCambridge English Corpus In contrast, he would challenge or counter the person's jibes, with the same intensity as he would if he weredebatingan issue. From theCambridge English Corpus The hierarchical nature of the corps, however, produced the same problem that early efforts atdebatinghad done. From theCambridge English Corpus People who had never imagined discussing it seriously at home were now bombarded in the media by constant publicdebatingof the issue. From theCambridge English Corpus Instead ofdebatingissues, in-yer-face theatre imposes its point of view on the audience. From theCambridge English Corpus On thedebatingcourtyard, monks deliberately place this ideology in jeopardy. From theCambridge English Corpus They are forming their own opinions, avidly discussing anddebatingthem, and trying to bring others around to their way of thinking. From theCambridge English Corpus One of the working groups emphasised the importance of sharing experiences, anddebatinganalyses of local conflict. From theCambridge English Corpus Debatingthe privacy issues in one domain rather than another portends very different policies. From theCambridge English Corpus It aids the processes of learning,debating, and revising one's priorities. From theCambridge English Corpus Again, this is more than an academicdebatingpoint. From theCambridge English Corpus However, although this claim is well worthdebating, it is not the crux of the argument, so let's move on. From theCambridge English Corpus Establishing guilt by association was in other words a frequent and sometimes very successful strategy in the strongly polariseddebatingclimate of the 1970s. From theCambridge English Corpus However, in subsequent years, both governments became increasingly involved indebatingfuture regulatory options of the railways, in particular with regard to organisational structure. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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