doings

«doings» in Mova's school dictionary: the things a person does or has done, their actions… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun, plural only (doings)

meaning for a pupil

Doings are the things a person does or has done, their actions, often ones that get judged as good or bad: the doings of a naughty goblin. tree →

sense in the lessons

in stories, the doings of a character are their deeds, often used to show that they are being judged for them: «all his evil doings» are the bad things he did.

examples

• These are the doings of our new puppy, who chews everything. tree →
• The king told the court about the doings of his brother. tree →
• Her kind doings made the whole village happy. tree →
• Mum laughed at my doings in the garden. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before Mine eyes, cease to do evil;
• Say ye of the righteous, that it shall be well with him; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
• Nay, but if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbour;
• And the LORD gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it; then Thou showedst me their doings.
• And it is like people, like priest; and I will punish him for his ways, and will recompense him his doings.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «doings» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.