name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
dowsing
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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CMU ARPABET: D AW1 S IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The practice of seeking water or other substances (usually liquid) with the aid of a forked stick or similar pointing device, as believed by some practitioners to derive from supernatural power.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: divining, water divining, water witching
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
present participle and gerund of dowse
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dowse, rhabdomancy
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: divination, foretelling, soothsaying, fortune telling
History
Etymology
From dowse + -ing.
Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 探尋水源 /探寻水源 (tànxún shuǐyuán) — water-seeking practice
- Chinese Mandarin: 尋水術 /寻水术 (xúnshuǐshù) — water-seeking practice
- Czech: proutkaření — water-seeking practice
- Danish: kvistgang — water-seeking practice
- Finnish: kaivonkatsominen — water-seeking practice
- French: rhabdomancie — water-seeking practice
- Galician: rabdomancia — water-seeking practice
- German: Wünschelrutengehen — water-seeking practice
- Greek: υδροσκοπία (ydroskopía) — water-seeking practice
- Italian: rabdomanzia — water-seeking practice
- Japanese: ダウジング (daujingu) — water-seeking practice
- Russian: лозоиска́тельство (lozoiskátelʹstvo) — water-seeking practice
- Russian: лозохо́дство (lozoxódstvo) — water-seeking practice
- Russian: биолока́ция (biolokácija) — water-seeking practice