Characterising is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Characterising meaning
present participle and gerund of characterise
Using Characterising
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of characterise
- In the example corpus, characterising often appears in combinations such as: characterising the, characterising it, characterising exoplanet.
Context around Characterising
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 7 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Characterising
- In this selection, "characterising" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, stalled, keep, dishonestly, politicians, others and bacteria stand out and add context to how "characterising" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after characterising bacteria she and characterising the threat. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "characterising" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with characterising
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
There are a number of geophysical methods for characterising aquifers. (10 words)
Gene flow will effectively cease when the distinctive mutations characterising each subgroup become fixed. (14 words)
Characterising the threat Characterisation of the problem requires understanding of: * The interference source and signal. (15 words)
Yet it is only two months since Crouch rejected that case quite dismissively, characterising standing’s advocates as just a “vocal minority” and saying “the clubs aren’t convinced either”. (30 words)
Melei, a firebrand economist-turned-lawmaker, made a name for himself by shouting against Argentina’s “political caste” on television, and characterising politicians as “thieves who live like monarchs”. (29 words)
The next endeavour in this exciting subject is ESA's Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, which is currently undergoing final preparations ahead of its launch scheduled for mid December. (28 words)
Example sentences (14)
He said that for the last two years negotiations on the protocol had somewhat stalled, characterising it as "rather slow".
Melei, a firebrand economist-turned-lawmaker, made a name for himself by shouting against Argentina’s “political caste” on television, and characterising politicians as “thieves who live like monarchs”.
We keep characterising others as lazy and pointing to the fortunate few who have broken through as though this can be the norm.
After characterising bacteria, she used DNA sequencing to examine the viruses living on those same samples.
A roadside corflute from the 2022 federal election dishonestly characterising independent candidate David Pocock as a Greens extremist member… the damage was done, says Andrew Hughes.
Director Tamizharasan does a splendid job of characterising and, as the film progresses, humanising Anbu and Gethu’s tryst with a myriad of emotions.
His attacks on the Fed included characterising Chairman Jerome Powell as an "enemy" - on par, in his view, with President Xi Jinping of China.
The next endeavour in this exciting subject is ESA's Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, which is currently undergoing final preparations ahead of its launch scheduled for mid December.
Yet it is only two months since Crouch rejected that case quite dismissively, characterising standing’s advocates as just a “vocal minority” and saying “the clubs aren’t convinced either”.
Another of Popper's students Paul Feyerabend ultimately rejected any prescriptive methodology, and argued that the only universal method characterising scientific progress was anything goes.
Characterising the threat Characterisation of the problem requires understanding of: * The interference source and signal.
Gene flow will effectively cease when the distinctive mutations characterising each subgroup become fixed.
Practical realisation of the metre is subject to uncertainties in characterising the medium, to various uncertainties of interferometry, and to uncertainties in measuring the frequency of the source.
There are a number of geophysical methods for characterising aquifers.
Common combinations with characterising
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- characterising the 3×
- characterising it 2×
- characterising exoplanet 2×
- in characterising 2×