beïng

A form of being — A living creature.

Meanings

verb
  1. alternativerareAlternative spelling of being.

    The material beïng pumped is wastewater from concrete-production (water with a small amount of cement-sludge and sand).

    1998 December 10, Steven Smolders, “Mechanical seal of submersible pumps”, in ut.engineering.general (Usenet), message-ID <74pif6$h84$1@news0.skynet.be>
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    After installation, i^([sic]) changed the config.sys and autoexec.bat again so both files will be loaded again, restarted win95 and,... everything works fine / (for the time beïng ?)

    1996 November 16, P. Goovaerts, “Re: Rumba 400 and Windows 95...”, in comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc (Usenet), message-ID <01bbd3bb$98beb240$06ba30ce@p.-goovaerts>

    According to everything I've ever read, it is the opposite: English is undergoing a *unification* of dialects, especially between American and British variëties^([sic]). English is growing and diversifying only in capabilities and vocabulary to the extent that is it picking these up, while it is beïng assimilated into the whole of World English too quickly to be a cause for dialecticalization.

    1996 December 11, Tom Wier, “Re: Chinese dialect”, in soc.culture.china (Usenet), message-ID <32AF69F3.4EE8@postoffice.worldnet.att.net>

    Recieving^([sic]) an ISO-certification is not hot news - although we think that the certification we recieved^([sic]) today is kind of unique - the students (defined as "our clients") in our school (age 15 - 19 years old, following studies on a part time basis because of "beïng tired of going to school all day") where actively involved in the certification-process : they interviewed the management in order to write instructions and flow charts, they made several presentations and they are part of the internal audit-team of our school.

    1998 May 28, Carl Malfliet, “ISO 9001-certification in education”, in misc.industry.quality (Usenet), message-ID <01bd8a85$46938b80$LocalHost@clbvmicy>

    Maybe this is similar with the mixed situation (see above), but it's something else than beïng aware in two states at the same time. / I though believe in giving your unconsciousness a task, while conscoiusly^([sic]) beïng busy with someting^([sic]) else.

    1998 September 14, Steve, “Re: Dual consciousness”, in alt.dreams.lucid (Usenet), message-ID <6tio2a$si9$2@news1.skynet.be>

    Whenever I boot Linux with the Xircom-card inserted, it gives an error that I interpret as not beïng able to communicate with the PCMCIA-card. At first I thought the configuration of the PCMCIA Card Services was the problem.

    1998 October 19, Nils van der Laan, “PCMCIA Question”, in comp.os.linux.hardware (Usenet), message-ID <70fe6b$872$1@news.Eindhoven.NL.net>

Origin

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APA

beïng. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/be%C3%AFng

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“beïng.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/be%C3%AFng. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “beïng,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/be%C3%AFng.

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