Usually means: Specifying meaning of words, concepts.
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  1. defining: Merriam-Webster
  2. defining: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. defining: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. defining: Wiktionary
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  8. defining: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Defining: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Defining: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. defining: Rhymezone
  12. Defining: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. defining: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. defining: FreeDictionary.org
  15. defining: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. defining: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. defining: Legal dictionary

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  1. defining: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (defining)

▸ adjective:  Serving to define or distinguish.

Similar:
shaping, redefine, identifying, characterize, determine, distinguishing, codifying, establishing, specifying, describe, more...

Opposite:
blurring, obscuring, confusing, generalizing, clouding

Types:
essential, characteristic, distinguishing, more...

Phrases:
defining moment, defining moments, defining criteria, defining vocabulary, defining power, more...

Adjectives:
self, first, non, further, more, such, worth, careful, better, precise, aids

Colors:
    crimson,     indigo,     emerald,     sapphire,     amber, more...



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Similar:
shaping, redefine, identifying, characterize, determine, distinguishing, codifying, establishing, specifying, describe, more...

Opposite:
blurring, obscuring, confusing, generalizing, clouding

Types:
essential, characteristic, distinguishing, more...

Phrases:
defining moment, defining moments, defining criteria, defining vocabulary, defining power, aids defining illness, defining characteristic, defining feature, defining statement, defining trait, defining issue, more...

Adjectives:
self, first, non, further, more, such, worth, careful, better, precise, aids

Colors:
    crimson,     indigo,     emerald,     sapphire,     amber, more...



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