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HAWKING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of selling goods for a living
Synonyms:
hawking; peddling; vending; vendition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("hawking" is a kind of...):
marketing; merchandising; selling (the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money)
Derivation:
hawk (sell or offer for sale from place to place)
Sense 2
Meaning:
English theoretical physicist (born in 1942)
Synonyms:
Hawking; Stephen Hawking; Stephen William Hawking
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
physicist (a scientist trained in physics)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb hawk
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