Defining used in a sentence

Defining in a sentence as a noun

Should Clojure start requiring files and defining semantics for them?

Although it looks like a big discussion group, the news feed is really a giant personality-defining display for vain people.

These kinds of documentation are boring as ****, especially if you're just defining everything.

Especially after defining a "startup" as a company meant to grow rapidly and to massive proportions.

Also, lambda is cool but the only difference between that and defining a function inside the body of another function is the requirement of a name.

Just as S-expressions can save you from defining a data model format, and files can save you from a custom key-value store, memory images as in Smalltalk could save you from having to deal with persistence.

And the public election of legislators making the laws defining criminality, and executives running prisons.

Not only that but different departments and agencies have leeway on defining what "sensitive" information is, which goes beyond "classified".Third, nothing changes and nothing works... until it does.

The defining characteristic of the Sociopaths elite is 'the basic heads-I-win-tails-you-lose pattern behind all Sociopath machinations.

The idea is that, in a free economy, as a matter of policy, it is better for parties to retain freedom in defining the work requirements of a position than for the government to dictate protective rules where the parties are not deemed in need of protection.