Used in a Sentence

messing

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for messing.

Editorial note

No messing around with settings, no figuring out your complex environment's logging settings, where stdout/stderr end up, etc.

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Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A surname from German.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of messing gathered in one view.

noun

A surname from German.

noun

A village in Messing-cum-Inworth parish, Colchester district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL8918).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for messing.

noun

A surname from German.

noun

A village in Messing-cum-Inworth parish, Colchester district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL8918).

Example sentences

1

No messing around with settings, no figuring out your complex environment's logging settings, where stdout/stderr end up, etc.

2

The less magic they contain outside of stock cell formulas the less chance of users messing up the computation.

3

You're either messing around with a few ideas and trying to see what bites or you don't have a product.

4

When's the last time a volcano came close to messing up a space station?

5

They are not pushing the platform forward; just messing about with the GUI.

6

More generally, I really like the idea of generating controlled synthetic images and then messing them up for regularization.

7

With local state you'd have to wire up those controls directly to the internal state of a component, completely messing up separation of concerns.

8

I firstly thought he was messing with us, but I jumped in the lake for him after about 10 seconds.

9

You can actively employ as many netsec hobbyists that spend their evenings hunting vulnerabilities, reading research and messing with security software as you want.

10

Accepting applicants who are married and screwing with their spouses' minds is incredibly ugly, even if it's just messing with people's heads and not actually separating families.

11

Even mundane issues such as how to handle real cash contributions sometimes made by founders without messing up the common stock price can prove troublesome if mishandled.

12

Other monitors outside that room and in other levels were fine, thus the room was dubbed the Poltergeist Room (as they blamed spirits for messing with it).

Quote examples

1

We have been complaining about them messing up Google+ immediately when they introduced the "no unusual name" policy, or when they integrated Youtube.

2

The top "disadvantage" discussion in that thread is about somebody messing up their links because they rolled their own base64 encoding with period characters in it...

3

Sitka deer messing up the gene pool of red deer may cast some doubt on the overall goal of this effort and it will certainly add to the cost if Red Deer are to be kept "pure".

4

At the moment I'm messing with some simple Machine Learning to better detect things like "Johannes Brahms" == "Brahms, Johannes" == "Brahms" for names in composer/artist fields.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use messing in a sentence?

No messing around with settings, no figuring out your complex environment's logging settings, where stdout/stderr end up, etc.

What does messing mean?

A surname from German.

What part of speech is messing?

messing is commonly used as noun.