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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:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb hawk

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