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UK
/ɹɪsˈiːdɪŋ/
]
[ US /ɹiˈsidɪŋ, ɹɪˈsidɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ɹiˈsidɪŋ, ɹɪˈsidɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- a slow or gradual disappearance
- the act of becoming more distant
ADJECTIVE
- (of a hairline e.g.) moving slowly back
How To Use receding In A Sentence
- In the receding angle below the chin is the hyoid bone, and the finger can be carried along the bone to the tip of the greater cornu, which is on a level with the angle of the mandible: the greater cornu is most readily appreciated by making pressure on one side, when the cornu of the opposite side will be rendered prominent and can be felt distinctly beneath the skin. XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 1. Surface Anatomy of the Head and Neck
- The preceding months of wrangling were the cause of a great deal of economic uncertainty.
- A slight aspirate preceding and modifying the sibilant, which is, however, the stronger of the two consonants; _e.g. hsing_ = _hissing_ without the first _i_, Myths and Legends of China
- The relative clause: it is defined as a clausal modifier, restrictive or non-restrictive, used to modify a preceding construction, most often a preceding noun or noun phrase.
- This was especially worrying given that three quarters of those surveyed claimed to have experienced rudeness in the preceding year. Times, Sunday Times
- The preceding locution is established Mazzinian; the following clearly mine. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
- The New York law confers a right of inspection only on persons who have been church members for the six months preceding their request for inspection. Christianity Today
- But unlike Karl Barth or Paul Tillich, for example, who saw themselves as fusing philosophy and theology, Rosenstock-Huessy refused to see himself primarily as a philosopher or theologian ” though when the term philosopher was qualified by the preceding ˜social™, he was more willing to accept that designation. [ Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
- Kazzer was a big deal before anybody even knew who he was - in the months preceding the release of his first CD, Pedal to the Metal, he was already on a Canada-wide tour to promote his brand of good-time rock & hip-hop.
- At the national level, they show that for most of the twentieth century, each successive cohort of young people left home at an average age below that of the cohort immediately preceding them.