paying

verb
/ˈpeɪ.ɪŋ/

Etymology

From pay + -ing.

  1. derived from pācō
  2. derived from pācāre
  3. derived from paiier
  4. inherited from payen
  5. suffixed as paying — “pay + ing

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of pay

  2. payment

    • It brings his payings into close and convenient correspondence with his usings of commodities, and different branches of his expenditure thus become easily comparable.

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at paying. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at paying. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at paying

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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