Suffix

1. Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns, from verbs.

   the making of the film

2. Used to form uncountable nouns from various parts of speech denoting materials or systems of objects considered collectively.

   Roofing is a material that covers a roof.

   Piping is a system of pipes considered collectively.

Etymology 2

Suffix

1. Used to form present participles of verbs.

   You are making a mess.

Quotations

• If you are connecting to a remote machineyou can simply call connect, it'll check to see if the socket is unbound, and will bind it to an unused local port if necessary.

Suffix

1. Forming (originally masculine) derivative nouns, with the sense ‘son of, belonging to’, as patronymics or diminutives.

Suffix

1. -ing; appended to a verb, this suffix is used to refer to the performance of the action of that verb, and the result thereof. The result is a verbal noun which in Dutch is called naamwoord van handeling (noun of action).