commanding
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /kəˈmændɪŋ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəˈmɑːndɪŋ/
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: com‧mand‧ing
Adjective
[edit]commanding (comparative more commanding, superlative most commanding)
- Tending to give commands, authoritarian.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
- Impressively dominant.
- a commanding structure
- a man with a commanding presence
- Dominating from above, giving a wide view (of a place or position)
- 2018, Rail, issue 857, July 18-July 31, article on Severn Bridge Junction signal box at Shrewsbury
- On the top floor is the lever frame where signalmen are afforded an uninterrupted and commanding view of the junction below, and of Shrewsbury station's five working platforms.
- 2018, Rail, issue 857, July 18-July 31, article on Severn Bridge Junction signal box at Shrewsbury
Verb
[edit]commanding
- present participle and gerund of command
Synonyms
[edit]- (tending to give commands) bossy, imposing
- See also Thesaurus:bossy
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]impressively dominant
Noun
[edit]commanding (plural commandings)
- The act of giving a command.
- 2006, William E. Mann, Augustine's Confessions, page 172:
- God could then have dispelled their ignorance by revealing to them that He had issued those commands; the fact of the occurrence of the earlier commandings would be the content of the revelation.