Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of playing on the harp; notes or strains performed on the harp.
- noun Nautical: The fore parts of the wales, which encompass the bow and are fastened to the stem.
- noun In ship-building, the continuations of the ribands at both extremities of a ship, fixed to keep the cant-frames, etc., in position till the outside planking is worked.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to the harp.
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- verb Present participle of
harp .
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Examples
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I just didn't see the point in harping on the obvious.
"...to watch you shake and shout it out..." unknownbinaries 2010
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Also on this military subject, Wagner also brags on a long string of military units he has taught around the world, one such harping is on
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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This kind of trivial harping is exactly why nobody with half a brain takes “Progressives” seriously.
Think Progress » Memorandum To Tony Snow On The Use Of The Term ‘Tar Baby’ 2006
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It may be that in harping in highest exultation how they had won to, and touched, the Path Ambrosial – the Amataŋ Padaŋ40 – Nibbana, they implied some state inconceivable to thought, inexpressible by language, while the one and the other are limited to concepts and terms of life; and yet a state which, while not in time or space, positively constitutes the sequel of the glorious and blissful days of this life's residuum.
Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909
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I suppose the upside of this harping from the left is that’ll make Obama look more centrist than he really as he attempts to push his ambitious agenda.
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I think you’re making a big mistake in harping on Guiliani’s foreign policy knowledge/abilities if you think it will affect the reason some folks like him for “national security” reasons.
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I think you’re making a big mistake in harping on Guiliani’s foreign policy knowledge/abilities if you think it will affect the reason some folks like him for “national security” reasons.
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Whence it comes to pass that they often become food to us; for, when they swim close by the ships, they are struck by a broad instrument full of barbed points, called a harping-iron, to which a rope is fastened, by which to pull the instrument and the fish on board.
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HOLMES: And General, forgive us if we are wrong here, because you'd think as both kind of harping on this point, because it sounds like this is the same bureaucratic mess that seems to happened sometimes that slows things down when a crisis happens.
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I am offended that you would suggest my comment is "harping," as I believe it is the first time I've expressed that opinion.
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