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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Currently taking place: an ongoing festival.
  2. adj. In progress or evolving.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Advance; the act of advancing; progression.
  2. n. plural Proceedings; goings-on.
  3. Progressing; proceeding; not intermitting.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. continuing, permanent
  2. adj. presently or currently happening; being in progress
  3. n. Something that is going on; a happening.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The act of going forward; progress; (pl.) affairs; business; current events.
  2. adj. Occurring at present; progressing; in progress; continuing; not past, completed, or future.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. currently happening
  2. adj. currently happening

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  1. progress
  1. business
  1. progressing
  1. continuing

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  1. current

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  1. past
  1. completed
  1. future

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  1. recent
  2. long-term
  3. environmental
  4. global
  5. initial
  1. continuous
  2. systematic
  3. jurisdictional
  4. long-running
  5. arab-israeli
  1. inter-departmental
  2. springlike
  3. al-hawsawi
  4. day-to-day
  5. intertribal
  1. shirty
  2. yearlong
  3. syllogistic
  4. one-to-one
  5. cross-project
  1. natalist
  2. dynastic
  3. pre-trial
  4. match-fixing
  5. weight-loss
  1. midterm
  2. high-calorie
  3. psychosocial

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. online
  2. moratorium
  3. ongoing
  1. internalize
  2. monitor
  3. break
  1. surveillance of disease
  2. act
  3. industry
  1. Rwanda
  2. running
  3. fibrinolysis
  1. kept woman
  2. mistress
  3. fancy woman
  1. interruption
  2. run
  3. on

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  • pterodactyl Ooh, I like these poems! I'd heard of Spike Milligan, but only through the Goon Show. Thank you all for enlightening me! Nov 28, 2008

  • plethora My favourite Milligan poem is The Hipporhinostricow:

    Such a beast is the hipporhinostricow
    How it got so mixed up we'll never know how;
    It sleeps all day, and whistles all night,
    And it wears yellow socks which are far too tight.

    If you laugh at the hipporhinostricow,
    You're bound to get into an awful row;
    The creature is protected you see
    From silly people like you and me.
    Nov 28, 2008

  • bilby Perhaps you can find some 'Goon Show' recordings online. His narration of 'The Ratties' was also superb. Spike lived in Australia for a time so he was quite well-known here. Nov 28, 2008

  • rolig I don't think USAmericans really know abou Spike Milligan (I do remember hearing about him when I lived in Canada, however). For some reason I remembered his name as "Mulligan", which is why I didn't get your meaning.

    Thanks for the poem! Nov 28, 2008

  • bilby
    There are many diseases,
    That strike people's kneeses,
    Scorflufus! is one by name
    It comes from the East
    Packed in bladders of yeast
    So the Chinese must take half the blame.

    There's a case in the files
    Of Sir Barrington-Pyles
    While hunting a fox one day
    Shot up in the air
    And remained hanging there!
    While the hairs on his socks turned grey!

    Aye! Scorflufus had struck!
    At man, beast, and duck.
    And the knees of the world went Bong!
    Some knees went Ping!
    Other knees turned to string
    From Balham to old Hong Kong.

    Should you hold your life dear,
    Then the remedy's clear,
    If you're offered some yeast - don't eat it!
    Turn the offer down flat-
    Don your travelling hat-
    Put an egg in your boot - and beat it!     Nov 28, 2008

  • bilby The one and only Sir Spike Milligan, author of the classic 'Silly Verse for Kids'. Nov 28, 2008

  • rolig Should I know Milligan and his/her ism? Nov 28, 2008

  • bilby Yes. Perfect Milliganism. Nov 28, 2008

  • rolig Really?

    So you would accept the following as a perfectly rhymed couplet?

    The crowd's confusion was ongoing
    as the ball went "boing! boing! boing!" Nov 27, 2008

  • bilby Rhymes with either boing or Boeing. Nov 27, 2008

  • jeen0809 The tutoring project is an ongoing program of the school. Apr 14, 2007

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