shoring

1. 1.

   a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support

   Synonymsshore

   Broaderbeam
2. 2.

   the act of propping up with shores

   Synonymsshoring uppropping up

   Broadersupport

Other forms of shoring

plural

shorings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shoring

What does shoring mean?

shoring means "a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shoring?

shoring has 2 syllables: sho-ring. The stress falls on "sho". In IPA it is /ˈʃɔɹɪŋ/.

What is another word for shoring?

Close synonyms include shore, shoring up, propping up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shoring a common word?

shoring is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.