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say it: sur-VAY-ing
surveying is a noun meaning "the practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map". It carries one recorded sense.
the practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map
“he studied surveying at college”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for surveying come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.