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Airing

noun

The opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate. Synonyms: dissemination, public exposure, spreading.

A short excursion (a walk or ride) in the open air.

The act of supplying fresh air and getting rid of foul air. Synonym: ventilation.

Air

verb

(past & past part. aired; pres. part. airing)

Expose to fresh air. Synonyms: aerate, air out.

Be broadcast.

Broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television. Synonyms: beam, broadcast, send, transmit.

Make public. Synonyms: bare, publicise, publicize.

Expose to warm or heated air, so as to dry.

Expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen. Synonyms: air out, vent, ventilate. "Air out the smoke-filled rooms"

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"Airing" Quotes from Famous Books

... may airing indoors be commenced, and how long continued? When the baby is one month old. For fifteen minutes at a time at first and may be lengthened ten to fifteen minutes daily. This airing may be continued ...

— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... homes. These little larvae must be fed often and kept clean. The workers are the nurses as well as housekeepers. If the babies happen to be in a cool, damp part of the house they must be carried into a warmer, drier place. So the workers pick them up and take them out for an airing. Often they carry the little cocoons out into the warm sunshine or move them about from place to place. In some families of ants there are some with very big heads and strong jaws. These are the soldiers. If there is any trouble in their village these big-headed fellows go out as scouts or act as ...

— Little Busybodies - The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies • Jeanette Augustus Marks and Julia Moody

... (with no great delinquencies to answer for) I am glad for a season to take an airing beyond the diocese of the strict conscience,—not to live always in the precincts of the law- courts,—but now and then, for a dream-while or so, to imagine a world with no meddling restrictions—to get into recesses, whither ...

— English literary criticism • Various

... went, would be no protection; but she would return early. To be certain, she made a calculation. It would take about half an hour to get to the wall; the sun would set soon after seven; by starting home at six she could have fully an hour and a half for the airing, which meant a possible hour and a half ...

— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 2 • Lew. Wallace

... front—nothing; to the right everything is in order, the weather is only so-so, but the rain keeps off, and there are no signs of that dilatory person with the fish; so Tommy flops in again, and becomes once more a floating patch, having conducted his little airing with proper dignity and self-respect. Really, there is nothing common in the manners of Tommy; there is, at any rate, one piece of rude mischief which he is never guilty of, but which many of the more aristocratic ...

— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 26, February 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various

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