What is the meaning of -ing?

Used to form nouns or noun-like words (or elements of noun phrases) from verbs, denoting the act of doing something, an action, or the embodiment of an action.

1. As true nouns.

   As true nouns.

   As gerunds.

   Used to form nouns denoting materials or systems of objects which are used or employed in an action, or considered collectively.

   Used to form present participles of verbs.

   Forming derivative nouns (originally masculine), with the sense ‘son of, belonging to’, as in placenames, patronymics or diminutives; -ite.

   Forming nouns having a specified quality, characteristic, or nature; of the kind of

   added to a verb to form a noun for an action or process, the result of or the subject performing such action

   designates a person of a certain origin or with certain qualities

   Creates action nouns referring to the performance of a verb, or the result thereof.

   Forms nouns for a person originating from a place or family.

   -ing

   plural marker

   Used to form diminutives.

   Forms gerunds from verbs, typically referring to the process of performing the verb, but also referring to the effect of the verb, what the verb affects, the capability or permission of performing the verb, or that which performs the verb.

   Forms collective nouns from verbs meaning "to utilise (a given thing)".

   Forms diminutives; these can be either affective or insulting.

   Forms nouns meaning "son of".

   Used to form verbal nouns from verbs; -ing.

   Used to form demonyms.

   Used to form verbal nouns from verbs; -ing.

   Used to form demonyms.

   A suffix denoting the locative form of a noun

   Forming nouns from verbs, indicating action, process or material.

   Forming derivatives of nouns with sense of ‘belonging to, son of’.

   Forms gerund nouns from verbs

   clitic possessive of aing (“I, me”); my

   Forms gerund nouns from verbs

   locative

   Used to form verbal nouns from verbs

   -ing

   Used to form verbal nouns which jocularly imply that something is a sport, trend, or fashionable concept.

   Added to a verb or to an onomatopoeic stem to form a verb denoting repetitive action.

   -ing; indicates an action performed by a verb

   Forms colloquial or humorous nouns.

   Alternative form of -in (“ing”)

   forms verbal nouns from verbs

   Used to form verbal nouns from verbs; -ation.

   added to a noun stem, causing i-mutation (if applicable), forming a noun denoting an inhabitant or original of a particular place, a descendant of a person, etc.; -er, -ite. See also -ling.

   diminutive suffix

   diminutive suffix, used to form diminutives ending in consonants, especially given names, often one already shortened or with a diminutive suffix.

   second-person singular possessive suffix, used after a noun ending in a consonant

   Source: wiktionary.org