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Definitions: -ING

-ING

1. A suffix formerly used to form diminutives; as, lording, farthing.

2. A suffix used to form nouns from verbs, and signifying the act of; the result of the act; as, riding, dying, feeling. It has also a secondary collective force; as, shipping, clothing.

3. A suffix used to from present participles; as, singing, playing.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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Crosswords: -ING

English words defined with "-ING": -ationInfinitive moodpresent participleVerbal noun. (references)
Specialty definitions using "-ING": Kingly Titles. (references)
Etymologies containing "-ING": CatlingFlating. (references)

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Commercial Usage: -ING

DomainTitle

Books

  • Sing-Song Sid: -Ing, -Ong, -And (Dr. Maggie's Phonics Readers Series; A New View) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: -ING

"-ING" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 59.09% of the time. "-ING" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)59.09%1397,576
Noun (singular)40.91%9117,287
                    Total100.00%22N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: -ING

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "-ING": f---ing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: -ING

Language Translations for "-ING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

(apply, book, catch, ignited, outstanding, part. indicates accompanying action, plan, receive, settlement, suffer, to contact, to make known, to prove, to show, to touch, to use, to wear, to write). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ち"ど"屋 (against one's better judgement, by mistake, determinedly, have been -ing, hoodlum, just, keep -ing, penis, quite, to leave, traditional Japanese band of sandwich board advertisers, unconsciously, unintentionally, walking briskly). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

っぱなし (have been -ing, keep -ing, to leave). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: -ING

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gin.

Words within the letters "g-i-n"

-1 letter: in.

 Words containing the letters "g-i-n"
 

+1 letter: agin, ding, gain, gien, gink, gins, girn, grin, king, ling, nigh, ping, ring, sign, sing, ting, wing, zing.

 

+2 letters: acing, again, aging, algin, align, aping, awing, axing, begin, being, binge, bingo, boing, bring, cling, coign, cuing, deign, dinge, dingo, dings, dingy, doing, dying, eking, eying, fagin, feign, fling, fungi, gains, gamin, garni, genic, genie, genii, genip, giant, ginks, ginny, gipon, girns, giron, given, glint, going, gonia, gonif, grain, grind, grins, groin, hinge, hying, icing, incog, ingle, ingot, iring, jingo, kiang, kings, liang, ligan, linga, lingo, lings, lingy, lungi, lying, mingy, neigh, nighs, night, ohing, oping, owing, piing, pingo, pings, reign, renig, rings, ruing, segni, sengi, signs, singe, sings, sling, sting, suing, swing, thing, tigon, tinge, tings, tying, unrig, using, vying, wigan, wings, wingy, wring, yogin, zings, zingy.

 

+3 letters: aahing, abying, aching, acting, adding, ageing, agings, agnail, agnize, agonic, aiding, ailing, aiming, airing, algins, aligns, angina, anting, arcing, arming, ashing, asking, assign, auding, aweing, awning, baaing, bagnio, baking, baling, baning, baring, basing, bating, baying, begins, beings, benign, biding, biggin, biking, binged, binger, binges, bingos, biogen, biting, bluing, boding, boning, booing, boring, bowing, boxing, brings, busing, buying, caging, caking, caning, caring, casing, caving, cawing, ceding, cering, citing, clings, clingy, cluing, coding, coigne, coigns, coking, coming, congii, coning, cooing, coping, coring, cosign, coting, coving, cowing, coxing, coying, cringe, crying, cubing, cueing, curing, daring, dating, dawing, dazing, deigns, deking, design, dewing, dicing, dieing, diking, dinged, dinger, dinges, dingey, dinghy, dingle, dingus, dining, diving, doings, doling, doming, doping, dosing, doting, dowing, dozing, drying, duding, duking, duping, during, dyeing, dyings, dyking, earing, easing, eating, ebbing, eching, edging, egging, eloign, ending, engild, engine, engird, engirt, enigma, ensign, epigon, eringo, erring, eyeing, facing, fading, fagins, faking, faming, faring, fating, faxing, faying, fazing, feeing, feigns, feting, feuing, fifing, filing, finger, fining, firing, fixing, flings, flying, foxing, fringe, fringy, frying, fuming, fungic, fusing, fuzing, gabion, gaeing, gaging, gaijin, gained, gainer, gainly, gainst, gamine, gaming, gamins, ganoid, gaping, gaskin, gating, gazing, geeing, genial, genies, genips, genius, gentil, giants, gibbon, gibing, gibson, gieing, gingal, ginger, gingko, ginkgo, ginned, ginner, gipons, girned, girons, gitano, gittin, givens, giving, glints, globin, gluing, glycin, gneiss, gnomic, gnosis, goblin, goings, goniff, gonifs, gonion, gonium, goonie, goring, gradin, grains, grainy, gratin, grinch, grinds, gringo, grison, groins, guanin, guidon, guinea, gunite, guying, gybing, gyring, gyving, hading, haeing, haling, haring, hating, having, hawing, haying, hazing, hewing, hexing, hiding, hieing, hiking, hinged, hinger, hinges, hiring, hiving, hoeing, hoking, holing, homing, honing, hoping, hosing, hyping, icings, idling, ignify, ignite, ignore, iguana, imping, impugn, incage, incogs, indign, indigo, ingate, ingest, ingles, ingots, ingulf, inking, inning, irking, isling, isogon, jading, japing, jawing, jeeing, jewing, jibing, jingal, jingko, jingle, jingly, jiving, joking, jowing, joying, juking, keying, kiangs, kinged, kingly, kiting, knight, lacing, lading, laking, laming, lasing, laving, lawing, laying, lazing, leggin, legion, liangs, ligand, ligans, lignin, liking, liming, linage, lingam, lingas, linger, lingua, lining, living, logion, looing, loping, losing, loving, lowing, loxing, lubing, luging, lungis, lungyi, luring, luting, lyings, lysing, macing, magian, making, malign, margin, mating, mawing, maying, mazing, meting, mewing, mignon, miking, miming, mingle, mining, miring, mixing, mooing, moping, moving, mowing, muling, muring, musing, muting, naming, neighs, nidget, niding, nigger, niggle, nighed, nigher, nights, nighty, nilgai, nilgau, nixing, noggin, nosing, noting, nuking, oaring, offing, ogling, oiling, onagri, oohing, oozing, opting, orbing, origan, origin, outing, owning, pacing, paging, paling, paring, paving, pawing, paying, peeing, pidgin, pieing, pigeon, piggin, pignus, pignut, pigpen, piking, piling, pinang, pinged, pinger, pingos, pining, piping, plying, poking, poling, pongid, poring, posing, poxing, prying, puking, puling, racing, raging, raking, raping, raring, rasing, rating, raving, raxing, raying, razing, reagin, reding, regain, regina, region, reigns, renigs, resign, ricing, riding, riling, riming, ringed, ringer, riping, rising, riving, robing, roping, rosing, roving, rowing, ruling, ryking, saning, sating, saving, sawing, saying, seeing, sering, sewing, sexing, shying, siding, signal, signed, signee, signer, signet, signor, singed, singer, singes, single, singly, siping, siring, siting, sizing, skiing, skying, slings, sluing, soigne, soling, soring, sowing, spring, spuing, spying, stingo, stings, stingy, string, stying, swinge, swings, swingy, taking, taming, taping, taring, tawing, taxing, teeing, tewing, things, tiding, tieing, tiglon, tigons, tiling, timing, tinged, tinges, tingle, tingly, tining, tiring, toeing, toking, toling, toning, toping, toting, towing, toying, trigon, truing, trying, tsking, tubing, tuning, twinge, tyning, typing, tyring, umping, ungird, ungirt, unguis, unrigs, upping, urging, vagina, vexing, vicing, viking, vining, virgin, vising, voling, voting, vowing, wading, waging, waking, waling, waning, waring, waving, waxing, whinge, wifing, wigans, wigeon, wiling, winged, winger, wining, wiping, wiring, wising, witing, wiving, wooing, wowing, wrings, wrying, wyling, wyting, yawing, yogini, yogins, yoking, yowing, zinged, zinger, zoning.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: -ING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

2D 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

00101101 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#45 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

002D 0049 004E 0047

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

15434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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