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Date "CAULKING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Transportation | To stop up and make watertight the seams of a boat or ship. Source: European Union. (references) |
Energy | Material used to make an air-tight seal byfilling in cracks, such as those around windows and doors. (references) |
| A material used to seal areas of potential air leakage into or out of a building envelope. (references) | |
Food & Agriculture | Forcing a quantity of calking material into the seams of the planks in a ship's decks or sides to make them watertight. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Burring or driving up the edges of iron or steel plates and sections along riveted seams to make them watertight. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Hauled out for repairs at the Williamstown Dockyard, Melbourne, Australia, in February 1865. Note Confederate flag (possibly retouched) flying from her mizzen gaff, and fresh caulking between her planks. Credit: NAVY. |  | Worker at turpentine still caulking barrels for resin, State Line, Mississippi. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Use window screens, chimney caps, and draft-guards beneath doors to attics, fill electrical and plumbing holes with stainless steel wool or caulking, and ensure that all doors to the outside close tightly. (references) | |
Business | Very good sales prospects exist for products under Harmonized System (HS) codes 69.08.00, 84.81.00, 44.07.00, 31.14.00, and 83.02.00. These products include glazed ceramic flags and paving, plumbing fittings and faucets, wood sawn or chipped, putty, caulking compounds, painters’ fillings, builders’ hardware and fittings, veneer sheets, indoor walls and floors. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CAULKING" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "CAULKING" is used about 5 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "CAULKING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 头. (various references) | |
Danish | stemning (mood), kalfatring (calking). (various references) | |
Dutch | omhameren (calking, hammering), koken (boil, cook), kalfatering (calking), kalfaten (calking), breeuwen (calk, caulk). (various references) | |
Finnish | tilkitys (calking), tilkitseminen (calking, luting up, make up, making up, mudding up), tilkintä (calking), tiivistys (condensation, packing, tightening), tiivistäminen (calking, compacting, compaction, impregnation, luting up, make up, making up, mudding up, rolling). (various references) | |
French | calfatage (calking), matage (calking). (various references) | |
German | abdichtend (sealing up). (various references) | |
Greek | καλαφάτισμα(κν.) (calking), καλαφάτισμα, σφυρηλάτηση των χειλιών (calking, hammering), σφυρηλάτηση των άκρων (calking, hammering), σφυρηλατή διάναξη (calking), διάναξη (calking). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אטימ" (closing, obstruction, obturation, stoppage), אטום (dull, impenetrable, impermeable, opaque, sealed, sealing, shut, solid). (various references) | |
Hungarian | duzzasztás (banking-up, bulge, calking of tubes, caulking of tubes, damming, gathering, pending, swelling). (various references) | |
Indonesian | gala (gala, pitch, resin). (various references) | |
Italian | cianfrinatura (calking, hammering), calcatura (calking, hammering), calafataggio (calking, hammering), presellatura (calking). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ゲリラ兵 (calking, caution, coach, coach's box, coaster, coat, coating, coda, coding, coding system, cogeneration, cogeneration system, Coke, Coke highball, coordinate, coordination, coordinator, corduroy, corkscrew, corselet, cortisone, course, course of study, course record, courseware, gel, gene, Gentzen, germane, germanium, guerrilla, lane marks, money, money pinch, ski slope, tennis court), 填隙 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | コーキング (calking), て"'き. (various references) | |
Korean | "킹. (various references) | |
Manx | yiarn jeenee (caulking iron). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aulkingcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | calafetagem (gasket), calafetação (calking), encalque (calking). (various references) | |
Spanish | calafateo (calk), retacado (calking, hammering, stemming, stemming material, tamping). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CAULKING": caulkings. (additional references) | |
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"CAULKING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Calkin, culking, waulking. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CAULKING" (pronounced kô"king) |
| 4 | -ô" k i ng | balking, chalking, gawking, Hawking, squawking, stalking, talking, walking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | antismoking, aching, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squeaking, stacking, staking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-k-l-n-u" | |
-1 letter: calking, cingula, lacking, lucking. | |
-2 letters: caking, calkin, cluing, glucan, lacing, laking, lingua, nilgau, uncial. | |
-3 letters: acing, algin, align, aulic, caulk, clang, clank, cling, clink, clung, clunk, cuing, kiang, liang, ligan, linac, linga, lungi, uncia. | |
-4 letters: agin, akin, anil, cain, calk, caul, clag, clan, gain, gaun, gink, glia, guan, guck, gunk, iglu, ilka, kagu, kail. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-k-l-n-u" | |
+1 letter: caulkings. | |
+2 letters: uncloaking. | |
+3 letters: backhauling, duckwalking, glucokinase, parbuckling, unshackling. | |
+4 letters: glucokinases. | |
+5 letters: blackguarding, laughingstock, multitracking, swashbuckling. | |
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