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Definition: CLASPING |
CLASPINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Clasp |
Date "CLASPING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Crosswords: CLASPING |
| English words defined with "CLASPING": Amplectant, Amplexicaul, amplexicaul leaf ♦ blessed thistle ♦ embrace, embracing ♦ hand in hand, holy thistle ♦ Infibulation ♦ lady's thistle, leopardbane, leopard's-bane ♦ milk thistle ♦ Our Lady's mild thistle ♦ Silybum marianum ♦ To shake hands. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Don't just stand there clasping your hands in pain How about a round of applause for The Waco Kid? (Blazing Saddles; writing credit: Andrew Bergman; Mel Brooks) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Father Time crossing arms and looking angrily at woman clasping umbrella. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Angel standing clasping "pax" globe, boy fishing, and letter W. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | One was clasping about his ribs a torn flannel waistcoat, another complained monotonously as his beard stuck in the tufted weeds. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "CLASPING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 98.29% of the time. "CLASPING" is used about 117 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 98.29% | 115 | 30,138 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.71% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 117 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "CLASPING": flower-clasping, hand-clasping, Stem-clasping. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
clasping | 8 |
clasping hands | 3 |
clasping coneflower | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CLASPING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 扣紧 (Clasped). (various references) | ||||
German | umklammernd, klammernd (leeching, stapling). (various references) | ||||
Hebrew | צביט" (nip, nipping, pinch, pinching). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | aspingclay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Verbascum phlomoides L.. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "CLASPING": beclasping, enclasping, inclasping, reclasping, unclasping. (additional references) | |
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"CLASPING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: claiping, claping, Clasina, clayping. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: scalping. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-l-n-p-s" | |
-1 letter: caplins, inclasp, lacings, lapsing, palings, placing, sapling, scaling, scaping, spacing. | |
-2 letters: algins, aligns, caplin, casing, clangs, clings, glacis, lacing, lapins, lasing, liangs, ligans, linacs, lingas, pacing, paling, panics, plains, signal, spinal. | |
-3 letters: acing, algin, align, anils, aping, aspic, cains, clags, clang, clans, claps, clasp, cling, clips, gains, glans, glias, laics, lapin, lapis, liang. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-l-n-p-s" | |
+1 letter: capsuling, spackling, upscaling. | |
+2 letters: beclasping, collapsing, displacing, enclasping, escaloping, inclasping, misplacing, opalescing, reclasping, scalloping, spanceling, unclasping. | |
+3 letters: capsulizing, encapsuling, escalloping, landscaping, plangencies, playactings, spancelling, speculating. | |
+4 letters: backslapping, capitalising, plasticizing, pugnaciously, spacewalking, specialising, specializing, supplicating. | |
+5 letters: accomplishing, campanologies, campanologist, encapsulating, letterspacing, relandscaping. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4C 41 53 50 49 4E 47 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-.. .- ... .--. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001100 01000001 01010011 01010000 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C L A S P I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004C 0041 0053 0050 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3746355350434841 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , 'רמ ית, 'רמ י |
Hebrew | אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק | 西伯来, 希伯來語 , hebräisch, Hebräer, עברי, עברית |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch, א 'לית |
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