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Definition: CULMINATING |
CULMINATINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Culminate |
Date "CULMINATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Summit | Noun: summit, summity; top, peak, vertex, apex, zenith, pinnacle, acme, culmination, meridian, utmost height, ne plus utra, height, pitch, maximum, climax, culminating point, crowning point, turning point; turn of the tide, fountain head; water shed, water parting; sky, pole. |
Adjective: highest; (high; ); top; top most, upper most; tiptop; culminating; Verb: meridian, meridional; capital, head, polar, supreme, supernal, topgallant. | |
Superiority | Supreme, greatest, utmost, paramount, preeminent, foremost, crowning; first-rate; (important), (excellent); unrivaled peerless, matchless; none such, second to none, sans pareil; unparagoned, unparalleled, unequalled, unapproached, unsurpassed; superlative, inimitable facile princeps, incomparable, sovereign, without parallel, nulli secundus, ne plus ultra; beyond compare, beyond comparison; culminating; (topmost); transcendent, transcendental;plus royaliste que le Roi, more catholic than the Pope |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CULMINATING |
| English words defined with "CULMINATING": broad ♦ crown ♦ full ♦ Moon-culminating ♦ score, sexual conquest ♦ top. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CULMINATING": Administrative Record ♦ Butterfly ♦ neuro-circulatory collapse, Neutrophil Activation. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The ideal is nothing more nor less than the culminating point of logic, even as the beautiful is nothing more nor less than the summit of the true. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Papua New Guinea | There are several levels, culminating in the Supreme Court. (references) |
China | The plenum also decided to accelerate the pace of legal reform, culminating in the passage of several new legal codes by the National People's Congress in June 1979. (references) | |
China | In early 1998, the Chinese government started implementing a series of strict controls over this industry, culminating in the re-licensing of all direct selling companies. (references) | |
Political Economy | Argentina | On the other hand, the public's memory of decades of increasing economic chaos culminating in the hyper-inflationary episodes of 1989-90 is still vivid. (references) |
PHILIPPINES | Culminating a month-long effort of intense lobbying to get legislators and the private sector onboard, President Macapagal-Arroyo signed an anti-money laundering law on the eve of the September 30 Financial Action Task Force deadline for passage of legislation, holding off likely FATF countermeasures. (references) | |
ECUADOR | The government also entered into negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), culminating in a 12-month Standby Agreement with the Fund, which has been extended through the end of 2001. Additional policy initiatives include efforts to: reduce the government's fiscal deficit, implement structural reforms to strengthen the banking system, and restructure Ecuador's external debt. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CULMINATING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 94.59% of the time. "CULMINATING" is used about 370 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) | 94.59% | 350 | 15,269 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.41% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Total | 100.00% | 370 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "CULMINATING": culminating point. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "CULMINATING": Moon-culminating. | |
| 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 |
activity culminating | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CULMINATING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 达到高潮 (Culminate, Culminated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kulminationspunkt (culminating point, point of culmination). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | culminatiepunt (culminating point, culmination, point of culmination). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kulminaatiopiste (culminating point, point of culmination). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | point de culmination (culminating point, point of culmination). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kulminierend (climactic, climactically), gipfelnd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | culminante (meridian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 남중. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ulminatingcay ponto de culminação (culminating point, point of culmination), ponto alto (culminating point, highlight), apogeu (acme, apex, climax, height, heyday, meridian, pinnacle, prime, zenith). (various references) culminant (climactic, critical, culminant, highest). (various references) punto de culminación (culminating point). (various references) kulminationspunkt (culminating point, point of culmination). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"CULMINATING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: calcinating, cluminating. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CULMINATING" (pronounced ku"lmunā'ting) |
| 7 | -m u n ā' t i ng | contaminating, discriminating, disseminating, dominating, eliminating, emanating, exterminating, illuminating, incriminating, laminating, nominating, predominating, terminating. |
| 6 | -u n ā' t i ng | alienating, assassinating, chlorinating, coordinating, decaffeinating, detonating, fascinating, hydrogenating, impersonating, originating, procrastinating, rejuvenating, resonating, subordinating, urinating. |
| 5 | -n ā' t i ng | alternating, designating, donating, stagnating. |
| 4 | -ā' t i ng | abbreviating, abdicating, abrogating, accelerating, accentuating, accommodating, accumulating, activating, adjudicating, administrating, advocating, affiliating, aggravating, agitating, alleviating, allocating, anticipating, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, articulating, assimilating, associating, authenticating, automating, calculating, captivating, castigating, castrating, celebrating, circulating, coagulating, collaborating, commemorating, communicating, compensating, complicating, concentrating, confiscating, congratulating, consolidating, consummating, contemplating, cooperating, corroborating, cultivating, debilitating, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, degenerating, delegating, deliberating, delineating, demonstrating, denigrating, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deteriorating, devastating, dictating, differentiating, disintegrating, dissipating, domesticating, duplicating, educating, elaborating, electroplating, elevating, emigrating, emulating, encapsulating, enunciating, equivocating, eradicating, escalating, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, exacerbating, exaggerating, exasperating, excavating, excoriating, excruciating, exhilarating, exonerating, extenuating, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fluctuating, formulating, frustrating, generating, graduating, gravitating, gyrating, hesitating, humiliating, illustrating, imitating, implicating, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, incorporating, incubating, indicating, infatuating, infiltrating, infuriating, ingratiating, initiating, instigating, insulating, integrating, interrogating, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, investigating, invigorating, irritating, isolating, legislating, levitating, liberating, liquidating, litigating, locating, lubricating, mandating, manipulating, masturbating, mediating, meditating, migrating, misappropriating, mitigating, moderating, motivating, mutilating, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negotiating, nitrating, nonoperating, obliterating, obviating, officiating, operating, orchestrating, oscillating, overestimating, overstating, participating, penetrating, percolating, permeating, perpetrating, perpetuating, placating, pontificating, populating, precipitating, prognosticating, proliferating, promulgating, propagating, pulsating, radiating, reactivating, reallocating, recalculating, reciprocating, recreating, recuperating, redecorating, reevaluating, regenerating, regulating, rehabilitating, reincorporating, reinvigorating, reiterating, relegating, renegotiating, renovating, repatriating, replicating, repudiating, resuscitating, retaliating, reverberating, rotating, salivating, saturating, segregating, separating, simulating, speculating, stimulating, stipulating, suffocating, syndicating, tabulating, titillating, tolerating, underestimating, understating, undulating, vacillating, validating, ventilating. |
| 3 | -t i ng | abating, abducting, abetting, aborting, abutting, accenting, accepting, accosting, accounting, accrediting, acquitting, acting, adapting, addicting, adjusting, admitting, adopting, affecting, afflicting, airlifting, alerting, allotting, amounting, annotating, appointing, arresting, assaulting, asserting, assisting, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, carpeting, carting, casting, catapulting, cavorting, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commenting, committing, commuting, competing, complementing, completing, complimenting, composting, computing, concocting, conducting, conflicting, confronting, connecting, consenting, consisting, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, contacting, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, decanting, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, deleting, delighting, delisting, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deserting, destructing, detecting, detracting, devoting, dieting, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, disgusting, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, dissenting, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, dusting, eating, editing, effecting, elating, electing, eliciting, emitting, enacting, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, equating, erecting, erupting, escorting, everlasting, evicting, exacting, exalting, excepting, exciting, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhorting, existing, exiting, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extorting, extracting, extraditing, fainting, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, grafting, granting, grating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, hunting, hurting, igniting, impacting, imparting, implanting, implementing, importing, imprinting, inciting, indicting, infecting, infighting, inflating, inflicting, ingesting, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instituting, instructing, insulting, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrupting, intersecting, inventing, investing, inviting, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, lasting, letting, lifting, lighting, limiting, listing, looting, lusting, malting, manifesting, marketing, marting, mating, matting, meeting, melting, minting, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, mounting, mutating, muting, negating, neglecting, nesting, netting, nonbiting, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obstructing, offsetting, omitting, opting, orbiting, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, perfecting, permitting, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, porting, posting, pouting, predicting, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, profiting, prohibiting, projecting, promoting, prompting, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, readjusting, reasserting, rebutting, recanting, recasting, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recruiting, redacting, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regretting, reigniting, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, rejecting, relating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renting, repainting, repeating, replanting, reporting, representing, reprinting, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotting, rusting, salting, saluting, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, selecting, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, starting, stating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, toasting, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underreporting, underwriting, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, vacating, vaulting, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-i-l-m-n-n-t-u" | |
-2 letters: anticling, culminant. | |
-3 letters: actinium, aluminic, claiming, inguinal, inlacing, maculing, mannitic, mantling, miauling, minutial, minuting, mulcting, mutining, unlacing. | |
-4 letters: alining, antigun, augitic, calming, canting, catling, cingula, culming, intagli, intimal, lancing, limning, lunatic, lunting, mailing, malting, mauling, milting, mincing, minting, minutia, munting, nailing, nautili, tailing, talcing, uncinal, uniting. | |
-5 letters: acting, ailing, aiming, alumin, alumni, aminic, anilin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-i-l-m-n-n-t-u" | |
+1 letter: calumniating. | |
+3 letters: malfunctioning. | |
+4 letters: counterclaiming. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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