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Definition: DINNING |
DINNINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Din |
Date "DINNING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well couldn't a few of you go into the bar or dinning room I mean use your imagination? (Fawlty Towers; writing credit: John Cleese; Connie Booth) | |
Song Titles | Teen Angel (performing artist: Mark Dinning) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Imported items from Italy include mainly sitting rooms, coffee and end tables, dinning tables and bedroom sets. American companies must also compete with imports from East Asian countries. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DINNING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 40.00% of the time. "DINNING" 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "DINNING" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Dinning | Last name | 130 | 57,595 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "DINNING": dinning-hall. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DINNING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | dröhend. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | inningday столовая (canteen, cook-shop, dining room, dining-room, dinning-car-room, eatery, mess, mess hall, ordinary, refectory), вагон-ресторан (diner, dining car, dinning-car, train dining car). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"DINNING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: danang, Da-nang, daning, Dannan, dening, Dennings, denving, dinant, dineing, dinin, Donnini, Donnino, Drinnon, Dunnings, ninnin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DINNING" (pronounced di"ning) |
| 4 | -i" n i ng | beginning, binning, finning, ginning, grinning, inning, pinning, sinning, spinning, thinning, winning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abandoning, abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, apportioning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, bemoaning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, glistening, governing, greening, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-i-i-n-n-n" | |
-1 letter: dining, indign, inning, niding. | |
-3 letters: ding, nidi. | |
-4 letters: dig, din, gid, gin, inn. | |
-5 letters: id, in. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-i-i-n-n-n" | |
+2 letters: enwinding, indenting, indignant, intending, inwinding, unbinding, unwinding. | |
+3 letters: denizening, enkindling, inbounding, inundating, nonbinding. | |
+4 letters: bindingness, dingdonging, indenturing, indignantly, indignation, innuendoing, nonbuilding, nondividing, nondrinking, underlining, undermining, undesigning, windburning. | |
+5 letters: antispending, breadwinning, conditioning, denominating, dimensioning, disannulling, disinclining, handwringing, incandescing, indemnifying, indigenizing, indignations, interlending, nonbuildings, nonoxidizing, sandpainting, underpinning. | |
| 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)44 49 4E 4E 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. -. -. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01001001 01001110 01001110 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D I N N I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0049 004E 004E 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)38434848434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Images: Slideshow 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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