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Definition: ECLIPSING |
ECLIPSINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Eclipse |
Date "ECLIPSING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1817. (references) |
Crosswords: ECLIPSING |
| English words defined with "ECLIPSING": Algol. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "ECLIPSING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 65.38% of the time. "ECLIPSING" is used about 26 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) | 65.38% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 30.77% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
eclipsing sun | 3 |
eclipsing binary | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ECLIPSING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 蚀 (ECLIPSE, Eclipsed). (various references) | |
Danish | fotometrisk dobbeltstjerne (eclipsing binary). (various references) | |
French | binaire éclipses (eclipsing binary), étoile double photométrique (eclipsing binary). (various references) | |
German | verfinsternd (obfuscating). (various references) | |
Greek | ψευδοδιπλός αστέρας (eclipsing binary). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 食連星 (eclipsing variable). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しょくれ"せい (eclipsing variable). (various references) | |
Korean | 가림 (shrouding). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eclipsingay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | estrela dupla fotométrica (eclipsing binary). (various references) | |
Spanish | eclipsado binario (eclipsing binary). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ECLIPSING" (pronounced ikli"psing or ēkli"psing) |
| 4 | -p s i ng | collapsing, lapsing, relapsing, traipsing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | accessing, acquiescing, addressing, advancing, affixing, amassing, annexing, announcing, assessing, balancing, basing, blessing, bouncing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, commencing, compressing, condensing, conferencing, confessing, conversing, convincing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, dancing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, denouncing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispensing, dispersing, displacing, distancing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enhancing, enticing, erasing, expensing, experiencing, expressing, facing, faxing, fencing, financing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, influencing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, Lancing, leasing, lensing, licensing, loosing, massing, menacing, mensing, messing, mincing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outdistancing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pronouncing, pulsing, racing, reassessing, rebalancing, recessing, redressing, reducing, referencing, refinancing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, renouncing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, seducing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, servicing, showcasing, silencing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, teleconferencing, tossing, tracing, traversing, trespassing, trouncing, unceasing, unconvincing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, videoconferencing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wincing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing. |
| 4 | -p s i ng | collapsing, lapsing, relapsing, traipsing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | accessing, acquiescing, addressing, advancing, affixing, amassing, annexing, announcing, assessing, balancing, basing, blessing, bouncing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, commencing, compressing, condensing, conferencing, confessing, conversing, convincing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, dancing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, denouncing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispensing, dispersing, displacing, distancing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enhancing, enticing, erasing, expensing, experiencing, expressing, facing, faxing, fencing, financing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, influencing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, Lancing, leasing, lensing, licensing, loosing, massing, menacing, mensing, messing, mincing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outdistancing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pronouncing, pulsing, racing, reassessing, rebalancing, recessing, redressing, reducing, referencing, refinancing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, renouncing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, seducing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, servicing, showcasing, silencing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, teleconferencing, tossing, tracing, traversing, trespassing, trouncing, unceasing, unconvincing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, videoconferencing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wincing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-g-i-i-l-n-p-s" | |
-1 letter: ceilings, penicils, piecings, speiling, spieling, splicing. | |
-2 letters: ceiling, cleping, inclips, lisping, peising, pencils, penicil, piecing, pilings, piscine, slicing, sliping, spicing, spiling, splenic, splenii. | |
-3 letters: clines, clings, genips, icings, incise, inclip, ingles, isling, lipins, pencil, pensil, pieing, piling, sileni, single, siping, spinel, splice, spline. | |
-4 letters: ceils, cines, cline, cling, clips, epics, genic, genii, genip, glens, icing, ingle, lenis, liens, lines, lings, lipin, nisei, peins, penis, piing, pilei, piles, pilis, pines, pings, plies, segni, sengi, sepic, sigil, since, singe, slice, sling, slipe, snipe, speil, spice, spiel, spile, spine. | |
-5 letters: ceil, cels, ceps, cigs, cine, clip, egis, engs, epic, gels, gens, gien, gies, gins, gips, glen, ices, isle, legs, leis, lens, lice, lien, lies, line, ling, lins, lipe, lips, lisp, nice, nils, nips, nisi, pecs, pegs, pein, pens, pice, pics, pies, pigs, pile, pili, pine, ping, pins, plie, sice, sign, sine, sing, sipe, slip, snip, spec, spic, spin. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-g-i-i-l-n-p-s" | |
+1 letter: pencilings, preslicing, resplicing. | |
+2 letters: pencillings, princelings. | |
+3 letters: specialising, specializing, supercoiling. | |
+5 letters: geopoliticians, sextuplicating. | |
| 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)45 43 4C 49 50 53 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)01000101 01000011 01001100 01001001 01010000 01010011 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E C L I P S I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0043 004C 0049 0050 0053 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)393746435053434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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