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Definition: FUSING |
FUSINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Fuse |
Date "FUSING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references) |
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Publishing & Graphic Arts | In the wet process, ink particles suspended in an electrolytic solution attach themselves to the charged areas of the copy paper, which is then squeezed dry. No -- is necessary. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: FUSING |
| English words defined with "FUSING": burned, burnt ♦ Dipyre ♦ fusion, Fussure ♦ glassy ♦ Hepar, Hepar antimonii ♦ Naples yellow ♦ Polychrest salt ♦ Salicylic, Speiss ♦ thermoplastic ♦ vitreous, vitrified ♦ weld. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "FUSING": aluminous abrasive, automatic lehr operator ♦ chopper feeder ♦ furnace clerk, furnace operator, FUSING-FURNACE LOADER ♦ group burner, machine ♦ heat treat worker ♦ LEAD BURNER, MACHINE, lehr attendant, lehr operator, lehr stripper, LEHR TENDER ♦ mca, monoclonal antibodies, monoclonal antibody technology, multifocal-button assembler, MULTIFOCAL-LENS ASSEMBLER ♦ programmable read-only memory ♦ Radiation Hybrid Mapping, refractory stone, roasting and reaction process, Roesler process ♦ sliver chopper, STAPLE CUTTER, stock cutter, synthetic ruby ♦ titanium carbide ♦ ULTRASONIC-SEAMING-MACHINE OPERATOR, Unified Modeling Language ♦ waste chopper. (references) |
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 | Shown is a lab technician filling wells with a liquid for a research test. This researcher is involved in preparation of cultures in which hybrids are grown in large quantities to produce a desired antibody. This is effected by fusing myeloma cell and mouse b-lymphocyte to form hybrid cell (hybridoma). Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Pictured is a technician's hand filling wells with a liquid for a research test. This test involves preparation of cultures in which hybrids are grown in large quantities to produce desired antibody. This is effected by fusing myeloma cell and mouse lymphocyte to form hybrid cell (hybridoma). Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
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Health | OXYCEPHALY is a term sometimes used to describe the premature closure of the coronal suture plus any other suture, or it may be used to describe the premature fusing of all sutures. (references) | |
A hybridoma can be produced by injecting a specific antigen into a mouse, collecting antibody-producing cells from the mouse's spleen, and fusing them with long-lived cancerous immune cells. (references) | ||
The lesion is generally diagnosed using histologic criteria of architectural disorder with asymmetry, subepidermal fibroplasia (concentric eosinophilic and/or lamellar), and lentiginous melanocytic hyperplasia with spindle or epithelioid melanocytes aggregating in nests of variable size and fusing with adjacent rete ridges to form bridges. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "FUSING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 71.70% of the time. "FUSING" is used about 53 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) | 71.7% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Noun (singular) | 28.3% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Total | 100.00% | 53 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "FUSING": Fusing point. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "FUSING": con-fusing. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "FUSING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | ç†"化 (fused, melted, melting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sammensmeltning (amalgamation, coalition, fusion, merger, sealing, welding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | versmelten (melt), lassen (weld), aansmelten (fusion, sealing, welding), aan elkaar smelten (fusion, sealing, welding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yhteensulatus (fusion, sealing, welding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fusion de l'image, soudure (fusion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Fixierung (des Druckbildes beim Laserdrucker), Verschmelzen (amalgamate, blend, coalesce, fuse, fuze, melt together, merge, round off, smooth, unify), Schweißen (bleed, solder, weld, welding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συγκόλληση με σÏντηξη (fusion, sealing, welding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | peleburan (coalescence, dissolving, fusing together, fusion, iron works, melting, merger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | saldare (balance, discharge, join, knit, link, link up with, pay, pay off, reckon up, settle, solder, Square, square up, strike, strike a balance, weld, welding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | éŽ"解 (melting), ç†"解 (melting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | よã†ã‹ã„ (apparition, demon, ghost, goblin, melting, monster, phantom, solution, spectre). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 융합. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | usingfay soldadura (brazing, welding), caldeamento (welding). (various references) soldadura (brazing, solder, soldering, weld, welding), cierre (choke, clasp, closing, closure, cutoff, fastener, fastening, grapple, locking, shutdown, zip, zip fastener, zipper). (various references) hopsmältning (fusion, joining, sealing, welding). (various references) eritme (dissolution, fusion, melting), erime (fusion, melting, thaw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "FUSING": circumfusing, confusing, defusing, diffusing, effusing, infusing, interdiffusing, interfusing, perfusing, refusing, reinfusing, suffusing, transfusing, unconfusing. (additional references) | |
Words containing "FUSING": confusingly. (additional references) | |
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"FUSING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: euesong, fasin, fasing, fessing, foing, Fsyn, Fucine, fucini, Fusina, fusino, fussin, fussings, futsing, Fuxin, fuzzing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FUSING" (pronounced fyuw"zing) |
| 6 | f y uw" z i ng | confusing, defusing, diffusing, infusing, refusing. |
| 5 | -y uw" z i ng | abusing, accusing, amusing, excusing, misusing, musing, overusing, recusing, reusing, using. |
| 4 | -uw" z i ng | boozing, bruising, choosing, cruising, losing, oozing, perusing, schmoozing, snoozing. |
| 3 | -z i ng | advertising, advising, aggrandizing, agonizing, amazing, amortizing, analyzing, antagonizing, apologizing, appeasing, appetizing, appraising, arising, arousing, authorizing, blazing, bowsing, browsing, brutalizing, bulldozing, buzzing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, carousing, categorizing, causing, centralizing, characterizing, chastising, cleansing, closing, colorizing, commercializing, composing, comprising, compromising, computerizing, criminalizing, criticizing, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, decomposing, decriminalizing, deemphasizing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, devising, digitizing, disclosing, disguising, disposing, downsizing, dozing, dramatizing, easing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, enclosing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, espousing, exercising, exposing, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, foreclosing, formalizing, franchising, fraternizing, freezing, galvanizing, gazing, generalizing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, harmonizing, hazing, hosing, housing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immortalizing, immunizing, imposing, improvising, industrializing, institutionalizing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, nosing, opposing, organizing, overgrazing, oxidizing, paralyzing, paraphrasing, patronizing, pausing, penalizing, personalizing, phasing, phrasing, pleasing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, posing, praising, predisposing, prioritizing, privatizing, proposing, proselytizing, publicizing, quizzing, raising, rationalizing, razing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, reimposing, reorganizing, revising, revitalizing, revolutionizing, rising, romanticizing, Rosing, sanitizing, satirizing, scrutinizing, securitizing, seizing, sensationalizing, sizing, sneezing, socializing, specializing, squeezing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, strategizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, supposing, surprising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, teasing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, uncompromising, unionizing, unsurprising, uprising, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, victimizing, visualizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing, womanizing. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-i-n-s-u" | |
-1 letter: fungi, suing, using. | |
-2 letters: figs, fins, fugs, funs, gins, gnus, guns, sign, sing, snug, sung. | |
-3 letters: fig, fin, fug, fun, gin, gnu, gun, ifs, ins, nus, sin, sun, uns. | |
-4 letters: if, in, is, nu, si, un, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-i-n-s-u" | |
+1 letter: fussing, ingulfs, surfing. | |
+2 letters: defusing, effusing, flushing, flutings, focusing, foulings, fungoids, furrings, gunfires, infusing, lungfish, refusing, scuffing, sluffing, snafuing, snuffing, stuffing, surfings, upflings. | |
+3 letters: confusing, diffusing, figulines, figurants, figurines, fissuring, focussing, fumigants, fungibles, gunfights, gunflints, perfusing, purflings, scuffling, shuffling, snuffling, stuffings, suffering, sufficing, suffixing, suffusing, sulfating, sulfuring, surfacing. | |
+4 letters: ausforming, configures, defocusing, flouncings, fluidising, flustering, foundlings, fuliginous, fungicides, furbishing, furnishing, groundfish, insightful, justifying, lungfishes, nidifugous, outfasting, outfishing, refocusing, reinfusing, restuffing, russifying, stupefying, sufferings, sufflating, surfacings, surfeiting, turfskiing, unshifting, upshifting. | |
| 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)46 55 53 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. ..- ... .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01010101 01010011 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F U S I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0055 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)405553434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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