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Definition: INFERRING |
INFERRINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Infer |
Date "INFERRING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Crosswords: INFERRING |
| English words defined with "INFERRING": graphologist ♦ handwriting expert ♦ Inconcludent, Inconcluding ♦ Philosophical induction. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "INFERRING": interpolation of contours ♦ learning from examples ♦ Venereal Soup. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "INFERRING": infer. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Although randomized controlled trials provide a strong basis for inferring causality, other study designs such as those used in clinical epidemiology or outcomes research can also provide important insights regarding the usefulness of acupuncture for various conditions. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "INFERRING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "INFERRING" is used about 39 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) | 100% | 39 | 55,036 |
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 |
inferring | 4 |
connection inferring reading strategy visualizing | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "INFERRING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 推断 (generalise, generalised, generalize, generalized, Generalizing, infer, inference, Inferred). (various references) | ||||
German | folgernd (concluding, deducing, inferential). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | inferringay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "INFERRING": coinferring, misinferring. (additional references) | |
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"INFERRING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: infering, infring. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "INFERRING" (pronounced i'nfer"ing) |
| 5 | -n f er" i ng | conferring. |
| 4 | -f er" i ng | deferring, preferring, referring, transferring. |
| 3 | -er" i ng | blurring, concurring, demurring, deterring, incurring, nonrecurring, occurring, purring, recurring, slurring, spurring, stirring, whirring. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: infringer. | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-g-i-i-n-n-r-r" | |
-1 letter: fringier, infringe, refining, refiring. | |
-2 letters: finnier, ginnier, grinner, reining. | |
-3 letters: erring, finger, fining, firing, fringe, ginner, ringer. | |
-4 letters: feign, finer, firer, frier, genii, grief, infer, inner, iring, reign, renig, renin, rerig, rifer. | |
-5 letters: fern, fine, fire, firn, frig, gien, girn, grin, neif, nine, reif, rein, rife, ring. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-g-i-i-n-n-r-r" | |
+1 letter: infringers, refraining. | |
+2 letters: coinferring, fingerprint, interfering, reinforcing, reinforming. | |
+3 letters: birefringent, fingerprints, fraternizing, misinferring, reconfirming, refurnishing. | |
+4 letters: antiforeigner, birefringence, counterfiring, fingerprinted, foreordaining, intergrafting, overinforming, reconfiguring. | |
+5 letters: birefringences, fingerprinting, recentrifuging. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 4E 46 45 52 52 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)01001001 01001110 01000110 01000101 01010010 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I N F E R R I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 004E 0046 0045 0052 0052 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)434840395252434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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