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Definitions: NORTHING |
NORTHINGNoun1. The distance of any heavenly body from the equator northward; north declination. 2. Distance northward from any point of departure or of reckoning, measured on a meridian; -- opposed to southing. |
Date "NORTHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Military | Northward, that is, from bottom to top, reading of grid values on a map. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: NORTHING |
| English words defined with "NORTHING": Lunistice ♦ Southing. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "NORTHING": national grid coordinates. (references) |
| "NORTHING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "NORTHING" is used about 3 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) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | 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 |
easting northing | 4 |
conversion easting northing | 3 |
northing | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "NORTHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отклонение към север, пътуване към север. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | forandret nordlig bredde, abscisse i Gauss-Krüger system (equatorial distance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | equatoriale afstand (equatorial distance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | x-koordinaatti (equatorial distance), pohjoiskoordinaatti (equatorial distance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vers le nord (northerly), valeur de l'abscisse dans le système Gauss-Krüger. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Hochwert (equatorial distance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τιμή της οριζόντιας συντεταγμένης στο σύστημα Gauss-Kruger (equatorial distance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | 'x' koordináta érték, észak felé vezetõ út. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | progresso verso nord. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | twoaie-linney, goll lesh y twoaie (going northwards), goll gour y twoaie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orthingnay no extremo norte, valor de abcissa no sistema Gauss-Kruger (equatorial distance), afastamento para o norte. (various references) дрейф на север. (various references) ka severu (norwards). (various references) valor de la abscisa en el sistema Gauss-Krüger (equatorial distance), distancia ecuatorial (equatorial distance). (various references) abskissa i Gauss-Krüger-system (equatorial distance). (various references) kuzeye doğru katedilen mesafe, kuzeye doğru alınan yol, kuzey doğrultusu. (various references) відхилення на північ, нордова різниця широт, дрейф на північ. (various references) sự tiến về phía bắc. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "NORTHING": northings. (additional references) | |
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"NORTHING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: naethin, Northan, northen, northings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "NORTHING" (pronounced 'North"ing'): Abearing, Aboding, Agoing, Awanting, Away-going, Awning, Aworking, Baaing, Ballooning, Birding, Birthing, Bocking, Bolling, Bridgeing, Cannonering, Carking, Colling, Crefting, Deglazing, Derdoing, Dilluing, Dooring, Drearing, During, Easting, Elamping, Electro-engraving, Electro-etching, Electro-gilding, Emprising, Enchafing, Enerlasting, Eploring, Everduring, Everlasting, Everliving, Fairing, Falding, Fellow-feeling, firing, Flating, Fleaking, Fleming, flying, Foreholding, Gapesing, Ginging, Gloaming, grasping, Grinting. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: thorning, throning. | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-i-n-n-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: horning, nothing, tinhorn. | |
-2 letters: honing, intron, noting, righto, throng, toning, trigon. | |
-3 letters: giron, girth, griot, grith, groin, ingot, intro, night, ninth, niton, nitro, north, ohing, rhino, right, thing, thong, thorn, tigon, trigo. | |
-4 letters: girn, giro, girt, grin, grit, grot, hint, hong, horn, inro, into, iron, nigh, noir, nori, ring, riot, roti, thin, thio, thir. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-i-n-n-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: northings, thronging. | |
+2 letters: bethorning, dethroning, enthroning, inthroning, shortening, unthroning. | |
+3 letters: marathoning, overhunting, shortenings. | |
+4 letters: chlorinating, heterodyning, marathonings, nonbreathing, overhuntings, overnighting, overthinking, reenthroning, truncheoning. | |
+5 letters: anthropogenic, downrightness, gonadotrophin, housetraining, hydrogenating, hydrogenation, rehypnotizing, shortchanging, underclothing, undershooting, unforthcoming. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 4F 52 54 48 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. --- .-. - .... .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01001111 01010010 01010100 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N O R T H I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 004F 0052 0054 0048 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)4849525442434841 |
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