Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: POLING |
POLINGNoun1. One of the poles or planks used in upholding the side earth in excavating a tunnel, ditch, etc. 2. The operation of dispersing worm casts over the walks with poles. 3. The act of supporting or of propelling by means of a pole or poles; as, the poling of beans; the poling of a boat. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Pole |
Date "POLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | Marking with stakes the lines along which and/or the places where trees are to be set out in a planting area. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | In metal refining, stirring of molten metal in a furnace or ladle, particularly copper, zinc or tin, with a pole of green wood. It is thought that volatile substances in the green pole, along wit, reduce oxides. The metal is said to be right or under-or over-poled. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. The act or process of temporarily protecting the face of a level, drift, cut, etc., by driving poles or planks along the sides of the yet unbroken ground. Used esp. for holding up soft ground. See also:forepoling b. A step in the fire refining of copper to reduce the oxygen content to tolerable limits by covering the bath with coal or coke and thrusting greenwood poles below the surface. There is a vigorous release of reducing gases that combine with the oxygen contained in the metal. If the final oxygen content is too high, the metal is underpoled; if too low,overpoled; and if just right, tough pitch. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: POLING |
| Specialty definitions using "POLING": chog, cross poling ♦ head piles ♦ poling back, poling board ♦ sheeters, side piles ♦ tucking frame, tucking space. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "POLING" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Italian (polling). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Poling through the sand White 1 and 1/2 ton truck Astro party of C.V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Poling the marsh hay. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Indians poling up the Skeena River. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "POLING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 89.47% of the time. "POLING" is used about 19 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) | 89.47% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "POLING" 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 |
| Poling | Last name | 3,000 | 4,568 |
| 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 |
platforms poling | 7 |
platform poling | 4 |
canoe poling | 3 |
aquaculture poling | 2 |
poling | 2 |
bayou country louisianas paddling poling trailside | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "POLING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | poling, boelgning (blocking, boiling, plugging, waviness), afstikning af planterække (laying out, lining out, pegging, pegging out, staking out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | polen (Poland), ploeteren (paddle), uitzetten van plantrijen met jalons (laying out, lining out, pegging, pegging out, staking out), bloederen (blocking, boiling, plugging), blazen (blow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | poolaus, keitto (boiling, cooking, soup). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | piquetage, perchage, maclage, jalonnement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Polen (Poland, Poland (pl), polarize), Blasenlassen (blocking, boiling, plugging), Blasen (bladders, blisters, blow, blow on, bubble, bubbles, cystic, puff, to blow, to toot, toot, wind), Bülwern (blocking, boiling, plugging), Aufwallenlassen (blocking, boiling, plugging), Abstecken (define, mark out, peg, peg out, stake off, stake out, to define, work out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανάδευση με ξύλινο κοντάρι, αναβρασμός (blocking, boiling, fizz, plugging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | süveg, karózás, feszke (spreader), dongahajtás, dúcolás (timbering), cövekbeverés, cölöpözés (piling), bekerítés (encirclement, enclosure, envelopment, inclosure, roundup, surrounding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | picchettare (peg), trattamento al legno verde, tracciamento con picchetti (laying out, lining out, pegging, pegging out, staking out), bollitura (boil, boiling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | olingpay piquetagem (laying out, lining out, pegging, pegging out, setting out, staking, staking out), refinação (defecation, finery, finish, graffiti, refinement), fervur a (blocking, boiling, plugging), agitação do vidro em fusão para o tornar homogéneo (blocking, boiling, plugging). (various references) pertigado, marcar una plantación (laying out, lining out, pegging, pegging out, staking out), maclado (blocking, boiling, plugging). (various references) polning, utstakning (laying out, lining out, location, pegging, pegging out, setting out, siting, stacking, staking, staking out), kokning (boil, boiling, cooking, ebullition). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "POLING": pitchpoling. (additional references) | |
| |
"POLING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Paolino, piline, plooin, Pohlin, poing, Polan, poleg, Polenghi, polin, polino, pollin, Pollina, polyene, polyn, pooing, poping, Prolink, puing, Puligny, pulings, pulvini, pulvino. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "POLING" (pronounced pō"ling) |
| 5 | p ō" l i ng | polling. |
| 4 | -ō" l i ng | Bolling, bowling, cajoling, consoling, controlling, doling, enrolling, extolling, foaling, growling, holing, paroling, patrolling, rolling, strolling, tolling, trolling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | ailing, ambling, angling, annealing, appalling, appealing, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, Belling, bicycling, billing, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, bottling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chilling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, compiling, concealing, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doubling, dribbling, drilling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, excelling, expelling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, groveling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hilling, hobbling, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, instilling, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, Melling, middling, milling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, misspelling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, raveling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, settling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, thrilling, throttling, Tilling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, trilling, tripling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, willing, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yearling, yelling, yodeling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: loping. | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-l-n-o-p" | |
-1 letter: gipon, lingo, oping, pingo. | |
-2 letters: glop, ling, lino, lion, loin, long, noil, ping, pion, pong. | |
-3 letters: gin, gip, ion, lin, lip, log, lop, nil, nip, nog, oil, pig, pin, poi, pol. | |
-4 letters: go, in, li, lo, no, on, op, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-l-n-o-p" | |
+1 letter: eloping, looping, lopping, louping, pignoli, plowing, ploying, polling, pooling, sloping. | |
+2 letters: blooping, clomping, clopping, coupling, flopping, galoping, glopping, hoppling, longship, mopingly, pangolin, paroling, peopling, pignolia, pignolis, piloting, plodding, plonking, plopping, plotting, plotzing, policing, polkaing, poppling, posingly, prowling, slopping, spoiling, spongily, spooling, toppling. | |
+3 letters: compiling, complying, couplings, cupolaing, deploring, deploying, dolloping, employing, exploding, exploring, galloping, imploding, imploring, lolloping, longships, loppering, octupling, pangolins, pignolias, pillowing, pilotings, pistoling, plainsong, ploughing, poleaxing, polishing, pollening, polluting, polygenic, pommeling, pouringly, profiling, prologing, repolling, splodging, sploshing, spoolings, stoppling, upboiling, upcoiling, upflowing, upfolding, upholding, uploading, walloping. | |
| 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)50 4F 4C 49 4E 47 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- .-.. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001111 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P O L I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004F 004C 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)504946434841 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | tanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, dán, danese, dinamarquês, danés, dansk |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | hollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holland, olandese, holandês, holandés, holländsk |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finn, finlandese, finlandês, finês, finlandés, finés, finsk |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, francese, francês, francés, fransk, franska |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | tysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, alemão, alemán, tysk |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | græker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, grego, griego, grek |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | ungarer, Hongaarse, unkarilainen, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, húngaro, ungrare |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italiener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, italiensk, italienska, italienare |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, português, portugués, portugis |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | Spaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, espanhol, español, spanska språk, spansk |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | Zweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, sueco, svensk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, inglês, inglés, engelsk |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
