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Definition: PREFACING |
PREFACINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Preface |
Date "PREFACING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Crosswords: PREFACING |
| Specialty definitions using "PREFACING": Greenlandman's Galley. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In prefacing the listing of promising new research areas, it should be noted that the Panel identified significant concerns about the nature of previous clinical research on dental caries. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "PREFACING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 92.86% of the time. "PREFACING" is used about 14 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) | 92.86% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "PREFACING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 序言 (Prefaced). (various references) | ||||
German | Vorwort schreibend. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | efacingpray | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | praefatio. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"PREFACING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: preaing, preaking, prefetching, refacing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-g-i-n-p-r" | |
-1 letter: capering, refacing. | |
-2 letters: anergic, caprine, carping, craping, creping, fancier, farcing, fearing, firepan, peacing, reaping. | |
-3 letters: apneic, arcing, cagier, caring, carnie, cering, cringe, earing, facing, fainer, farcie, faring, fiacre, fiance, finger, fringe, gainer, incage, infare, pacing, panier, paring, pincer, pinger, prance, prince, racing, rapine, raping, reagin, regain, regina. | |
-4 letters: acing, afire, anger, aping, areic, arpen. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-g-i-n-p-r" | |
+2 letters: repacifying. | |
+3 letters: preachifying, prefinancing. | |
+5 letters: prefabricating. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 52 45 46 41 43 49 4E 47 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. . ..-. .- -.-. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01010010 01000101 01000110 01000001 01000011 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P R E F A C I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0052 0045 0046 0041 0043 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)505239403537434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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