PRIZING

  

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PRIZING

Definition: PRIZING

PRIZING

Noun

1. The application of a lever to move any weighty body, as a cask, anchor, cannon, car, etc. See Prize, n., 5.

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Prize

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "PRIZING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)


Usage Frequency: PRIZING

"PRIZING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PRIZING" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: PRIZING

Language Translations for "PRIZING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

braekjern (jemmy, pinch bar, prizing lever). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

breekijzer (chisel, cutter's pliers, jemmy, nipper, pinch bar, prizing lever). (various references)

   

French

  

pince à levier (prizing lever), pince (prizing lever). (various references)

   

German

  

schätzend (appraising, appreciating, cherishing, estimating, rating, valuing). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

λαβίδα με μοχλό (prizing lever). (various references)

   

Italian

  

pinza a leva (prizing lever). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

賞美 (admiration, appreciatation, praise). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ã—ょã†ã³ (admiration, appreciatation, emergency, imminence, praise, rose, urgency). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

izingpray

   

Portuguese

  

unhas de alavanca (prizing lever). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ценить....вручение призов/. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

alzaprima (prizing lever). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: PRIZING

Derivations

Words ending with "PRIZING": apprizing, comprizing, disprizing, misprizing, overprizing, surprizing. (additional references)


Misspellings

"PRIZING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: phizzog, prising, Priskin, prizen, prizi, prizzi, promzina, Pruzine, rizing. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: PRIZING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-i-i-n-p-r-z"

-1 letter: riping.

-2 letters: iring, piing.

-3 letters: girn, grin, grip, ping, pirn, prig, ring, zing.

-4 letters: gin, gip, nip, pig, pin, rig, rin, rip, zig, zin, zip.

-5 letters: in, pi.

 Words containing the letters "g-i-i-n-p-r-z"
 

+2 letters: apprizing, spritzing, zippering.

 

+3 letters: aphorizing, comprizing, disprizing, misprizing, polarizing, pyrolizing, surprizing, vaporizing.

 

+4 letters: expertizing, overprizing, patronizing, pauperizing, picturizing, pluralizing, privatizing, prologizing, pulverizing, rebaptizing, temporizing.

 

+5 letters: bipolarizing, depolarizing, graphitizing, jeopardizing, parasitizing, pasteurizing, plagiarizing, polymerizing, popularizing, pressurizing, prioritizing, prizewinning, prologuizing, repolarizing, rhapsodizing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PRIZING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 52 49 5A 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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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 01010010 01001001 01011010 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#73 &#90 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 0049 005A 0049 004E 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50524360434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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