RAGGING

  

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RAGGING

Definition: RAGGING

RAGGING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Rag

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "RAGGING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references)



Specialty Definitions: RAGGING

DomainDefinitions

Mining

A. The rough washing or concentration of ore or slimes on a rag frame b. In roll crushers, grooves cut in surface to improve grip on feed, and increase angle of nip. Also, in ore concentration in jigs, oversized bedding placed on jig screens. (references)

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

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Crosswords: RAGGING

Specialty definitions using "RAGGING": ragging markTO RAG. (references)

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Modern Usage: RAGGING

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Ragging (1973)

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

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Commercial Usage: RAGGING

DomainTitle

Books

  

Music

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

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Usage Frequency: RAGGING

"RAGGING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "RAGGING" is used about 12 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)75%9117,287
Noun (singular)25%3202,518
                    Total100.00%12N/A

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

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Expression: RAGGING

Expression using "RAGGING": ragging mark. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: RAGGING

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ragging

21

ragging water

20

bull ragging

18

paint ragging

11

painting ragging

9

ragging technique

7

off ragging

7

ragging wall

4

college ragging

3

faux ragging

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: RAGGING

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

Albanian

  

tërbim (exasperation, experience, furor, fury, hydrophobia, ire, lyssa, madness, rabies, rage, rampage, rampancy, rave, wrath). (various references)

   

Danish

  

valsemaerker (back end, collar marks, overfill, ragging mark, tail mark), indvielse (initiation, initiatory ragging). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ontgroening (initiation, initiatory ragging). (various references)

   

French

  

marque de cylindres (ragging mark), bizutage (initiatory ragging). (various references)

   

German

  

zerlumpend, Unfug treibend. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μαινόμενοσ (berserk, frantic), λύσσα (furiousness, fury, hydrophobia, lyssa, rabidness, rabies, rage). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ugratás (banter, chaff, josh, joshing, kid, leg pull, raillery, teasing). (various references)

   

Italian

  

impronta da intacca di cilindri (ragging mark), angheria (initiation, initiatory ragging). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aggingray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

zombaria (chaff, fleer, flout, gibe, gird, jeer, jibe, mock, mockery, persimmon, raillery, ridicule, scoff, slyness, sneer, sport), troça (flout, mockery, persiflage, phlegm, raillery, ridicule), mofa (jeer, mock, mockery, raillery, ridicule, scoff). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

дробление руды. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ribanje (rubbing, scour, scrub), grdnja (dressing down, gird, scolding, telling off, vituperation). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

burla (circumvention, derision, gag, gibe, jape, jeer, jest, jibe, joke, persiflage, scoff, scoffing, skit, sneer, takeoff, trick). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

rasering (demolition, destruction). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

нагінка, збиткування з новачків, дражніння. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: RAGGING

Derivations

Words ending with "RAGGING": ballyragging, bragging, bullyragging, dragging, fragging, outbragging, outdragging, scragging. (additional references)

Words containing "RAGGING": draggingly, fraggings. (additional references)


Misspellings

"RAGGING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cragging, Fragging, frugging, ragin, Ragini, reggiani, regnig, regoing, Roggin, rugging. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: RAGGING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-g-g-i-n-r"

-1 letter: gaging, raging.

-2 letters: aging, garni, grain.

-3 letters: agin, airn, gain, gang, giga, girn, gnar, gran, grig, grin, ragi, rain, rang, rani, ring.

-4 letters: ain, air, ani, gag, gan, gar, gig, gin, nag, rag, ran, ria, rig, rin.

-5 letters: ag, ai, an, ar, in, na.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-g-g-i-n-r"
 

+1 letter: bragging, dragging, fragging, garaging, gargling.

 

+2 letters: aggrading, beggaring, daggering, draggling, fraggings, regauging, retagging, saggaring, saggering, scragging.

 

+3 letters: aggressing, aggrieving, draggingly, earwigging, gangrening, mortgaging, niggarding, reengaging, staggering, straggling, swaggering.

 

+4 letters: aggravating, aggregating, aggregation, bedraggling, outbragging, outdragging, segregating.

 

+5 letters: aggrandising, aggrandizing, aggregations, arpeggiating, ballyragging, bullyragging, congregating, exaggerating, leapfrogging, pilgrimaging, remortgaging, staggeringly, swaggeringly, waterlogging.

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

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Alternative Orthography: RAGGING


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

52 41 47 47 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)

01010010 01000001 01000111 01000111 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#65 &#71 &#71 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0041 0047 0047 0049 004E 0047

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

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

52354141434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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