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Definition: REPLYING |
REPLYINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Reply |
Date "REPLYING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Crosswords: REPLYING |
| English words defined with "REPLYING": answer, answering ♦ respondent ♦ stoutly. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The Rebel forces under General Jackson advancing upon the Rappahannock Station at the river - National batteries replying to the Rebel artillery, August 23, being the commencement of the battles between Gens. Pope and Lee and Jackson, ending at Bull Run,.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Man opening shirt to reveal American flag tatooed on his chest; woman replying by lifting her shirt to show two peace signs tatooed on her chest.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | But there was no use in replying, as he had already vanished round the bend of the road. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Bahorel, replying to Bossuet, was just assuming a pet attitude. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The newsletter is a supplement to regular information that BTA makes available on request in form of published material or by replying to phone, fax and email enquiries. (references) | |
Travel | Philippines | Filipinos tend to be lax in replying to RSVPs. Telephone follow-ups are best, about three days before. (references) |
Netherlands | The "golden keys" of customary business is courtesy, especially replying promptly to requests for price quotations and to orders. (references) | |
Kenya | The principles of customary business courtesy, especially replying promptly to requests for price quotations and orders, are a prerequisite for exporting success. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "REPLYING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 98.92% of the time. "REPLYING" is used about 185 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) | 98.92% | 183 | 22,794 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.54% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.54% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 185 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "REPLYING": half-replying. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
replying | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "REPLYING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 回复 (rejuvenation, Replied, Replies, reply). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | beantwoording (answering). (various references) | ||||||||||
Esperanto | respondado (answering). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | Indication de message interpersonelle(IP)en réponse (Replying Interpersonal(IP)Message Indication). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | entgegenhaltend, antwortend (answering, responding), Antwort (answer, answer back, answering, reply, responds, response, response primitive). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 회답. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eplyingray отвечать на.....ответ на. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"REPLYING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: regluing, relyings, replien, Replin, reply'ing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "REPLYING" (pronounced ruplī"ing or rēplī"ing) |
| 6 | -u p l ī" i ng | applying, misapplying, supplying. |
| 5 | -p l ī" i ng | complying, implying, plying. |
| 4 | -l ī" i ng | belying, flying, lying, overflying, overlying, relying, underlying. |
| 3 | -ī" i ng | buying, crying, decrying, defying, denying, drying, dyeing, dying, eyeing, frying, indemnifying, prying, retrying, semidrying, shying, sighing, spying, tieing, trying, tying, undying, vying. |
| 5 | -p l ī" i ng | applying, complying, implying, misapplying, plying, supplying. |
| 4 | -l ī" i ng | belying, flying, lying, overflying, overlying, relying, underlying. |
| 3 | -ī" i ng | buying, crying, decrying, defying, denying, drying, dyeing, dying, eyeing, frying, indemnifying, prying, retrying, semidrying, shying, sighing, spying, tieing, trying, tying, undying, vying. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-n-p-r-y" | |
-1 letter: preying, relying, yelping. | |
-2 letters: gripey, linger, pinery, pinger, plying, prying, ripely. | |
-3 letters: eying, genip, girly, gripe, gripy, ingle, liger, liner, liney, lingy, lying, peril, piney, plier, plyer, reign, renig, repin, reply, riley, ripen. | |
-4 letters: gien, girl, girn, glen, gley, grey, grin, grip, gyre, gyri, inly, lien, lier, line, ling, liny, lipe, lire, lyre, pein. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-l-n-p-r-y" | |
+1 letter: pargyline, parleying, replaying. | |
+2 letters: overplying, pargylines, piercingly, pressingly, reapplying, replevying, superlying. | |
+3 letters: deploringly, impregnably, overplaying, panegyrical, potteringly, preachingly, presumingly, proselyting, redeploying, reemploying, reprovingly, resupplying. | |
+4 letters: depressingly, despairingly, glycoprotein, hyperlinking, interplaying, polymerising, polymerizing, pregnability, redisplaying, underplaying, whisperingly. | |
+5 letters: deprecatingly, electrotyping, glycoproteins, hyperbolizing, hypervigilant, oversupplying, panegyrically, penetratingly, perseveringly, prequalifying, proselytising, proselytizing, reproachingly, serpiginously. | |
| 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)52 45 50 4C 59 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .--. .-.. -.--. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000101 01010000 01001100 01011001 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E P L Y I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 0050 004C 0059 0049 004E 0047 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5239504659434841 |
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