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Definition: REPRIMANDING |
REPRIMANDINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Reprimand |
Date "REPRIMANDING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Russia | During the year, the Government was more active in preventing or reversing discriminatory actions taken at the local level, by more actively disseminating information to the regions and, when necessary, reprimanding the officials at fault. (references) |
Travel | Philippines | When reprimanding employees, take them aside and do it privately. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "REPRIMANDING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "REPRIMANDING" is used about 13 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) | 92.31% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 7.69% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "REPRIMANDING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 谴责 (Castigate, Castigated, Castigating, Condemn, Condemnation, Condemned, Condemning, Denounce, Denounced, Denouncing, reprimand, reprimanded). (various references) | ||||
French | réprimandant. (various references) | ||||
German | rügend (reproving). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 견책 (reprimand). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eprimandingray | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-i-m-n-n-p-r-r" | |
-3 letters: dampening, diapering, impending, ingrained, pandering, prearming, remaining, remanding, reminding, repairing, reprimand. | |
-4 letters: admiring, amending, arginine, deairing, draining, dreaming, grainier, imagined, imaginer, impaired, impairer, impeding, impinged, impinger, inarming, indamine, margined, meridian, midrange, migraine, nidering, parridge, rearming, renaming, repining, ripening. | |
-5 letters: admirer, aginner, amidine, angrier, armiger, damning, damping, darning, deaning, denarii, deraign, diamine, dingier, drainer. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 50 52 49 4D 41 4E 44 49 4E 47 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .--. .-. .. -- .- -. -.. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000101 01010000 01010010 01001001 01001101 01000001 01001110 01000100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E P R I M A N D I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 0050 0052 0049 004D 0041 004E 0044 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)523950524347354838434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Quotations: Non-fiction 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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