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Definition: SLAUGHTERING |
SLAUGHTERINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Slaughter |
Date "SLAUGHTERING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | The killing of animals, especially for food. The process usually consists of stunning the animal to render it unconscious and insensible to pain, and then cutting the blood vessels in the neck, so the animal bleeds to death. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In developed countries, most slaughtering of animals is done in what is called the factory farming system.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Slaughtering."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Killing | Slaughtering; phthisozoics; sport, sporting; the chase, venery; hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing; pig-sticking; sportsman, huntsman, fisherman; hunter, Nimrod; slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SLAUGHTERING |
| English words defined with "SLAUGHTERING": meat packing, meatpacking, meat-packing business ♦ Slaughterman. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SLAUGHTERING": ACHILLES ♦ Butcher ♦ COOLER ROOM WORKER, cooling-system operator ♦ humane slaughter ♦ LIVESTOCK-YARD ATTENDANT ♦ moshgiach ♦ operating engineer, overseer, kosher kitchen ♦ REFRIGERATING ENGINEER ♦ Salmonella Food Poisoning, SHACKLER, stationary engineer, refrigeration, SUPERVISOR, ABATTOIR, supervisor, kashruth, SUPERVISOR, KOSHER DIETARY SERVICE, SUPERVISOR, POULTRY PROCESSING. (references) |
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Screenplays | And a year before, Nixon wasn't slaughtering Muskie, he was running behind Muskie, before Muskie self-destructed. (All the President's Men; writing credit: Carl Bernstein; Bob Woodward) And what if this suddenly lost all respect for us and started slaughtering us wholesale? (The Hunted; writing credit: Ed Anders) Into the minds of tired and hungry men on both sides, a flicker of doubt began to creep. Were they to go on slaughtering one another? (War and Peace; writing credit: Sergei Bondarchuk; Vasili Solovyov) The idea of slaughtering Americans well, it just turns my stomach. (Dreamcatcher; writing credit: William Goldman) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The killing gang at work. Method of slaughtering fur-seals On the killing grounds near the village, Saint Paul's Island Drawing by H. W. Elliott. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Slaughtering a bull, Grady County, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This exposure can result from the slaughtering or handling of infected animals or by touching contaminated meat during the preparation of food. Infection through aerosol transmission of RVF virus has resulted from contact with laboratory specimens containing the virus. (references) | |
Business | There is a large demand for complex processing equipment beyond simple slaughtering done for fresh markets. (references) | |
Economic History | Bulgaria | A shortage of fodder has led to distress slaughtering, raising questions about the adequacy of herds to feed the domestic population. (references) |
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| "SLAUGHTERING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 92.86% of the time. "SLAUGHTERING" is used about 42 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% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.14% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 42 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "SLAUGHTERING": sense-slaughtering. | |
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| 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 |
slaughtering | 13 |
animal slaughtering | 6 |
horse slaughtering | 5 |
chicken slaughtering | 5 |
pig slaughtering | 4 |
cow slaughtering | 4 |
slaughtering turkey | 2 |
cattle slaughtering | 2 |
hog slaughtering | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SLAUGHTERING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | å± æ€ (slaughter, Slaughtered, Slaughters). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | slagtning (slaughter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | slachten (butcher, slaughter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | teurastus (butchery, massacre, slaughter), teurastaminen (slaughter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | abattage (slaughter), abatage (slaughter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schlachtend (butchering), abschlachtend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σφαγή (butchery, carnage, massacre, slaughter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | penggorokan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | macellazione (kosher butchering, slaughter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 畜殺 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ã¡ãã•ã¤. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 학살. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | traartys (butchery, depredation, desolation, destruction, devastation, disaster, havoc, massacre, ravage, rout, slaughter), marroo (aground; deceased estate, assassinate, bag game; dead, bag; dead, butcher, deceased, defunct, departed, dispatch, dud, dull, dull of pain, exterminate, extinct; extermination, flat, flat mood, flat spot, glassy, glassy as look, inanimate, kill, kill off, killed, killing, lifeless, liquidate, liquidation, mortified, muggy, murder, slaughter, slaughtered, slay, slaying, sleeping, stagnant), haar (slaughter), buitchooragh (butcher, butchering, slaughter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aughteringslay abate (abate, felling, removal, slaughter, timber-cutting, tree felling). (various references) slacraich (beating), cosgairt. (various references) sacrificio (oblation, offering, sacrifice, slaughter, victim), matanza (battue, bloodbath, bloodshed, butchery, carnage, kill, killing, massacre, slaughter). (various references) slakt (slaughter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SLAUGHTERING" (pronounced slô"tering) |
| 5 | -ô" t er i ng | watering. |
| 4 | -t er i ng | administering, altering, bantering, bartering, battering, bettering, blistering, blustering, bolstering, catering, centering, chartering, chattering, clustering, cluttering, countering, doctoring, encountering, entering, factoring, faltering, festering, filibustering, filtering, flattering, fluttering, fostering, frittering, glittering, guttering, hectoring, lettering, littering, loitering, mastering, mentoring, metering, mitering, monitoring, motoring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neutering, pestering, petering, plastering, puttering, reentering, registering, scattering, sculpturing, sequestering, shattering, sheltering, shuttering, smattering, spattering, splintering, sputtering, stuttering, sweltering, teetering, tottering, tutoring, unflattering, uttering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | anchoring, angering, answering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, belaboring, beleaguering, bewildering, bickering, blundering, bordering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, censoring, clamoring, clobbering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doddering, embroidering, empowering, endangering, endeavoring, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, figuring, fingering, flavoring, flickering, floundering, flowering, foundering, fracturing, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glowering, grandfathering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, levering, lingering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, maundering, meandering, measuring, minoring, mirroring, mongering, mothering, murdering, murmuring, neighboring, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, quivering, recapturing, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scouring, severing, shimmering, shivering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, simmering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spiering, sponsoring, squandering, staggering, structuring, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, tempering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, towering, transpiring, triggering, uncovering, unwavering, ushering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, warmongering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, wondering, Wuthering, zippering. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-h-i-l-n-r-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: earthlings, gatherings, granulites, languisher, regulating, resaluting, slathering. | |
-3 letters: ashlering, athelings, earthling, gangliest, gathering, gauntries, gesturing, ghastlier, gnarliest, granulite, gruelings, grungiest, haltering, hungriest, ingathers, inhaulers, integrals, lathering, laughings, laughters, ligatures, litharges, lustering, narghiles, nargilehs, naughtier, reslating, restaging, resulting, retinulas, shearling, signature, slaughter, sleuthing, thirlages, triangles. | |
-4 letters: alerting, aligners, altering, alunites, angriest, astringe, atheling, auntlier. | |
| 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)53 4C 41 55 47 48 54 45 52 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .-.. .- ..- --. .... - . .-. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001100 01000001 01010101 01000111 01001000 01010100 01000101 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S L A U G H T E R I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004C 0041 0055 0047 0048 0054 0045 0052 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)534635554142543952434841 |
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