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Definition: STAVING |
STAVINGNoun1. A cassing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Stave |
Date "STAVING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Transportation | Breaking of the narrow iron plates placed edge to edge to form the sides, coverings or linings of a vessel or structure. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: STAVING |
| Specialty definitions using "STAVING": Sibutramine. (references) |
| "STAVING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "STAVING" is used about 10 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) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "STAVING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Dutch | ingedeukt. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | défoncement. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | einschlagend (driving in). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | σπάσιμο (breakage, breakdown, crash, fracture, rupture, smash), ξεπάτωμα, μπάσιμο (shrinking), τσάκισμα. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | rifollatura. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | avingstay desfonde (trench ploughing, trenching). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"STAVING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Estaing, estivant, Istavan, savini, savino, scavving, scavvying, stavings, swaving. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "STAVING" (pronounced stā"ving) |
| 4 | -ā" v i ng | behaving, braving, caving, craving, engraving, misbehaving, paving, raving, saving, shaving, waiving, waving. |
| 3 | -v i ng | absolving, achieving, approving, arriving, believing, calving, caregiving, carving, conceiving, conniving, conserving, curving, deceiving, delving, depriving, deriving, deserving, disapproving, disbelieving, dissolving, diving, driving, earthmoving, evolving, forgiving, giving, grieving, halving, having, heaving, improving, interleaving, interweaving, involving, jiving, leaving, lifesaving, living, loving, misgiving, moving, observing, perceiving, preserving, proving, receiving, relieving, reliving, removing, reserving, resolving, retrieving, reviving, revolving, revving, serving, shelving, shoving, sieving, skydiving, solving, starving, striving, surviving, thanksgiving, thieving, thriving, unbelieving, undeserving, unforgiving, unnerving, unswerving, weaving. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-s-t-v" | |
-1 letter: gainst, giants, sating, saving. | |
-2 letters: agist, angst, antis, gains, gaits, giant, gnats, saint, satin, savin, staig, stain, stang, sting, tains, tangs, tings, vangs, vigas, vinas, vista. | |
-3 letters: agin, ains, aits, anis, anti, ants, gain, gait, gast, gats, gins, gist, gits, gnat, nags, nits, sain, sang, sati, sign, sing, snag, snit, stag, tags, tain. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-s-t-v" | |
+1 letter: starving, vintages. | |
+2 letters: agentives, galivants, gravitons, grievants, navigates, negatives, solvating, vaginitis, vaultings, vintagers. | |
+3 letters: estivating, evangelist, gallivants, harvesting, navigators, negativism, negativist, salivating, starveling, stravaging, timesaving, traversing, vagotonias, vesicating, vigilantes, vitalising. | |
+4 letters: advertising, aestivating, designative, devastating, divagations, evangelists, everlasting, instigative, invaginates, investigate, invigilates, invigorates, levigations, navigations, negativisms, negativists, outsavoring, overcasting, oversalting, overstating, overstaying, overtasking, passivating, privatising, starvelings, stravaiging, travestying, vaginitides, vanguardist, vegetarians, vegetations, vigilantism, virginalist. | |
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