STAVING

  

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STAVING

Definition: STAVING

STAVING

Noun

1. A cassing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel.

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Stave

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "STAVING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)


Specialty Definition: STAVING

DomainDefinition

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.

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Crosswords: STAVING

Specialty definitions using "STAVING": Sibutramine. (references)

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Usage Frequency: STAVING

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)100%10111,207

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

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Modern Translation: STAVING

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

   

Spanish

  

desfonde (trench ploughing, trenching). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: STAVING

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).

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Rhyming with "STAVING"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "STAVING" (pronounced stā"ving)
4-ā" v i ngbehaving, braving, caving, craving, engraving, misbehaving, paving, raving, saving, shaving, waiving, waving.
3-v i ngabsolving, 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.

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Anagrams: STAVING

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.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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