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Definition: SUING |
SUINGNoun1. The process of soaking through anything. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Sue |
Date "SUING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Crosswords: SUING |
| English words defined with "SUING": Champertor ♦ Dispauper ♦ hypnopedia ♦ sleep-learning. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I am totally suing that Web site. (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette) I'm suing, I'm suing. (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) Feel like suing the station? (NewsRadio; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks) | |
Movie/TV Titles | I'll Be Suing You (1934) Suing Susan (1912) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Abie the agent. This is a subpoena - this "Spike" Slammer is suing you for the $10,000 reward money. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Honduras | Television reporter Allan Montenegro is suing the Security Ministry over the loss of an eye in an unprovoked altercation with a police officer in 2000. No action has been taken in the 2000 drive-by shooting of Radio Progreso news director Julio Cesar Pineda Alvarado, who suffered a head wound in the attack. (references) |
Human Rights | Zimbabwe | Mita stated that he was suing the Government for unlawful detention. (references) |
Russia | He since has resumed his research and was suing the newspaper Obshchaya Gazeta for slander on its reporting of his case. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | Meanwhile, doctors in West Virginia and Pennsylvania have to talk about striking because they can't afford their malpractice insurance to protect them from guys like Edwards who make money by suing whether the case has merit or not. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "SUING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.97% of the time. "SUING" is used about 197 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) | 97.97% | 193 | 22,089 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.02% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 0.51% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.51% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 197 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "SUING" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Suing | Last name | 130 | 59,903 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "SUING": counter-suing. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "SUING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Arabic | مقاضاة (bringing suit, proceedings, prosecution). (various references) | ||||||||||
Chinese | 起诉 (Prosecution, Sued). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | actionnant. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | verklagend. (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 提訴 (presenting a case). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ていそ (laying a cornerstone, presenting a case). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | "격. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | uingsay возбуждать судебное дело/. (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | conventio, conventione, conventionem, conventiones. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "SUING": countersuing, ensuing, issuing, overissuing, pursuing, reissuing, repursuing, tissuing. (additional references) | |
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"SUING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hsuang, huing, Nuang, puing, saing, sayng, seign, seing, shuang, Shuqing, soig, soign, soing, sping, squig, squing, sring, Subin, sueing, sueno, suin, suking, suni, sunin, sunit, sunng, suxing, sving, Tsuang, vuing, wuing, Zhuang, zoing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SUING" (pronounced suw"ing) |
| 4 | s uw" i ng | pursuing. |
| 3 | -uw" i ng | accruing, bluing, booing, brewing, canoeing, chewing, cooing, debuting, Dewing, doing, eschewing, hewing, overdoing, queuing, redoing, renewing, reviewing, screwing, skewing, spewing, stewing, subduing, tattooing, undoing, viewing, wooing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: using. | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-n-s-u" | |
-1 letter: gins, gnus, guns, sign, sing, snug, sung. | |
-2 letters: gin, gnu, gun, ins, nus, sin, sun, uns. | |
-3 letters: in, is, nu, si, un, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-n-s-u" | |
+1 letter: busing, dingus, fusing, genius, lungis, musing, pignus, sluing, spuing, unguis, unrigs. | |
+2 letters: abusing, amusing, anguish, audings, bluings, bousing, bushing, busings, busking, bussing, busting, busying, causing, congius, cursing, cussing, dousing, dusking, dusting, ensuing, fussing, guanins, guidons, guineas, guising, gunites, gunnies, gunship, gushing, gusting, housing, hushing, husking, igneous, iguanas, impugns, ingulfs, issuing, justing, lousing, lungyis, lushing, lusting, lutings, mousing, muggins, mushing, musings, mussing, musting, nilgaus, nursing, ousting, outings, outsing, pausing, pignuts, pulings, pulsing, pursing, pushing, reusing, rousing, rulings, rushing, rusting, saucing, shuting, souping, souring, sousing, spuming, subbing, subring, sucking, sudsing, sueding, sughing, suiting, sulking, summing, sunning, supping, surfing, surging, sussing, tousing, tubings, tunings, tushing, tusking, ungirds, unsight, unsling, uppings, upswing. | |
| 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. | |
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