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Definition: TEMPORIZING |
TEMPORIZINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Temporize |
Date "TEMPORIZING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
Crosswords: TEMPORIZING |
| English words defined with "TEMPORIZING": Temporization, Temporizingly, To hear ill. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TEMPORIZING": temporize. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "TEMPORIZING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | Zeit gewinnend, abwartend (observant, waiting). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 一時逃れ (quibbling). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いっときのがれ (quibbling), いちじのがれ (quibbling). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | emporizingtay zamana uyan, zamana ayak uyduran, uygun zamanı kollayan, fırsatçı (opportunist, profiteer, pusher, temporizer, time server, timeserving). (various references) | ||||||||||
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Words ending with "TEMPORIZING": contemporizing, extemporizing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "TEMPORIZING" (pronounced te"mperī'zing) |
| 5 | -er ī' z i ng | authorizing, categorizing, characterizing, colorizing, computerizing, demilitarizing, memorizing, mesmerizing, polarizing, popularizing, reauthorizing, satirizing, summarizing, terrorizing, theorizing. |
| 4 | -ī' z i ng | advertising, aggrandizing, amortizing, analyzing, antagonizing, apologizing, appetizing, brutalizing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, centralizing, commercializing, compromising, criminalizing, criticizing, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, deemphasizing, dehumanizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, digitizing, downsizing, dramatizing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, exercising, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, formalizing, fraternizing, galvanizing, generalizing, harmonizing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immunizing, improvising, industrializing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, merchandising, minimizing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, organizing, oxidizing, paralyzing, patronizing, penalizing, personalizing, politicizing, prioritizing, privatizing, proselytizing, publicizing, rationalizing, realizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, reorganizing, revitalizing, revolutionizing, romanticizing, sanitizing, scrutinizing, securitizing, socializing, specializing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, subsidizing, supervising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, televising, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, unionizing, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, visualizing, womanizing. |
| 3 | -z i ng | abusing, accusing, advising, agonizing, amazing, amusing, appeasing, appraising, arising, arousing, blazing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, bulldozing, buzzing, carousing, causing, chastising, choosing, cleansing, closing, composing, comprising, confusing, cruising, decomposing, decriminalizing, defusing, devising, diffusing, disclosing, disguising, disposing, dozing, easing, enclosing, espousing, excusing, exposing, foreclosing, franchising, freezing, fusing, gazing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, hazing, hosing, housing, immortalizing, imposing, infusing, institutionalizing, losing, misusing, musing, nosing, oozing, opposing, overgrazing, overusing, paraphrasing, pausing, perusing, phasing, phrasing, pleasing, posing, praising, predisposing, proposing, quizzing, raising, razing, recusing, refusing, reimposing, reusing, revising, rising, Rosing, schmoozing, seizing, sensationalizing, sizing, sneezing, snoozing, squeezing, strategizing, supposing, surprising, teasing, uncompromising, unsurprising, uprising, using, victimizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-i-m-n-o-p-r-t-z" | |
-2 letters: erotizing, importing, optimizer, poetizing. | |
-3 letters: impetigo, impinger, meriting, mitering, optimize, orpiment, peignoir, pimiento, pointier, retiming, tromping. | |
-4 letters: emoting, epigoni, genitor, gimpier, gripmen, igniter, ignitor, impinge, impregn, imprint, interim, ionizer, ironize, iteming, metring, mingier, mintier, mitogen, mitring, perigon, perming, pierogi, pigment, pimento, pirogen, pointer, porting, primine, priming, prizing, promine, protein, rioting, ripieno, romping, temping, terming, termini, tiering, tropine, zeroing, zingier. | |
-5 letters: engirt, epigon, eringo, goiter, goitre, ignite, ignore, imping, impone, import, intime, ionize, mentor, merino, meting, minter, miring, mitier, monger, mopier, moping, morgen, norite, optime, opting, orient, origin, orpine, permit, pieing, pigeon, pinger, pinier, pinite, pirogi, pitier, pitmen, pointe, poring, potmen, potzer, protei, pterin, region, remint, riming, riping, roping, tieing, tiepin, timing, tinier, tiring, toeing, tonger, tonier, toping, trigon, trompe, tropin, zinger. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-i-m-n-o-p-r-t-z" | |
+2 letters: computerizing, extemporizing, temporalizing. | |
+3 letters: contemporizing. | |
+4 letters: nephrectomizing. | |
| 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)54 45 4D 50 4F 52 49 5A 49 4E 47 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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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)01010100 01000101 01001101 01010000 01001111 01010010 01001001 01011010 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T E M P O R I Z I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0045 004D 0050 004F 0052 0049 005A 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)5439475049524360434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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