Capsizing

Definition: Capsizing

Capsizing

Noun

1. (nautical) the event of a boat accidentally turning over in the water.

Date "capsizing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1837. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Capsizing

Domain	Definitions
Transportation	When a vessel or ship turns upside down. (references)
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Crosswords: Capsizing

English words defined with "capsizing": outrigged. (references)

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Modern Usage: Capsizing

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	Baby I think I'm capsizing ("Sexual Healing"; performing artist: MARVIN GAYE)
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Commercial Usage: Capsizing

Domain	Title
Books	Investigation report on the capsizing of the pusher vessel Finn and the barge Baltic off Hanko on 27 December 1990 (reference) (more book examples)
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Image Slideshow: Capsizing

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Photo Album: Capsizing

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Capsizing off Ford Island, during the attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941, after being torpedoed by Japanese aircraft . Photographed from USS Tangier (AV-8), which was moored astern of Utah. Note colors half-raised over fantail, boats nearby, and sheds covering Utah's after guns.Credit: NAVY.
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Usage Frequency: Capsizing

"Capsizing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Capsizing" is used about 12 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)	75%	9	117,287
Noun (singular)	25%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	12	N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Capsizing

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
capsizing	4
capsizing cat fat	2
boat capsizing oregon	2
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Modern Translations: Capsizing

Language		Translations for "capsizing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		弄翻 (Capsize, Capsized, upsetting). (various references)

Danish		kaentring. (various references)

Dutch		kapseizen (capsize, turn over). (various references)

French		chavirement. (various references)

German		kenternd. (various references)

Italian		capovolgimento (overturning, reversal, upset). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		転覆 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		て�"ぷく (heavenly blessing, overthrow, overturn, turning over, upset). (various references)

Manx		goll bun ry-skyn (capsize), goll beeal fo (capsize). (various references)

Pig Latin		apsizingcay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Capsizing

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-i-n-p-s-z"
	-2 letters: piscina, scaping, spacing, spicing.
	-3 letters: anisic, casing, casini, icings, pacing, panics, pianic, siping, sizing.
	-4 letters: acing, acini, aping, aspic, cains, gains, icing, nazis, nipas, pains, pangs, panic, pians, picas, piing, pinas, pings, spang, spica, zincs, zings.
	-5 letters: agin, ains, anis, asci, cain, cans, caps, cigs, gain, gaps, gasp, gins, gips, inia, nags, naps, nazi.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-i-n-p-s-z"
	+2 letters: capsulizing.
	+3 letters: plasticizing, specializing.
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