CHUGGING

  

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CHUGGING

Date "CHUGGING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references)


Specialty Definition: CHUGGING

DomainDefinition

Aerospace

A form of combustion instability in a rocket engine, characterized by a pulsing operation at a fairly low frequency, sometimes defined as occurring between particular frequency limits; the noise made in this kind of combustion. Also called chuffing, bumping. (references)

Military & Defense

The characteristic of some rockets to burn intermittently and with an irregular noise. Source: European Union. (references)

Nuclear Energy & Physics

Injection of steam(by accident or design)into a pool of subcooled water causes a quasi-periodic growth and collapse of bubbles known as "chugging". The steam generally forms a bubble in the pool and expands. There is then rapid condensation drastically reducing the pressure in the bubble which causes it to collapse. Almost instantaneously this creates pressure waves that propagate through the water and hit the walls of the containment. Repeated collapses, often several in a second, can cause significant structural loads. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: CHUGGING

Specialty definitions using "CHUGGING": chuffing. (references)

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Photo Album: CHUGGING

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Tractors chugging away in the polar sunset. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

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

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Usage Frequency: CHUGGING

"CHUGGING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 74.19% of the time. "CHUGGING" is used about 31 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)74.19%2372,767
Noun (singular)19.35%6143,867
Adjective (general or positive)6.45%2245,945
                    Total100.00%31N/A

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

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Expression: CHUGGING

Expression using "CHUGGING": steam chugging. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "CHUGGING": bud-chugging.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CHUGGING

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

chugging

8

chugging cum

5

beer chugging

4

chugging milk

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CHUGGING

Language Translations for "CHUGGING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

uregelmæssig forbrænding med uregelmæssig støj (chuffing). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ploffen (chuffing), hoesten (cough). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

rykiminen (chuffing). (various references)

   

French

  

combustion intermittente (chuffing), chouquage, choucage, toux d'une fusée (chuffing), ronflement (chuffing), halètement (chuffing). (various references)

   

German

  

puffend. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καύση με διαλείψεις πυραυλοκινητήρα (chuffing). (various references)

   

Italian

  

combustione irregolare (chuffing), rumorosit intermittente di scarico (chuffing), Implosione delle bolle di vapore (steam chugging). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uggingchay

   

Portuguese

  

crescimento e colapso brusco de bilhas de vapor no tanque de condensação (steam chugging), combustão irregular (chuffing), chuffing (chuffing), som das bolhas de vapor ao atravessarem água fria (steam chugging). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

combustión intermitente (chuffing), expulsiones periódicas (steam chugging). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: CHUGGING

Misspellings

"CHUGGING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chuging, Chungang, kegging, thugging. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "CHUGGING"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "CHUGGING" (pronounced khu"ging)
4-u" g i ngbugging, debugging, drugging, hugging, lugging, mugging, plugging, shrugging, slugging, snugging, tugging.
3-g i ngbagging, begging, binging, bogging, bootlegging, bragging, cataloging, cataloguing, clogging, demagoguing, digging, dogging, dragging, fatiguing, flagging, flogging, gigging, hogging, intriguing, jitterbugging, jogging, lagging, leapfrogging, legging, logging, nagging, pegging, plaguing, reneging, rigging, sagging, sandbagging, slogging, snagging, tagging, unflagging, wagging, zigzagging.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: CHUGGING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-g-g-g-h-i-n-u"

-1 letter: hugging.

-3 letters: cuing.

-4 letters: chin, chug, huic, hung, inch, nigh, unci.

-5 letters: chi, cig, ghi, gig, gin, gnu, gun, hic, hin, hug, hun, ich, ugh.

 Words containing the letters "c-g-g-g-h-i-n-u"
 

+4 letters: chugalugging.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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