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Definition: Clubbing |
ClubbingNoun1. A condition in which the ends of toes and fingers become wide and thick; a symptom of heart or lung disease. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "clubbing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1688. (references) |
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Medicine | A proliferative change in the soft tissues about the terminal phalanges of the fingers or toes, with no constant osseous changes. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A nightclub (often simply club, particularly in the UK) is any entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. Many times, it is associated with music (either with live musicians or music mixed by a DJ,) which can range from jazz or blues to electronic music styles such as drum and bass, house, trance or techno. In addition, the term is sometimes used to describe adult-entertainment venues.In the U.S. the repeal of Prohibition in February 1933 sparked the revival of nightclubs, which had gone underground, as 'speakeasies. In New York City, three famous midtown nightclubs from the 'Golden Age' were the Stork Club, El Morocco, and the Copacabana, while uptown in Harlem the Cotton Club was king. The first rock and roll generation didn't favor nightclubs, but the club returned in the 1970s as the "disco", from the French discothèque (although by the early 2000s, the term "disco" had largely fallen out of favor). Two early discos in New York were 'Le Club' and 'Regine's'.
Gatherings in nightclubs which primarily involve music mixed by a DJ involve dancing and in most cases alcohol. Illegal use of recreational drugs such as ecstacy is commonplace in many modern clubs.
Often there are light-effects such as many colorful lights, light going on and off, moving light beams, etc. One common item is a disco ball: a rotating football-sized ball at the ceiling, covered with many small flat mirrors, with a light beam directed on it; the reflections form a multitude of moving light spots on the floor and on the people.
Clubs are oftened advertised by the handing out of flyers on the street, in record shops, and at other clubs and events, they are often highly decorative and eye-catching.
Notable nightclubs include:
See also: rave
- Studio 54, New York, 1970s - 1980s, disco
- Paradise Garage, New York, pioneer of garage music
- The Hacienda, Manchester, United Kingdom, 1982 - 1997. Home to post punk, early acid house, Madchester and electronica
- The Limelight, was the name for two different clubs: one in London (1980s - 2003), the other in New York (? - late 1990s) home to goth, industrial, noise, and techno.
- The Slimelight, London, United Kingdom, (started in the 1980s). Notable London club, its name was a reference to the The Limelight and is a home to industrial, noise, techno and goth music.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nightclub."
Crosswords: Clubbing |
| Specialty definitions using "clubbing": Nails, Malformed. (references) |
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Music |
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 | Halibut dory and crew hauling the trawl Gaffing and clubbing the halibut Drawing by H. W. Elliott and Capt. J. W. Collins. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | The "Wangtown Bugle" sends its compliments and presents its clubbing list for 1895. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Clubbing" by Guenter M. Kirchweger Commentary: "People, clubbing, party." | "Subversive Clubbing" by Nikto Projekt Commentary: "Moon Light Nights september 03 - dj nikto - dj roger m - dj little kris." |
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Health | These include sinusitis (inflammation of the nasal sinuses, which are cavities in the skull behind, above, and on both sides of the nose), nasal polyps (fleshy growths inside the nose), clubbing (rounding and enlargement of fingers and toes), pneumothorax (rupture of lung tissue and trapping of air between the lung and the chest wall), hemoptysis (coughing of blood), cor pulmonale (enlargement of the right side of the heart), abdominal pain and discomfort, gassiness (too much gas in the intestine), and rectal prolapse (protrusion of the rectum through the anus). (references) | |
Human Rights | Libya | Methods of torture reportedly include: Chaining to a wall for hours; clubbing; applying electric shock; applying corkscrews to the back; pouring lemon juice in open wounds; breaking fingers and allowing the joints to heal without medical care; suffocating with plastic bags; depriving of food and water; hanging by the wrists; suspending from a pole inserted between the knees and elbows; burning with cigarettes; attacking with dogs; and beating on the soles of the feet. (references) |
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| "Clubbing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Clubbing" is used about 26 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) | 92.31% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 7.69% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "clubbing": by clubbing together ♦ clubbing together ♦ go clubbing. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "clubbing": euro-clubbing, golf-clubbing, mis-clubbing, night-clubbing, over-clubbing. | |
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| 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 "clubbing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | bashkë (both, by clubbing together, jointly, teamwise, together). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съдружие (partnership), слагане в обща каса, бой с тояга, болест по корените на зелката. (various references) | |
Chinese | 棍打 (Clubbed). (various references) | |
French | hippocratisme digital, hippocratisme, déformation en crosse, déformation en baguette. (various references) | |
German | schlagend (apt, bashing, battering, batting, convincing, dollying, flapping, hitting, percussive, pommeling, pummeling, slapping, slugging, socking, striking, telling, whacking). (various references) | |
Hungarian | összejövetel (assembly, bash, bee, consort, function, gathering, get together, party, reunion, rout, salon). (various references) | |
Korean | 때림 (spanking). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ubbingclay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | surra (dressing, drub, drubbing, flogging, lacing, lash, whipping), agressão com cacete. (various references) | |
Russian | избиение дубинкой. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zajednički (club: by clubbing together, common, community, joint, jointly, mutual, mutually, together), udruženim snagama (club: by clubbing together). (various references) | |
Spanish | ir de discotecas (go clubbing). (various references) | |
Swedish | slående tillsammans om (clubbing together), klubbande. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "clubbing": nightclubbing. (additional references) | |
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"Clubbing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chubbing, clibbig, clubzine, cubbing, Culbin, glubbing, slubbing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "clubbing" (pronounced klu"bing) |
| 4 | -u" b i ng | drubbing, dubbing, rubbing, scrubbing, snubbing, subbing. |
| 3 | -b i ng | absorbing, bobbing, bribing, curbing, dabbing, describing, disturbing, ebbing, gabbing, grabbing, hobbing, hobnobbing, jabbing, lobbing, nabbing, prescribing, probing, ribbing, robbing, sobbing, stabbing, subscribing, tabbing, throbbing, transcribing, tubing, webbing. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-c-g-i-l-n-u" | |
-2 letters: bluing, cluing, cubing, lubing. | |
-3 letters: cling, clung, cuing, lungi. | |
-4 letters: blin, blub, bulb, bung, club, glib, iglu, ling, lung, unci. | |
-5 letters: bib, big, bin, bub, bug, bun, cig, cub, gib, gin, gnu, gul, gun, lib, lin, lug, nib, nil, nub. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-c-g-i-l-n-u" | |
+4 letters: blockbusting, nightclubbed, nightclubber. | |
+5 letters: blockbustings, nightclubbers, nightclubbing. | |
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