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Definition: ABRADING |
ABRADINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Abrade |
Crosswords: ABRADING |
| English words defined with "ABRADING": abrading stone ♦ bray ♦ chafe, comminute, crunch ♦ grind ♦ mash ♦ Polishing wheel. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ABRADING": abraded yarn ♦ BED RUBBER ♦ DEFLASH AND WASH OPERATOR, DIE BARBER, DIE-TRY-OUT WORKER, STAMPING, drill sharpener, DRILL-BIT SHARPENER ♦ LEAD WORKER, WAFER PRODUCTION, LEVEL-VIAL INSIDE GRINDER ♦ POLISHING MACHINE TENDER ♦ Regulated Asbestos-Containing Material ♦ taber abraser ♦ WAFER ABRADING MACHINE TENDER. (references) |
| "ABRADING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "ABRADING" is used about 3 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) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ABRADING": abrading agent ♦ abrading stone. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
abrading | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ABRADING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 磨蚀 (Abrade, Abraded, Abrasion, Abrasive). (various references) | |
Danish | slibevirkning (abrading action), slibeflade (abrading surface), slibeanordningens drejeskive (turntable of the abrading instrument). (various references) | |
Dutch | schurend oppervlak (abrading surface), draaischijf van de slijtinrichting (turntable of the abrading instrument). (various references) | |
French | surface abrasive (abrading surface), plateau tournant du dispositif d'abrasion (turntable of the abrading instrument). (various references) | |
German | abreibend (abrasively, rubbing off, towelling). (various references) | |
Greek | εκτριβών, εκτριβή (abrasion), λιαίνων, λειαντικόσ (abrasive, lubricant, lubricative), τριβικόσ, τριβή (abrasion, attrition, frazzle, friction, rubbing, wear). (various references) | |
Italian | irritante (aggravating, annoying, grating, irritant, irritating, irritative, nervy, provoking, shocking, vexatious). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abradingay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | acção abrasiva (abrading action), superfície abrasiva (abrading surface), disco giratório do dispositivo de abrasão (turntable of the abrading instrument). (various references) | |
Spanish | raspando. (various references) | |
Swedish | avnötning (wearing off). (various references) | |
Ukranian | стирання (abrasion, attrition, defacement, deletion, effacement, erasement, erasure, obliteration, rub), ерозія грунту. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"ABRADING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baraldini, bareding, bradding, nabadingi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-g-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: barding, bargain, brigand. | |
-2 letters: airbag, baaing, baring, daring, gradin, indaba, radian, riband. | |
-3 letters: again, agria, bairn, braid, brain, brand, bring, dinar, drain, garni, grain, grana, grand, grind, nadir, naiad, naira, rabid, ranid. | |
-4 letters: abri, agar, agin, airn, anga, aria, arid, band, bang, bani, bard, barn, bind, bird, brad, brag, bran, brig, brin, dang, darb, darn, ding, drab, drag, drib, gadi, gain, garb, gird, girn, gnar, grab, grad, gran, grid, grin, nada, nard, raga, ragi, raia, raid, rain, rand, rang, rani, rind, ring. | |
-5 letters: aba, aga, aid, ain, air, ana, and, ani, arb, baa, bad, bag, ban, bar, bid, big, bin, bra, dab, dag, dib, dig, din, gab, gad, gan, gar, gib, gid, gin, nab, nag, nib, rad, rag, ran, ria, rib, rid, rig, rin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-g-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: bargained, gabardine. | |
+2 letters: brigandage, gabardines. | |
+3 letters: adumbrating, barricading, brigandages, grandbabies, scabbarding. | |
+4 letters: barricadoing, bastardising, bastardizing, boardsailing, broadcasting, carbonadoing, clapboarding, outbargained, sailboarding, starboarding. | |
+5 letters: blackguarding, boardsailings, breadboarding, decarbonating, radiolabeling, sailboardings, skateboarding. | |
| 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)41 42 52 41 44 49 4E 47 |
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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)01000001 01000010 01010010 01000001 01000100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A B R A D I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0042 0052 0041 0044 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)3536523538434841 |
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