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Definition: AFFORDING |
AFFORDINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Afford |
Date "AFFORDING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Percy Bysshe Shelley | Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Australia | Upon approval of a claim, a temporary protection visa valid for 3 years is given, affording access to medical insurance and social services but without provision for family reunification or right of reentry to the country. (references) |
Political Economy | Iraq | The Government has enacted laws affording a variety of protections to women; however, it is difficult to determine the practical effects of such protections. (references) |
Worker Rights | Thailand | There is no law affording job protection to employees who remove themselves from dangerous work situations. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | Whether the subsequent communications from this Government, affording an occasion for reconsidering the subject on the part of Great Britain, will be viewed in a more favorable light or received in a more accommodating spirit remains to be known. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | Fellow-citizens, you are acquainted with the peculiar circumstances of the recent election, which have resulted in affording me the opportunity of addressing you at this time. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | In a political point of view this Department is chiefly important as affording the means of diffusing knowledge. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "AFFORDING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AFFORDING" is used about 71 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) | 100% | 71 | 39,674 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "AFFORDING". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Melita | N/A | Biblical | Affording honey |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
affording home | 3 |
affording a house | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "AFFORDING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 买得起 (Afford, Afforded). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | station uden bagageekspedition (station not affording facilities for registered baggage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | station dat niet voor bagage is geopend (station not affording facilities for registered baggage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | varjoinenvarjoisa (affording shade, shady). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | gare fermée au trafic des bagages (station not affording facilities for registered baggage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | gewährung (granting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | σταθμός κλειστός στην κίνηση αποσκευών (station not affording facilities for registered baggage), σταθμός που δεν δέχεται αποσκευές (station not affording facilities for registered baggage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | stazione non abilitata al servizio bagagli (station not affording facilities for registered baggage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 줌 (Giving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | affordingay estação fechada ao tráfego de bagagens (station not affording facilities for registered baggage). (various references) estación cerrada al tráfico de equipajes (station not affording facilities for registered baggage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"AFFORDING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adforton. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "AFFORDING" (pronounced ufô"rding) |
| 5 | -ô" r d i ng | according, awarding, boarding, cording, hoarding, recording, rewarding, warding. |
| 4 | -r d i ng | bombarding, discarding, disregarding, guarding, regarding, retarding, safeguarding, skateboarding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | abiding, abounding, acceding, adding, aiding, alluding, amending, applauding, apprehending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, backsliding, balding, banding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guiding, handholding, handing, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, holding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebounding, rebuilding, receding, recommending, Redding, Reding, refunding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retreading, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skidding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, trading, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unloading, unwinding, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, wedding, weeding, welding, wending, wielding, Wilding, winding, withholding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding, yielding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-f-f-g-i-n-o-r" | |
-2 letters: adoring, daffing, doffing, farding, fording, griffon. | |
-3 letters: afford, daring, dragon, fading, faring, ganoid, goniff, gradin, inroad, oaring, offing, onagri, ordain, origan. | |
-4 letters: adorn, argon, aroid, danio, dinar, dingo, doing, donga, draff, drain, fagin, fiord, frond, ganof, garni, giron, gonad, gonia, gonif, grain, grand, griff, grind, groan, groin, infra, nadir, noria, orang, organ, radio, radon, ranid. | |
-5 letters: agin, agio, agon, airn, arid, daff, dago, dang, darn, ding, doff, dona, dong, drag, fado, fain, fair, fang, fano, fard, faro, fiar, fido, find, fino, firn, foin, fond, fora, ford, frag, frig, frog, gadi, gaff, gain, gird, girn, giro, gnar, goad, grad, gran, grid, grin, info, inro, iron, naif, naoi, nard, nodi, noir, nori, orad, raff, ragi, raid, rain, rand, rang, rani, riff, rind, ring, road, roan. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 46 46 4F 52 44 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)01000001 01000110 01000110 01001111 01010010 01000100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A F F O R D I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0046 0046 004F 0052 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)354040495238434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Quotations: Speeches 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Derived from | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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