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Definition: APPREHENDING |
APPREHENDINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Apprehend |
Date "APPREHENDING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Crosswords: APPREHENDING |
| English words defined with "APPREHENDING": apprehension, arrest ♦ catch, collar ♦ pinch, Presentative, prompt ♦ quick ♦ ready ♦ Sense organule ♦ taking into custody. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "APPREHENDING": COMMANDING OFFICER, POLICE ♦ MANAGER, INTERNAL SECURITY ♦ STATE-HIGHWAY POLICE OFFICER. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It was a rather cool evening, and some of his neighbors were apprehending a frost. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Malaysia | At year's end, the press reported that the police had killed 26 persons while apprehending them. (references) |
Nigeria | There also were numerous reports of street mobs apprehending and killing suspected criminals during the year. (references) | |
Zimbabwe | There continued to be reports of police using excessive force in apprehending and detaining criminal suspects. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Brazil | The Federal Highway Police are responsible for checking documents and monitoring movement along highways and roads, and in some cases they have been involved in apprehending suspected traffickers. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "APPREHENDING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "APPREHENDING" is used about 16 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) | 87.5% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.5% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "APPREHENDING". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Joahaz | N/A | Biblical | Apprehending |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Language | Translations for "APPREHENDING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 捉捕 (Apprehend, Apprehended). (various references) | ||||
French | appréhendant, percepteur. (various references) | ||||
German | wahrnehmend (descrying, perceiving, perceptive, perceptively, perceptual, percipient), erfassend (seizing). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | apprehendingay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "APPREHENDING": misapprehending. (additional references) | |
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"APPREHENDING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apperhending, prehending. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "APPREHENDING" (pronounced a'pruhe"nding) |
| 9 | -p r u h e" n d i ng | comprehending. |
| 5 | -e" n d i ng | amending, ascending, attending, bending, blending, commending, condescending, contending, defending, depending, descending, ending, expending, extending, fending, impending, intending, lending, mending, misspending, offending, overextending, pending, portending, pretending, recommending, relending, rending, sending, spending, suspending, tending, transcending, trending, unbending, unending, vending, wending. |
| 4 | -n d i ng | abounding, astounding, banding, binding, blinding, bonding, bounding, branding, commanding, compounding, confounding, corresponding, defunding, demanding, disbanding, expanding, expounding, finding, founding, freestanding, funding, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, handing, hounding, landing, longstanding, masterminding, minding, misunderstanding, nonbinding, notwithstanding, outspending, outstanding, overfunding, overspending, pounding, rebounding, refunding, reminding, rescinding, resounding, responding, rounding, sanding, sounding, spellbinding, standing, stranding, surrounding, underfunding, understanding, unwinding, upstanding, winding, withstanding, wounding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | abiding, acceding, according, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, applauding, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bidding, biding, bleeding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, braiding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, conceding, concluding, confiding, cording, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defrauding, degrading, deluding, denuding, deriding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, exploding, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, feuding, Fielding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, guarding, guiding, handholding, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, impeding, imploding, inbreeding, including, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, lauding, leading, loading, madding, marauding, masquerading, Melding, misleading, misreading, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbuilding, outbidding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overloading, overriding, padding, parading, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, preceding, precluding, presiding, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebuilding, receding, recording, Redding, Reding, regarding, rereading, residing, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, safeguarding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, spearheading, speeding, spreading, stampeding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, threading, tiding, trading, treading, unfolding, unloading, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wielding, Wilding, withholding, Wooding, wording, yielding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-h-i-n-n-p-p-r" | |
-2 letters: perpending. | |
-3 letters: appending, apprehend, endearing, engrained, grenadine, happening, hardening, pandering. | |
-4 letters: adhering, endanger, endpaper, ephedrin, epigraph, handgrip, happened, papering, perigean, preening, regained, rehanged, rehinged, repinned. | |
-5 letters: adenine, aginner, angered, dapping, darning, deaning, deraign, derange, digraph, draping, dreeing, earning, energid, engined, engrain, enraged, ephedra, epigean, gappier, genipap, gradine, grained, grandee, grannie, graphed, grenade, grinned, gripped. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-g-h-i-n-n-p-p-r" | |
+3 letters: misapprehending. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 50 50 52 45 48 45 4E 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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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .--. .--. .-. . .... . -. -.. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01010000 01010000 01010010 01000101 01001000 01000101 01001110 01000100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A P P R E H E N D I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0050 0050 0052 0045 0048 0045 004E 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)355050523942394838434841 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinois, Chinesisch |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français, französisch |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , allemand |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais, englisch |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Derived from 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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