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Definition: Altering |
AlteringNoun1. The sterilization of an animal; "they took him to the vet for neutering". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "altering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: AlteringSynonyms: fixing (n), neutering (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Altering |
| English words defined with "altering": Alterant, alteration ♦ Center of gyration ♦ dash ♦ environmental ♦ forgery ♦ meddling, molded ♦ Pseudosphere ♦ revision ♦ sartor, seamster, shaped ♦ tailor, tampering ♦ Weathering, wrought. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "altering": Add-on Control Device, Antibiotics, Anthracycline, applications programmer ♦ Calcium Channels, N-Type, Chemical Actions, Cloning, Molecular ♦ Eicosanoids ♦ front side bus ♦ Macrophage Activation ♦ non-selective match ♦ omega-Agatoxin IVA ♦ pertussis toxin, phacker, phase-changer, phase-shifter, Pitch Control, programmer, busines, programming area ♦ reactivity worth, refactoring, RNA, Antisense, ROVING-WEIGHT GAUGER ♦ smallest meaningful unit, sound probe, SUPERVISOR, ALTERATION WORKROOM, SUPERVISOR, COSTUMING. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I am altering the deal (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: George Lucas; Leigh Brackett) Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that need altering. (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) You realize that by giving him the formula you're altering history (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home; writing credit: Leonard Nimoy; Harve Bennett) Now, if you choose not to respond to my parental authority, I should warn you, I have mind altering drugs in the other room and I'm not afraid to use them (Everwood; writing credit: Michael Green; Rina Mimoun) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Deformed jaws of salmon caused by the spawning process altering their bodies. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Are you among the many American adults who have trouble digesting lactose? Then you may already know about the lactose-free products that we've developed by altering a bacterium used to make cheese and yogurt. It produces an enzyme that in turn breaks down the milk's lactose, sparing you and upset stomach. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | "A Vision Altering The Art Of Medicine". Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
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| "Red Shoes" by Vi Xs Commentary: "Experiment altering the white balance on my camera." |
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William James | The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. |
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Health | UVR also affects Langerhans cells in both animal and human skin by altering their immunologic function. (references) | |
The dissociative drugs act by altering distribution of the neurotransmitter glutamate throughout the brain. (references) | ||
Niacin is a first choice when drugs are required because of its low cost and its efficacy in altering multiple lipid fractions. (references) | ||
Economic History | The Holy See | A revised concordat, altering the terms of church-state relations, was signed in 1984. (references) |
Human Rights | Belarus | On March 15, the regime published a decree "on improving the system of receipt and use of humanitarian assistance." This decree specifically forbids "activities directed at altering the constitutional order, overthrowing state power or encouraging such activities . . . preparing, administering, and organizing elections, referenda, organizing meetings, rallies, demonstrations, pickets, strikes, publishing and distributing promotional materials, organizing seminars and other types of promotional activities involving the population." The decree was interpreted by the tax authorities as the basis for a government-wide crackdown on independent NGO's, many of which receive funding from foreign sources. (references) |
Political Rights | Bosnia and Herzegovina | In January the High Representative formed a commission in each entity to propose entity constitutional amendments altering government institutions or protections to reflect this principle. (references) |
Trade | Uruguay | Deception on the part of the importer or altering the value of imports is considered fraud and subject to legal penalties. (references) |
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| "Altering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 98.30% of the time. "Altering" is used about 411 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) | 98.3% | 404 | 13,896 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.97% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.73% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 411 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "altering": control by means of a split coupling between the motor and the fan.The speed of the fan is varied by altering the slip between the two coupling halves either magnetically or hydraulically. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "altering": consciousness-altering, food-altering, meaning-altering, mind-altering, mood-altering, sense-altering, size-altering. | |
Containing "altering": consciousness-altering drug, mind-altering drug. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "altering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 修改 (Alter, Altered, modification, modified, modify, Modifying). (various references) | |
Danish | kastration (castration, emasculation, neutering). (various references) | |
Dutch | kastratie (castration, neutering), castratie (castration). (various references) | |
French | altérant, castration. (various references) | |
German | abändernd, ändernd (changing, modifiying, modifying). (various references) | |
Greek | ευνουχισμός (castration). (various references) | |
Hungarian | változtatás (alteration, change, changeover, modification, shift), változó (alternate, broken, erratic, fickle, movable, moveable, variable, varied, various), megváltoztatás (alteration, veer), megváltozás (alteration), módosuló, módosulás (alteration, shift), módosítás (alteration, amendment, modification, qualification), átdolgozás (adaptation, reconstruction, re-make, revision), átalakuló, átalakítás (alteration, conversion, doing-up, modification, reconstruction, reforming, remaking, remodeling, reshuffle, transformation, transmogrification, transmutation). (various references) | |
Italian | castrazione (castration). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 改竄 (faking, falsifying). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かいざん (faking, falsification, falsifying). (various references) | |
Korean | 바꿈. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alteringay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | castração (castrate, emasculation, gelding). (various references) | |
Russian | изменять изменение. (various references) | |
Scottish | atharrachadh (removing), mùthadh (changing), caochladh (dying). (various references) | |
Spanish | castración (castration, emasculation, gelding). (various references) | |
Swedish | förändra (alter, change, transform, turn). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "altering": faltering, haltering, misaltering, paltering, realtering, unfaltering. (additional references) | |
Words containing "altering": falteringly, unfalteringly. (additional references) | |
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"Altering" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alberigo, Alberni, Allerdings, Almerino, altifrons, altredian, artexing, atabrin, Atebrin, Latrigg. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "altering" (pronounced ô"ltering) |
| 6 | ô" l t er i ng | faltering. |
| 5 | -l t er i ng | filtering, sheltering, sweltering. |
| 4 | -t er i ng | administering, bantering, bartering, battering, bettering, blistering, blustering, bolstering, catering, centering, chartering, chattering, clustering, cluttering, countering, doctoring, encountering, entering, factoring, festering, filibustering, flattering, fluttering, fostering, frittering, glittering, guttering, hectoring, lettering, littering, loitering, mastering, mentoring, metering, mitering, monitoring, motoring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neutering, pestering, petering, plastering, puttering, reentering, registering, scattering, sculpturing, sequestering, shattering, shuttering, slaughtering, smattering, spattering, splintering, sputtering, stuttering, teetering, tottering, tutoring, unflattering, uttering, watering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | answering, anchoring, angering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, belaboring, beleaguering, bewildering, bickering, blundering, bordering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, censoring, clamoring, clobbering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doddering, embroidering, empowering, endangering, endeavoring, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, figuring, fingering, flavoring, flickering, floundering, flowering, foundering, fracturing, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glowering, grandfathering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, levering, lingering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, maundering, meandering, measuring, minoring, mirroring, mongering, mothering, murdering, murmuring, neighboring, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, quivering, recapturing, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scouring, severing, shimmering, shivering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, simmering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spiering, sponsoring, squandering, staggering, structuring, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, tempering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, towering, transpiring, triggering, uncovering, unwavering, ushering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, warmongering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, wondering, Wuthering, zippering. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: alerting, integral, relating, tanglier, triangle. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: aligner, atingle, elating, engrail, gelatin, genital, granite, gratine, ingrate, latrine, nargile, ratline, realign, reginal, reliant, retinal, ringlet, tangier, tangler, tearing, tingler, trenail. | |
-2 letters: aiglet, aigret, aliner, angler, antler, argent, earing, eating, engirt, entail, gainer, gaiter, garnet, gelant, gelati, genial, gentil, glaire, gratin, ingate, larine, learnt, ligate, linage, linear, linger, linter, nailer, ratine. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: antiglare, earthling, faltering, gnarliest, granulite, haltering, integrals, lathering, paltering, reflating, replating, reslating, retailing, trameling, traveling, treadling, triangles. | |
+2 letters: blathering, blattering, clattering, corelating, earthlings, flattering, generalist, generality, granulites, integrable, integrally, lacerating, lateraling, laterizing, laureating, leathering, liberating, martingale, multirange, plastering, pregenital, realtering, refloating, regelating, regimental, regulating, regulation, relegating, relegation, relocating, replanting, resaluting, retackling, retailings, slathering, starveling, tolerating, trailering, tramelling, trammeling, travelling, trigeminal, ulcerating, urogenital. | |
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