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Definitions: BLEACHING |
BLEACHINGNoun1. The act or process of whitening, by removing color or stains; esp. the process of whitening fabrics by chemical agents. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Bleach |
Date "BLEACHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Industry | Necessary process to remove the natural and artificial impurities in fabrics to obtain clear whites for even dying and printing. Source: European Union. (references) |
Fine Arts | Converting a silver image (negative or positive) into a more or less colourless silver compound. . Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The loss of normal colour, tending toward white, cream, or tan coloration. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Process whereby staples, tops, yarns and fabrics are whitened:the base colour is improved. Oxidising, reducing and optical bleaches are used. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Removal or modification of the coloured components in pulp with the object of increasing its brightness. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cleanness | Wash, lotion, detergent, cathartic, purgative; purifier; Verb: disinfectant; aperient; benzene, benzine benzol, benolin; bleaching powder, chloride of lime, dentifrice, deobstruent, laxative. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Corals throughout the Caribbean are bleaching (casting out their algae).Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Further, during the period above mentioned the German Government shall allow the free export from Germany, and the free re-importation into Germany, exempt from all customs duties and other charges (including internal charges), of yarns, tissues, and other textile materials or textile products of any kind and in any condition, sent from Germany into the territories of Alsace or Lorraine, to be subjected there to any finishing process, such as bleaching, dyeing, printing, mercerisation, gassing, twisting or dressing. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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Business | Unlike other industries, the bleaching and dyeing industry has a long family business tradition. (references) | |
The bleaching and dyeing industry faces significant compliance problems with environmental regulations. (references) | ||
In June 2000, there were 2,198 bleaching and dyeing factories in Hong Kong with a total of 30,910 employees. (references) | ||
Economic History | Hong Kong | The key industries requiring wastewater control equipment are electroplating, printed circuit board, bleaching and dyeing, food processing and printing. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BLEACHING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 64.29% of the time. "BLEACHING" is used about 42 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) | 64.29% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Noun (singular) | 21.43% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 11.9% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.38% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 42 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "BLEACHING": bleaching agent ♦ bleaching clay ♦ bleaching earth ♦ bleaching engine ♦ bleaching powder ♦ optical bleaching agent ♦ Tooth Bleaching. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "BLEACHING": bleaching-powder. | |
Ending with "BLEACHING": chlorine-bleaching, matter-bleaching, over-bleaching, package-bleaching, peroxide-bleaching, photo-bleaching. | |
| 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 "BLEACHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قصارة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | изрусяване, избелване (whitening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 漂白 (Blanch, Bleach, bleached, Whiten, Whitened, Whitening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zesvìtlení. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | blegning (blanching, etiolation), blegemiddel (bleaching agent, brightener, decolorizing agent, fluorescent whitening agent, optical bleach, optical bleaching agent, optical brightener, optical brightening agent, optical whitening agent, whitening agent), blege (blanch, bleach, to bleach), affarvningsmiddel (decolorizing agent), afblegning (dealbation, fading). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | blekerij (laundering), bleken (blanch, blanching, bleach, dealbation, etiolation, fading, whiten), bleekmiddel (bleaching agent, bleaching agents, brightener, decolorizing agent, fluorescent whitening agent, optical bleach, optical bleaching agent, optical brightener, optical brightening agent, optical whitening agent, whitening agent), verbleken (blanching, fade), ontkleuringsmiddel (decolorizing agent), ontkleuring (dealbation, decolorization, depigmentation, fading). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | valkaisu (chalking, dealbation, fading, frosting, whitening), vaaleneminen (dealbation, fading), haalistuminen (dealbation, fading, frosting), haalistaminen (dealbation, fading), dekoloraatio (dealbation, fading). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | blanchiment (blanch, blanching), blanchement (blanching), opération de blanchiment, décoloration (blanching, surface blush), agent décolorant, agent blanchissant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | bleichend (blanching), bleichen (be bleached, blanch, blanching, bleach, bleachings, discharge, etiolation, laundering, to blanch, to bleach, whiten), Bleiche (bleachery, paleness, pallidly, pallor), ausbleichend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λεύκανση (blanching, dealbation, fading, laundering, white specks, whitening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לבון (cleansing, heating, making bricks, whitening), "לב " (whitening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fehérítés (cure, curing, decolorization, decolouration, whitening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pemutihan (whitening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | candeggio (bleach). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 漂白 (blanching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひょうはく (blanching, confession, drifting about, expression, roaming, wandering), さらし (bleached cotton), っしょく (decolouration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 표백. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | thoarey (bleach), thoaree, giallee, giallaghey (blanche, bleach, brighten, clear, clear of weather, lime wash, to the full, whiten, whitening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eachingblay branqueamento (blushing, washing, whitening). (various references) decolorant (decolorant, decolorizer, decolorizing), albit (hoary, washing), albire (blanching, bleach, bleachers, greying, grizzling, whitening), înãlbit (whitening). (various references) отбелка, обесцвечивание (decolorization, decolouration, discoloration, discolouration). (various references) buaic (a wick, bleaching lees, nf. g.+e; pl.+ean; wick of candle or lamp). (various references) beljenje (whitening). (various references) blanqueo (blanching, bleach, etiolation, whitening). (various references) blekning (blanching, discoloration, etiolation, fading, whitening). (various references) ağartma (decolorant, whitening). (various references) vôi clorua (bleaching powder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "BLEACHING": overbleaching. (additional references) | |
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"BLEACHING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beachings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BLEACHING" (pronounced blē"khing) |
| 5 | -l ē" kh i ng | leaching. |
| 4 | -ē" kh i ng | beaching, breaching, impeaching, preaching, reaching, screeching, teaching. |
| 3 | -kh i ng | approaching, arching, attaching, belching, branching, broaching, bunching, catching, clinching, clutching, coaching, crouching, crunching, dispatching, ditching, drenching, encroaching, enriching, entrenching, etching, fetching, flinching, hatching, hitching, inching, itching, latching, launching, lunching, lurching, lynching, marching, matching, mulching, munching, overarching, overreaching, patching, pinching, pitching, poaching, punching, quenching, ranching, researching, retouching, retrenching, scorching, scratching, searching, sketching, slouching, snatching, snitching, squelching, stanching, stitching, stretching, switching, torching, touching, twitching, unflinching, vouching, watching, witching, wrenching. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-g-h-i-l-n" | |
-1 letter: beaching, belching, leaching. | |
-2 letters: angelic, anglice, baching, cabling, galenic, healing, leching. | |
-3 letters: aching, baling, bangle, blanch, bleach, blench, chaine, change, eching, genial, glance, habile, haeing, haling, heliac, incage, inhale, inlace, lacing, lichen, linage. | |
-4 letters: acing, agile, algin, alien, align, aline, angel, angle, anile, bagel, beach, began, begin, being, belch, belga, bench, bhang, bilge, binal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-g-h-i-l-n" | |
+1 letter: bechalking. | |
+2 letters: bellyaching. | |
+3 letters: childbearing. | |
+4 letters: changeability, childbearings, overbleaching. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 4C 45 41 43 48 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-.. . .- -.-. .... .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001100 01000101 01000001 01000011 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B L E A C H I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 004C 0045 0041 0043 0048 0049 004E 0047 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)364639353742434841 |
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