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DOCTORING

Definition: DOCTORING

DOCTORING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Doctor

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DOCTORING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references)


Modern Usage: DOCTORING

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Doctoring a Leak (1916)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: DOCTORING

DomainTitle

Books

  • Big Doctoring in America: Profiles in Primary Care [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  • Patient's Progress: Doctors and Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England (reference)

  • What Goes Around: A Humor/Fantasy/Satire Focusing on Presidential Elections, Spin Doctoring, and Foreign Money (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: DOCTORING

"DOCTORING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 76.67% of the time. "DOCTORING" is used about 30 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)76.67%2372,767
Noun (singular)23.33%7133,076
                    Total100.00%30N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: DOCTORING

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "DOCTORING": ball-doctoring.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DOCTORING

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

doctoring

4

baseball doctoring

4

cake doctoring mix

3

bat doctoring softball

2

bat doctoring

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DOCTORING

Language Translations for "DOCTORING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

医治 (Doctored, healing). (various references)

   

German

  

verarztend (vetting). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

치료 (Cure, Curing, healing, Remedies, remedy, Remedying, therapeutic, therapeutical, therapy, treat). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

octoringday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: DOCTORING

Misspellings

"DOCTORING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Daktarin, dintorni, doctering, doctoran, doctorine, dotronix. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "DOCTORING"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "DOCTORING" (pronounced dÄ"ktering)
5-k t er i ngfactoring, hectoring.
4-t er i ngadministering, altering, bantering, bartering, battering, bettering, blistering, blustering, bolstering, catering, centering, chartering, chattering, clustering, cluttering, countering, encountering, entering, faltering, festering, filibustering, filtering, flattering, fluttering, fostering, frittering, glittering, guttering, lettering, littering, loitering, mastering, mentoring, metering, mitering, monitoring, motoring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neutering, pestering, petering, plastering, puttering, reentering, registering, scattering, sculpturing, sequestering, shattering, sheltering, shuttering, slaughtering, smattering, spattering, splintering, sputtering, stuttering, sweltering, teetering, tottering, tutoring, unflattering, uttering, watering.
3-er i nganchoring, angering, answering, 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.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: DOCTORING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-g-i-n-o-o-r-t"

-2 letters: cording, rooting.

-3 letters: citron, coding, cogito, condor, conoid, cooing, cordon, coring, cortin, coting, croton, doctor, doting, drongo, indoor, nordic, octroi, toroid, trigon, trogon.

-4 letters: codon, cogon, coign, condo, congo, conto, corgi, croon, dicot, dingo, doing, donor, droit, giron, grind, griot, groin, incog, ingot, intro, nitro, ontic, ootid, orcin, orgic, rondo, tigon, tondi, tondo.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-g-i-n-o-o-r-t"
 

+2 letters: motorcading.

 

+3 letters: coordinating, gonadotropic, outproducing.

 

+4 letters: decontrolling, discomforting, gonadotrophic, granodioritic, photoreducing, steroidogenic.

 

+5 letters: outreproducing, overdecorating, prognosticated, reconditioning, serodiagnostic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DOCTORING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 4F 43 54 4F 52 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ---    -.-.    -    ---    .-.    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01001111 01000011 01010100 01001111 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#79 &#67 &#84 &#79 &#82 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 004F 0043 0054 004F 0052 0049 004E 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

384937544952434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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