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Definition: ALLAYING |
ALLAYINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Allay |
Date "ALLAYING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
Crosswords: ALLAYING |
| English words defined with "ALLAYING": Allayment ♦ disarming ♦ Refrigerative. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ALLAYING": Clock. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ALLAYING": Allayment. (references) |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | Since, moveover, for God and the amendment of our kingdom and for the better allaying of the quarrel that has arisen between us and our barons, we have granted all these concessions, desirous that they should enjoy them in complete and firm endurance forever, we give and grant to them the underwritten security, namely, that the barons choose five and twenty barons of the kingdom, whomsoever they will, who shall be bound with all their might, to observe and hold, and cause to be observed, the peace and liberties we have granted and confirmed to them by this our present Charter, so that if we, or our justiciar, or our bailiffs or any one of our officers, shall in anything be at fault towards anyone, or shall have broken any one of the articles of this peace or of this security, and the offense be notified to four barons of the foresaid five and twenty, the said four barons shall repair to us (or our justiciar, if we are out of the realm) and, laying the transgression before us, petition to have that transgression redressed without delay. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him. A busy man complained one day: "I get no time!" "What's that you say?" Cried out his friend, a lazy quiz; "You have, sir, all the time there is. There's plenty, too, and don't you doubt it -- We're never for an hour without it." Purzil Crofe |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ALLAYING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ALLAYING" is used about 10 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% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ALLAYING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | "' (Allay, Allayed, Alleviate, Alleviated, Alleviating, detente, Eased, Easement, Easing, mitigate, mitigated, Mitigating, mitigation, moderation, Palliative). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | beschwichtigend (conciliating, conciliatory, pacifying, placating, placatory). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 水腹 (allaying hunger with water, waterlogged stomach). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | みずばら (allaying hunger with water, waterlogged stomach). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | allayingay ослаблять ослабляющий. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"ALLAYING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alasing, aliasing, alleynian, allicin, Alwyin, aplaying. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ALLAYING" (pronounced ulā"ing) |
| 5 | u l ā" i ng | delaying. |
| 4 | -l ā" i ng | displaying, laying, overplaying, playing, replaying, slaying. |
| 3 | -ā" i ng | baying, betraying, buffeting, conveying, crocheting, decaying, dismaying, disobeying, doomsaying, fraying, graying, Haying, nonpaying, obeying, paying, portraying, praying, prepaying, preying, repaying, saying, spraying, staying, straying, surveying, swaying, weighing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-g-i-l-l-n-y" | |
-1 letter: allying. | |
-2 letters: agnail, alanyl, anally, gainly, laying. | |
-3 letters: again, alang, algal, algin, align, aliya, allay, gaily, gally, gayal, gilly, glial, inlay, lagan, lanai, liana, liang, ligan, linga, lingy, lying, nyala. | |
-4 letters: agin, agly, alan, alga, ally, anal, anga, anil, ayin, gain, gala, gall, gill, glia, illy, inly, lain, lang, lily, ling, liny, nail, nill. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-g-i-l-l-n-y" | |
+1 letter: vaginally. | |
+2 letters: alarmingly, alkylating, diagonally, marginally. | |
+3 letters: alkalifying, angelically, appallingly, appealingly, callipygian, malignantly, organically, placatingly. | |
+4 letters: aboriginally, anagogically, analogically, ballyragging, galvanically, gigantically, lallygagging, magnetically, magnifically, managerially, mulligatawny, paralyzingly, tangentially, triangularly, unavailingly. | |
+5 letters: abiogenically, agonistically, agronomically, antigenically, calculatingly, egomaniacally, enigmatically, evangelically, gradationally, gymnastically, inorganically, mutagenically, nostalgically, palynological, panegyrically, syllabicating, tantalizingly, unappealingly, vacillatingly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 4C 4C 41 59 49 4E 47 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. .-.. .- -.--. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01001100 01001100 01000001 01011001 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A L L A Y I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 004C 004C 0041 0059 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)3546463559434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Historic 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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