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Definitions: Banting |
BantingNoun1. Canadian physiologist who discovered insulin with C. H. Best and who used it to treat diabetes(1891-1941). 2. Wild ox of the Malay Archipelago. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Banting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references) |
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Literature | Banting Doing Banting. Reducing superfluous fat by living on meat diet, and abstaining from beer, farinaceous food, and vegetables, according to the method adopted by William Banting, a London cabinet-maker, once a very fat man (born 1796, died 1878). The word was introduced about 1864. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: BantingSynonyms: banteng (n), tsine (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: banteng (food & agriculture, european union). |
Crosswords: Banting |
| English words defined with "Banting": Bantingism, best ♦ C. H. Best, Charles Herbert Best ♦ F. G. Banting ♦ John James Rickard Macleod, John Macleod ♦ Macleod ♦ Sir Frederick Grant Banting. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Banting" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Indonesian (stagger, throw down forcefully). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Sir Frederick Grant Banting / From the painting by F. Netter, M.D.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Banting" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Banting" is used about 7 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 |
| Noun (proper) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Banting": F. G. Banting ♦ Sir Frederick Grant Banting. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
frederick banting | 26 |
banting | 18 |
banting kolej mara | 13 |
banting fredrick | 10 |
banting memorial high school | 9 |
banting best | 8 |
banting frederick sir | 6 |
banting middle school | 3 |
banting frederick grant | 3 |
banting edward | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Banting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | مزح (banter, chaff, fool, frolic, fun, in play, joke, kid, lark, make fun of, rag, skylark, trifle, waggle). (various references) | |
Danish | banteng (Banteng, Bantin). (various references) | |
Dutch | Banteng (Banteng, Bantin). (various references) | |
French | Banteng (Banteng, Bantin). (various references) | |
German | Banteng (Banteng, Bantin), Sundarind (Banteng, Bantin). (various references) | |
Greek | Banteng (Banteng, Bantin). (various references) | |
Italian | Banteng (Banteng, Bantin). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | antingbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | boi de Java (Banteng, Bantin), Regime Para Emagrecer. (various references) | |
Romanian | Curã De Slãbire. (various references) | |
Russian | Лечение Ожирения "иетой. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | šegačenje (banter, skit). (various references) | |
Spanish | banting (Banteng, Bantin), banteng (Banteng, Bantin). (various references) | |
Swedish | Skämtning. (various references) | |
Turkish | Özel Diyet. (various references) | |
Ukranian | "олодна "і"та. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Bibos javanicus, Bibos sondaicus, Bos javanicus. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-g-i-n-n-t" | |
-1 letter: anting, baning, bating. | |
-2 letters: giant. | |
-3 letters: agin, anti, bait, bang, bani, bint, gain, gait, gnat, tain, tang, ting. | |
-4 letters: ain, ait, ani, ant, bag, ban, bat, big, bin, bit, gab, gan, gat, gib, gin, git, inn, nab, nag, nan, nib, nit, tab, tag, tan, tin. | |
-5 letters: ab, ag, ai, an, at, ba, bi, in, it, na, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-g-i-n-n-t" | |
+1 letter: bantling. | |
+2 letters: absenting, bantering, bantlings, battening, benignant, obtaining. | |
+3 letters: abnegating, abnegation, abstaining, antibusing, banqueting, bartending, bayoneting, bepainting, bethanking, blanketing, botanising, botanizing, brigantine, incubating, inhabiting, intangible, intangibly, interabang, intubating, sunbathing. | |
+4 letters: abnegations, abominating, ambitioning, bankrupting, banteringly, bayonetting, benignantly, bombinating, brigantines, brominating, carbonating, hibernating, inbreathing, inebriating, intangibles, interabangs, interrobang, langbeinite, reobtaining, tobogganing. | |
+5 letters: antigambling, antiglobulin, barnstorming, bastinadoing, conglobating, conglobation, heartburning, infibulating, interrobangs, langbeinites, nonbreathing, obnubilating, outbalancing, reinhabiting, sandblasting, tabernacling, tangibleness, tobogganings, transcribing, unnegotiable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 6E 74 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- -. - .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01101110 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a n t i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 006E 0074 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36678086758073 |
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