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BATING

Definitions: BATING

BATING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Bate

Preposition

1. With the exception of; excepting.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)



Specialty Definitions: BATING

DomainDefinitions

Mining

Eng. Lowering a drift or road. See also:bate. (references)

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

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Synonyms within Context: BATING

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Exclusion

Adverb: exclusive of, barring; except; with the exception of; save; bating.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: BATING

English words defined with "BATING": bate. (references)

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Usage Frequency: BATING

"BATING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BATING" is used about 3 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)100%3202,518

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

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Expression: BATING

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "BATING": authority-bating.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BATING

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

bating cage

2

bating

2

bating teen young

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

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Modern Translations: BATING

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

Arabic 

  

‏بإستثناء (barring, besides, except, except for, excepting, exclusive, save, unless). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

освен (all but, apart from, aside from, beside, beyond, but, except, excepting, exclusive of, in addition to, other, over and above, saving, than, therewithal). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

降低 (Abase, Abased, Abasing, Bated). (various references)

   

Danish

  

indtagning (baiting, tapering). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

minderen (baiting, decrease, diminish, tapering). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kaventaminen (baiting, tapering). (various references)

   

French

  

diminution (baiting). (various references)

   

German

  

verringernd (abating, lessening), schwächend (bates, debilitating, debilitative, enfeebling). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σμίκρυνση (baiting, miniaturization, reduction, shortening, tapering), μάζεμα (baiting, cissing, crawling, furl, lifting, picking, pickup, shrinkage, tapering). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

cserzés (tanning). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sematura (baiting, tapering), eccetto (apart from, bar, barring, but, except, except for, excepted, other, other than, save, saving, subject, subject to, without, without prejudice). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atingbay

   

Portuguese

  

reduzir (baiting, Bate, boil down, curtail, cut, decrease, diminish, lessen, minify, minimize, reduce, restrict, retrench, scale, scrimp, shorten, sink, skimp, slash, tapering, to reduce, weaken, wear down, write off), exceto (barring, besides, but, except, excepting, of other, save, saving, wanting), amatar (baiting, tapering). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

cu excepţia (barring, but, except, excepting, save, save that, saving, short of, with the exception of). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

за исключением (all but, apart from, aside from, barring, except, except for, except in, excepting, save, save for, to the exclusion of, with but, with the exception of, with the exclusion of). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

osim (aside from, barring, beside, but, else, except, except for, excepting, save), izuzimajući (excepting, excluding). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

reducción (abatement, abridgement, abridgment, adaptor, baiting, contraction, curtailment, cutback, depletion, discount, mark down, narrowing, rebate, reducer, reducer fitting, reducing socket, reduction, retrenchment, setting, shortening, tapering), menguado (baiting, fashioned, tapering). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

"beting". (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: BATING

Derivations

Words ending with "BATING": abating, acerbating, approbating, cohobating, combating, conglobating, debating, exacerbating, extubating, incubating, intubating, masturbating, outdebating, probating, rebating, reprobating. (additional references)


Misspellings

"BATING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: banteng, Bantin, Bantung, batan, batang, batian, Batin, Batkin, Battig, beratiny, betina, betine, betong, Betzig, bhatain, biteing, bitings, bitting, Botin, iating. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: BATING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-g-i-n-t"

-1 letter: giant.

-2 letters: agin, anti, bait, bang, bani, bint, gain, gait, gnat, tain, tang, ting.

-3 letters: ain, ait, ani, ant, bag, ban, bat, big, bin, bit, gab, gan, gat, gib, gin, git, nab, nag, nib, nit, tab, tag, tan, tin.

-4 letters: ab, ag, ai, an, at, ba, bi, in, it, na, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-g-i-n-t"
 

+1 letter: abating, antibug, baiting, basting, bathing, batting, batwing, beating, boating, dingbat, tabbing, tabling, tabuing.

 

+2 letters: abetting, ablating, aborting, abutting, bangtail, bantling, bastings, batching, battings, battling, beatings, berating, betaking, blasting, blatting, bleating, bloating, boasting, boatings, borating, debating, dingbats, habiting, rebating, stabbing, stabling, tabbying, tabering, tabooing, taboring, tangible, tangibly.

 

+3 letters: abducting, absenting, balloting, bangtails, bantering, bantlings, baptising, baptizing, bartering, basseting, battening, battering, beastings, benignant, betraying, blastings, brattling, breasting, breathing, bromating, combating, ignitable, librating, obtaining, obviating, outbaking, probating, rabbeting, rabbiting, rebaiting, stabbings, stablings, sublating, tableting, tabouring, tangibles, vibrating.

 

+4 letters: abdicating, abiogenist, abnegating, abnegation, abreacting, abridgment, abrogating, abrogation, abstaining, absterging, acerbating, adhibiting, ambulating, antibusing, babbitting, backbiting, backdating, ballasting, banqueting, bartending, bassetting, batfowling, bayoneting, beatifying, bepainting, besteading, bethanking, blanketing, blathering, blattering, bloviating, bobtailing, botanising, botanizing, bracketing, bratticing, breathings, brigantine, butylating, cohabiting, cohobating, combatting, embattling, extubating, geobotanic, hebetating, iceboating, incubating, inhabiting, intangible, intangibly, integrable, interabang, intubating, jubilating, lambasting, liberating, negotiable, obligating, obligation, obturating, outbargain, outbarking, outbawling, outbeaming, outblazing, outbraving, outfabling, redbaiting, sabotaging, sibilating, sunbathing, tabletting, tabulating, tambouring, tubulating.

 

+5 letters: abiogenists, abnegations, abominating, abridgement, abridgments, abrogations, abstracting, abstricting, adumbrating, alphabeting, ambitioning, amblygonite, antiburglar, approbating, arbitraging, arbitrating, attributing, babysitting, backbitings, backfitting, backlisting, bacterizing, badmouthing, bankrupting, banteringly, bayonetting, bearbaiting, beautifying, becarpeting, benignantly, bequeathing, betattering, bifurcating, bombinating, brachiating, brecciating, brigantines, brominating, browbeating, brutalising, brutalizing, bullbaiting, calibrating, carbonating, carbureting, celebrating, cerebrating, drumbeating, elaborating, exuberating, fabricating, geobotanies, geobotanist, grubstaking, habituating, haptoglobin, hibernating, iceboatings, imbricating, inbreathing, inebriating, intangibles, interabangs, interrobang, langbeinite, libertinage, lubricating, mothballing, obfuscating, objurgating, objurgation, obligations, outbargains, outbleating, outboasting, outbragging, outbrawling, outdebating, overbeating, rebaptizing, reobtaining, reprobating, rubricating, sailboating, showboating, stabilizing, stablishing, stringybark, subjugating, subjugation, sublimating, subrogating, subrogation, subtotaling, subtracting, talebearing, tangibility, thingamabob, tiebreaking, tobogganing, tobogganist, tribulating.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BATING


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

42 41 54 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)

01000010 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 0054 0049 004E 0047

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

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

363554434841

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INDEX

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


  

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