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Definition: BEARDING |
BEARDINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Beard |
Date "BEARDING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Crosswords: BEARDING |
| Specialty definitions using "BEARDING": bearding line. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Bearding the lion.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "BEARDING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BEARDING" is used about 5 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% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "BEARDING": bearding line. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "BEARDING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | underste spundingslinie (bearding line, inner rabbet line, rabbet lower line). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | aansnijding binnenzijde huidbeplating met kiel (bearding line, inner rabbet line, rabbet lower line). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kölin ja laudoituksen yhtymäviiva (bearding line, inner rabbet line, rabbet lower line). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | trait intérieur de râblure (bearding line). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Unterkante der Kielsponung (bearding line, inner rabbet line, rabbet lower line). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | η γραμμή τομής του περιβλήματος του σκάφους με το ποδόστημα,την τρόπιδα και τη στείρα (bearding line, inner rabbet line, rabbet lower line). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | orlo inferiore della battura di chiglia (bearding line, inner rabbet line, rabbet lower line), canto esterno della battura di chiglia (bearding line, inner rabbet line, rabbet lower line). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | caulgey (beard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eardingbay linha do alefriz (bearding line, inner rabbet line, rabbet lower line). (various references) canto interior del alefriz de la quilla (bearding line, inner rabbet line, rabbet lower line). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"BEARDING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bareding, Beardon, bearning, Berardenga, Berardi, boardings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: breading. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-g-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: abridge, barding, beading, bearing, brained, brigade, brigand, deraign, gradine, grained, reading. | |
-2 letters: abider, badger, bander, banged, banger, barged, baring, begird, binder, binged, binger, bridge, brined, danger, daring, denari, dinger, earing, engird, gained, gainer, gander, garbed, garden, girned, graben, gradin, inbred, rained, ranged, reagin, rebind, reding, regain, regina, riband, ringed. | |
-3 letters: abide, aider, aired, anger, ardeb, badge, bairn, baned, barde, bared, barge, beard, began, begin, being, bider, binge, braid, brain, brand, bread, bride, brine, bring, deair, debar, deign, denar, dinar, diner, dinge, dirge, drain, garni, gibed, giber, grade, grain, grand, gride, grind, irade, nadir, rabid, raged, range, ranid, rebid, redan, redia, regna, reign, renig, ridge. | |
-4 letters: abed, abri, aged, ager, agin, aide, airn, arid, bade, band, bane, bang, bani, bard, bare, barn, bead, bean, bear, bend, berg, bide, bier, bind, bine, bird, brad, brae, brag, bran, bred, bren, brie, brig, brin, dang, darb, dare, darn, dean, dear, deni, dine, ding, dire, drab, drag, dreg, drib, earn, egad, gadi, gaed, gaen, gain, gane, garb, gear, gibe, gied, gien, gird, girn, gnar, grab, grad, gran, grid, grin, idea, ired, nabe, nard, near, nerd, nide, rage, ragi, raid, rain, rand, rang, rani, read, rein, rend, ride, rind, ring. | |
-5 letters: age, aid, ain, air, and, ane, ani, arb, are, bad, bag, ban, bar, bed, beg, ben, bid, big, bin, bra, dab, dag, deb, den, dib, die, dig, din, ear, end, eng, era, erg, ern, gab, gad, gae, gan, gar, ged, gen, gib, gid, gie, gin, ire, nab, nae, nag, neb, nib, rad, rag, ran, reb, red, reg, rei, ria, rib, rid, rig, rin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-g-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: badgering, bargained, bedraping, debarking, debarring, gabardine, gaberdine. | |
+2 letters: abridgment, bartending, bedwarfing, brigandage, brigandine, broadening, gabardines, gaberdines, reboarding, redbaiting, ringbarked, unabridged. | |
+3 letters: abridgement, abridgments, becowarding, bedarkening, bediapering, bedraggling, bespreading, brigandages, brigandines, drumbeating, fingerboard, gingerbread, grandbabies, harbingered, keyboarding. | |
+4 letters: abridgements, biodegrading, breadwinning, childbearing, deliberating, descrambling, disembarking, drumbeatings, fingerboards, gingerbreads, gingerbready, outbargained, unbridgeable. | |
+5 letters: boardinghouse, breadboarding, breadwinnings, childbearings, decarbonating, decarbonizing, decarburizing, decerebrating, defibrinating, detribalizing, gingerbreaded, radiolabeling, rekeyboarding, skateboarding. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 45 41 52 44 49 4E 47 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . .- .-. -.. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000101 01000001 01010010 01000100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B E A R D I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0045 0041 0052 0044 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)3639355238434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Images: Photo Album 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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