BEHAVING

Definition: BEHAVING

BEHAVING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Behave

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "BEHAVING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Crosswords: BEHAVING

English words defined with "BEHAVING": abnormally, affected ♦ bawdiness, bungle ♦ curiously ♦ demureness, deviously ♦ Fashion-mongering, femininity, fractiously ♦ impishness, in her right mind, in his right mind, in their right minds ♦ lewdness, lovesick ♦ manner, masculinity, mild-mannered, mischievousness, muliebrity ♦ obscenity, oddly ♦ peculiarly, personal manner, primly, prissily, puckishness ♦ raving, raving mad, remember oneself, revolution ♦ salaciousness, salacity, sanely, screw-loose, screwy ♦ unnatural ♦ virtuous ♦ whimsicality, wild. (references)

Specialty definitions using "BEHAVING": zbeba. (references)

Etymologies containing "BEHAVING": Fashion-mongering. (references)

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Modern Usage: BEHAVING

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	There is no emotions or words that go on between us! I'm behaving like a straight man and it's making me sick! (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) People behaving like that with guns. (The Godfather: Part II; writing credit: Francis Ford Coppola) He's behaving his damn self. (Gormenghast; writing credit: Malcolm McKay; Mervyn Peake) Despite the fact that you're one large pain in the arse last night was the best thing that ever happened to me, girl wise, and if you weren't behaving like such a horses rectum you would know that we could be inside touching and fondling all day long until I've got to go to rehearsal. (The Goodbye Girl; writing credit: Neil Simon) (baiting him) Ever since we walked into this room, you've been behaving like a self-appointed public avenger! (12 Angry Men; writing credit: Reginald Rose)
Movie/TV Titles	The Real Men Behaving Badly (2002) Girls Behaving Badly (2002) Pets Behaving Badly (2000) Ladies Behaving Badly Series: Volume 6 (1998) Men Behaving Badly (1996)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: BEHAVING

Domain	Title
Books	Men Behaving Badly: A Novel (reference) The Rancher's Daughters: Behaving Herself (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Playboy: Women Behaving Badly (reference) Women Behaving Badly (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Men Behaving Badly [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: BEHAVING

Author	Quotation
William Feather	When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: BEHAVING

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The bat was behaving abnormally. (references)
		It is important to know that any coyote anywhere can have the disease, not just those in the states that found rabies in coyotes in 2000. Always be careful of any coyote you see behaving strangely. (references)
		There were 2,223 rabies cases in skunks in 2000. Any skunk anywhere can have the disease, not just the states that found rabies in skunks in 2000. Always be careful of any skunk you see behaving strangely. (references)
Economic History	Belgium	Active bribery is defined as the proposal of a promise or benefit in exchange for behaving in a certain way. (references)
	Belgium	In the future, it will count as passive bribery if a government official or employer requests or accepts a benefit for himself or somebody else in exchange for behaving in a certain way. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: BEHAVING

"BEHAVING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 99.28% of the time. "BEHAVING" is used about 554 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)	99.28%	550	11,313
Adjective (general or positive)	0.54%	3	202,518
Noun (proper)	0.18%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	554	N/A

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

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Expression: BEHAVING

Expression using "BEHAVING": way of behaving. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BEHAVING

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
badly behaving girl	78
man behaving badly	41
woman behaving badly	11
playboy woman behaving badly	7
behaving	4
badly.com behaving girl	3
badly behaving	3
bad behaving girl	2
behaving miss	2
behaving man	2
badly behaving girl show	2
badly behaving girl oxygen	2
badley behaving girl	2
animation badly behaving	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: BEHAVING

Language		Translations for "BEHAVING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		表现 (Behave, Behaved, Performance, Presentment). (various references)

Dutch		bestuurder die zich gedraagt alsof de vennootschap een persoonlijke zaak is (director behaving as if the company were personal business). (various references)

French		dirigeant se comportant comme si la société était une affaire personnelle (director behaving as if the company were personal business). (various references)

German		benehmend. (various references)

Indonesian		berkelakuan (behave, behaving like, have the character of). (various references)

Italian		dirigente che si comporta come se la societ� fosse un affare personale (director behaving as if the company were personal business). (various references)

Korean		행동 (Acting, BEHAVIOR, behavioral, behaviour, behavioural, Deportment). (various references)

Pig Latin		ehavingbay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: BEHAVING

Derivations
	Words ending with "BEHAVING": misbehaving. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"BEHAVING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bahagi, behaven, Bhavan. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "BEHAVING"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "BEHAVING" (pronounced buhā"ving)
7	b u h ā" v i ng	misbehaving.
4	-ā" v i ng	braving, caving, craving, engraving, paving, raving, saving, shaving, staving, waiving, waving.
3	-v i ng	absolving, achieving, approving, arriving, believing, calving, caregiving, carving, conceiving, conniving, conserving, curving, deceiving, delving, depriving, deriving, deserving, disapproving, disbelieving, dissolving, diving, driving, earthmoving, evolving, forgiving, giving, grieving, halving, having, heaving, improving, interleaving, interweaving, involving, jiving, leaving, lifesaving, living, loving, misgiving, moving, observing, perceiving, preserving, proving, receiving, relieving, reliving, removing, reserving, resolving, retrieving, reviving, revolving, revving, serving, shelving, shoving, sieving, skydiving, solving, starving, striving, surviving, thanksgiving, thieving, thriving, unbelieving, undeserving, unforgiving, unnerving, unswerving, weaving.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: BEHAVING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-h-i-n-v"
	-1 letter: heaving.
	-2 letters: haeing, having, vahine.
	-3 letters: began, begin, being, bhang, binge, ganev, given, haven, hinge, naevi, naive, neigh, vegan.
	-4 letters: agin, bane, bang, bani, bean, bine, gaen, gain, gane, gave, gibe, gien, give, haen, hang, have, hive, nabe, nave, nevi, nigh, vagi, vain, vane, vang, vein, vena, vibe, viga, vina, vine.
	-5 letters: age, ain, ane.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-g-h-i-n-v"
	+3 letters: misbehaving.
	+5 letters: overbleaching, overbreathing.
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