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Definition: Belching |
BelchingNoun1. The forceful expulsion of something from inside; "the belching of smoke from factory chimneys". 2. A reflex that expels wind noisily from the stomach through the mouth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "belching" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Noisy release of gas from the stomach through the mouth. Also called burping. (references) |
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Synonyms: BelchingSynonyms: belch (n), burp (n), burping (n), eructation (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: belched (medicine). |
Crosswords: Belching |
| English words defined with "belching": aerophagia ♦ Ructation, Ruft. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | A porters uniform outside a restaurant and six penny tips from belching civilians for closing cab doors on their blowzy women (The Man Who Would Be King; writing credit: Gladys Hill; John Huston) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | They thought I was one of those fire belching dragons. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | To harness the earth for the defense of democracy these chimneys, at an Etna, Pennsylvania, steel mill are belching forth smoke twenty-four hours a day. American steel mills have pushed production up to the very limit of their capacity. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Steel production. Smoke and steel. A black furnace stove and a belching boiler house stack help swell the volume for victory. Republic, Youngstown. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Play | Caption |
 | Man belching. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | For those who have chronic belching, doctors may suggest ways to reduce the amount of air swallowed. (references) | |
Burping, or belching, is the way most swallowed air--which contains nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide--leaves the stomach. (references) | ||
Sometimes a person with chronic belching may have an upper GI disorder, such as peptic ulcer disease, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), or gastritis. (references) | ||
Business | The "10-second" rule endorsed by the Automobile Association applies when a police officer sees smoke or vapor belching from a car's exhaust for more than 10 seconds. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Belching" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 95.12% of the time. "Belching" is used about 41 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) | 95.12% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.44% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.44% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 41 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "belching": smoke-belching. | |
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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. |
| Language | Translations for "belching"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gromësirë. (various references) | |
French | renvois, éructation. (various references) | |
German | rülpsend (burping). (various references) | |
Greek | ρέψιμο (belch, burp, burping, eructation). (various references) | |
Manx | bruightey (belch, erupt, eruption), bruightagh (gushing), brooightooilys, brooightagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | elchingbay.(various references) | |
Romanian | râgâit (eructation, retching), râgâialã (belch, eructation, retching). (various references) | |
Turkish | püskürtme (repulse, rollback, spraying, vomit). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Belching" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Belchen, Belchin, Belkin, Bolchini, Elchaig, Elchin, Oelschig. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "belching" (pronounced be"lkhing) |
| 5 | -e" l kh i ng | squelching. |
| 4 | -l kh i ng | mulching. |
| 3 | -kh i ng | approaching, arching, attaching, beaching, bleaching, branching, breaching, broaching, bunching, catching, clinching, clutching, coaching, crouching, crunching, dispatching, ditching, drenching, encroaching, enriching, entrenching, etching, fetching, flinching, hatching, hitching, impeaching, inching, itching, latching, launching, leaching, lunching, lurching, lynching, marching, matching, munching, overarching, overreaching, patching, pinching, pitching, poaching, preaching, punching, quenching, ranching, reaching, researching, retouching, retrenching, scorching, scratching, screeching, searching, sketching, slouching, snatching, snitching, stanching, stitching, stretching, switching, teaching, torching, touching, twitching, unflinching, vouching, watching, witching, wrenching. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-g-h-i-l-n" | |
-1 letter: leching. | |
-2 letters: blench, eching, lichen. | |
-3 letters: begin, being, belch, bench, bilge, binge, chiel, chile, chine, cline, cling, genic, hinge, ingle, neigh, niche. | |
-4 letters: bice, bile, bine, blin, ceil, chin, cine, elhi, gibe, gien, glen, glib, heil, inch, lech, lice, lich, lien, line, ling, nice, nigh. | |
-5 letters: beg, bel, ben, big, bin, cel, chi, cig, eng. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-g-h-i-l-n" | |
+1 letter: bleaching, blenching. | |
+2 letters: bechalking, beclothing. | |
+3 letters: bellyaching. | |
+4 letters: beseechingly, bewitchingly, childbearing, nightclubbed, nightclubber. | |
+5 letters: biotechnology, changeability, childbearings, nightclubbers, overbleaching. | |
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