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Definition: BING |
BINGNoun1. A heap or pile; as, a bing of wood. |
Date "BING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references) |
Etymology: Bing \Bing\, noun. [Compare to Icelandic bingr, Swedish binge, German beige, beuge. Compare to Prov. English bink bench, and bench coal the uppermost stratum of coal.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | To put coal in wagons or in stacks at the surface. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | BING. To go. Cant. Bing avast; get you gone. Binged avast in a darkmans; stole away in the night. Bing we to Rumeville: shall we go to London?. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assemblage | Accumulation; (store); congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid; bing; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation, cumulation; glomeration, agglomeration; conglobation; conglomeration, conglomerate; coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta; quantity; (greatness). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: BING |
| English words defined with "BING": bing cherry, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope ♦ hope ♦ Leslie Townes Hope. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BING": bing hole, bing ore, bing place ♦ ConstraintLisp ♦ dross bing ♦ redd bing. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "BING" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (Bing), Italian (Bing), Manx (committee, jury; tuneful, musical, shrill, sweet). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Bada bing, bada bing, bang, boom. (The Usual Suspects; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie) Bada bing, bada boom. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Because that's good parenting, right Bing Crosby? (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) No, I'm sorry Bing you've used up your quota. (Baby Bottleneck; writing credit: Warren Foster) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Huo bing (1971) Bing tian xia nu (1971) Zarabanda Bing Bing (1966) Bing Crosby in Dublin (1965) The Bing Crosby Show (1964) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [Richard J. Bing, M.D.].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | The Goliah, at Wadsworth, Bing Bend of Truckee River.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Paramount presents Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, William Bendix [and] Sir Cedric Hardwicke in Mark Twain's "A Yankee in King Arthur's Court".Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Women at war (Mrs. Smuda). She's a mother and a grandmother, she works at a U.S. arsenal tapering shells for fifty-millimeter anti-aircraft guns and she loves listening to news broadcasts and Bing Crosby. Eva Smuda, fifty-five, who came to America from Po.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cherry orchards near Emmett, Gem County, Idaho. About 200 carloads of black bing cherries are shipped from Idaho yearly.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Bing. | | Bing, high to low slide. |
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Economic History | Denmark | The Royal Danish Porcelain Factory and Bing & Grondahl, renowned for the quality of their porcelain and ceramics, export their products worldwide. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BING" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "BING" is used about 56 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) | 71.43% | 40 | 54,274 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 23.21% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.79% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 56 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BING" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bing | Last name | 2,000 | 7,047 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "BING": bing cherry ♦ Bing Crosby ♦ throb bing. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "BING": bing-bong-a. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bing crosby | 341 | bada bing girl | 11 |
bing cherry | 131 | bing bing li | 10 |
anine bing | 104 | bing bing fan | 10 |
bing | 86 | bing crosby lyrics | 9 |
bada bing | 70 | bing life | 9 |
bing and grondahl | 54 | bing crosby internet | 8 |
bing bong | 41 | bing park | 8 |
bing cherry recipe | 31 | bing crosby radio | 8 |
bing cherry tree | 31 | bing crosby discography | 8 |
bing carburetor | 29 | bing crosby picture | 8 |
bing russell | 25 | bing helados | 8 |
bing chandler | 24 | bing carb | 8 |
hu bing | 19 | bing crosby song | 7 |
bing lee | 16 | bing cherry pie | 7 |
steve bing | 15 | bing maloney golf course | 7 |
the bing group | 15 | bing crosby internet museum | 7 |
bing crosby biography | 13 | bing steel | 7 |
dave bing | 13 | bing calorie cherry | 6 |
bing crosby mp3 | 13 | bing cherry jam | 6 |
bing board surf | 11 | bing dansk | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "BING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | ' , (heap, heaps, PILE, Piled, Piles, stack, stacks). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Bing's tegn (Bing sign), Bing's forsøg (Bing entotic test), Bing-Neel's sygdom (Bing-Neel syndrome), paradox ankelreflex (Bing reflex, paradoxical ankle reflex), harpestrengsfaenomen (harps phenomenon Bing), erythroprosopalgia Bing (erythroprosopalgia Bing), acrodystonia traumatica Bing (Bing traumatic acrodystonia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wanneer een trillende stemvork op de punt van het mastoïed geplaatst,niet meer wordt gehoord,geschiedt dit voor een zekere tijd nog wel na afsluiting van beide oren (Bing entotic test), wanneer deze normaal is,berust doofheid op een stoornis in de perceptie (Bing entotic test), traumatische acrodystonie van Bing (Bing traumatic acrodystonia), teken van Bing (Bing sign), syndroom van Bing-von Neel (Bing-Neel syndrome), reflex van Bing (Bing reflex, paradoxical ankle reflex), erythroprosopalgie (erythroprosopalgia Bing), erythroprosopalgia (erythroprosopalgia Bing), deze periode van secundaire perceptie is verkort bij stoornissen in het geluid-geleidende gedeelte (Bing entotic test). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | syndrome de Bing-Neel (Bing-Neel syndrome), signe de la corde de harpe (harps phenomenon Bing), signe de Bing (Bing sign), réflexe paradoxal du cou-de-pied (Bing reflex), acrodystonie traumatique de Bing (Bing traumatic acrodystonia), érythroprosopalgie de Bing (erythroprosopalgia Bing), épreuve de Bing (Bing entotic test). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | bing (paper, ticket). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σύνδρομο Bing-Neel (Bing-Neel syndrome), σημείο Bing (Bing sign), ξεχωριστή σύσπαση διαφόρων μυικών δεσμίδων του ίδιου μυός (harps phenomenon Bing), πείραμα Bing (Bing entotic test), παλλομένοσ (pulsative, throb bing, vibrant), φαινόμενο άρπας (harps phenomenon Bing), ερυθροπροσωπαλγία του Bing (erythroprosopalgia Bing), αντανακλαστικό Bing (Bing reflex, paradoxical ankle reflex), τραυματική ακροδυστονία Bing (Bing traumatic acrodystonia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bing. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ダ行 (chain, chain letter, cheap, cheer, cheerleader, cheese, chief, Classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "dzu", cook in a microwave, ding, interjection, team, teamwork). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | チーン (cook in a microwave, ding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ingbay teste de Bing (Bing entotic test), sinal de Bing (Bing sign), sinal da corda de harpa (harps phenomenon Bing), síndrome de Bing-Neel (Bing-Neel syndrome), reflexo paraxodal do tornozelo (Bing reflex, paradoxical ankle reflex), eritroprosopalgia de Bing (erythroprosopalgia Bing), acrodistonia traumática de Bing (Bing traumatic acrodystonia). (various references) signo de la cuerda de arpa (harps phenomenon Bing), signo de Bing (Bing sign), síndrome de Bing-Neel (Bing-Neel syndrome), reflejo paradójico del tobillo (Bing reflex, paradoxical ankle reflex), prueba entótica de Bing (Bing entotic test), eritroprosopalgia de Bing (erythroprosopalgia Bing), acrodistonía traumática de Bing (Bing traumatic acrodystonia). (various references) Купа (Barrow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BING": binge, binged, bingeing, binger, bingers, binges, binging, bingo, bingos. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "BING": absorbing, adsorbing, ascribing, backstabbing, barbing, beachcombing, bedaubing, bedumbing, benumbing, bibbing, blabbing, blobbing, blubbing, blurbing, bobbing, bombing, boobing, bribing, cabbing, chemisorbing, circumscribing, climbing, clubbing, cobwebbing, combing, confabbing, conglobing, conscribing, crabbing, cribbing, crumbing, cubing, curbing, currycombing, dabbing, daubing, demobbing, describing, desorbing, dibbing, disrobing, disturbing, divebombing, drabbing, dribbing, drubbing, dubbing, dumbing, ebbing, englobing, enrobing. (additional references) | |
Words containing "BING": absorbingly, backstabbings, bombings, bubinga, bubingas, combings, cribbings, curbings, disturbingly, drubbings, dubbings, gibingly, harbinger, harbingered, harbingering, harbingers, jibingly, moneygrubbings, numbingly, plumbings, ribbings, rubbings, skibobbings, slubbings, stabbings, stockjobbings, subbings, tubings, webbings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "ing": Bring, Ging, Thring. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-i-n" | |
-1 letter: big, bin, gib, gin, nib. | |
-2 letters: bi, in. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-g-i-n" | |
+1 letter: begin, being, binge, bingo, boing, bring. | |
+2 letters: abying, baaing, bagnio, baking, baling, baning, baring, basing, bating, baying, begins, beings, benign, biding, biggin, biking, binged, binger, binges, bingos, biogen, biting, bluing, boding, boning, booing, boring, bowing, boxing, brings, busing, buying, cubing, ebbing, gabion, gibbon, gibing, gibson, globin, goblin, gybing, jibing, lubing, orbing, robing, tubing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 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 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 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)36434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Sounds 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Names: Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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