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Definition: BLANKING |
BLANKINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Blank |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Cutting off the electron beam in a writing tube. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The suppression of the display of one or more display elements or segments. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Not displaying a character on the CRT("blank beam"). Source: European Union. (references) | |
Electrical Engineering | The suppression of the picture signal from a short time before, until a short time after, the synchronising pulse. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The portion of the television signal which occurs after one picture frame is sent and before the next one is transmitted. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Fine Arts | When pasted on a panel, a white paper mat known as a -surrounds the poster, setting it off like a picture in a frame. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Separation of a portion of a metal sheet by a continuous cut defining the full contour of the excised portion. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | Process of making a channel non effective for a desired interval. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| BL | English | Blanking | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: BLANKING |
| Specialty definitions using "BLANKING": automatic forming machine operator ♦ blanking die ♦ DIE SET-UP OPERATOR, PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS ♦ flow machine operator, FORMING-MACHINE OPERATOR, FORMING-MACHINE UPKEEP MECHANIC ♦ glass blower, machine forming ♦ H1 histone molecule ♦ pilot punch ♦ Random Access Memory Digital-to-Analog Converter, REBRANDER ♦ SUPERVISOR, DIALS ♦ upkeep mechanic. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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High Tech |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "BLANKING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "BLANKING" is used about 7 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) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "BLANKING": blanking bolt ♦ blanking die ♦ blanking interval ♦ blanking plate ♦ blanking signal ♦ steel blanking plate. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "BLANKING": blanking-off, blanking-portion. | |
| 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 |
fine blanking | 27 |
chemical blanking | 8 |
blanking metal | 7 |
blanking plate | 6 |
blanking | 5 |
blanking component | 3 |
blanking manufacture | 3 |
blanking punch | 3 |
blanking interval product specialised vertical | 3 |
blanking metal misa | 2 |
blanking die | 2 |
blanking changer gender plate | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BLANKING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 去 (Blanked). (various references) | |
Danish | blankning, udstansning (blank cutting, blank shearing, outline blanking, outline cutting, punched shape, punching), slukning (black-out, extinction, quenching, suppression, turn-off), slukkeinterval (blanking interval). (various references) | |
Dutch | bundelonderdrukkingstijd (blanking interval), bundelonderdrukkingsinterval (blanking interval), blokkeren (block, blockade), blinderen (masking, reverse clipping, shielding), blenkponsen (blank cutting, blank shearing), blanking, beeldsignaalonderdrukking (black-out, suppression), uitstansen (blanking and piercing, blanking two outlines, outline blanking, outline cutting), uitsnijden (blank cutting, blank shearing, blanking(USA), piercing(USA), punching), onderdrukkingstijd (blanking interval), onderdrukkingsonderbreking (blanking interval), onderdrukkingsinterval (blanking interval), onderdrukking (black-out, mute, suppression), donkersturing (beam suppression). (various references) | |
Finnish | sammutus (extinguishing, fire fighting, putting out), salpaaminen, muotoleikkuu (outline blanking, outline cutting), meisto (outline blanking, outline cutting), irtileikkaaminen (blank cutting, blank shearing, blanking(USA), piercing(USA), punching), irrottaminen (blank cutting, blank shearing, blanking(USA), loosening, piercing(USA), punching, slackening, slacking). (various references) | |
French | blocage (blockade, blocking), extinction (black out), découpage (outline blanking), découpage d'un flan (blank cutting, blank shearing), découpage d'un plan, détourage, decoupage a la presse, encadrement, suppression du faisceau (black-out), intervalle de suppression (blanking interval), intervalle de suppression de trame (blanking interval), marie-louise, matriçage (outline blanking), signal de suppression (black-out), suppression (black-out), effacement (black-out). (various references) | |
German | Dunkeltastung, leerend (depleting, emptying). (various references) | |
Greek | σβήσιμο (deletion), συσκότιση (blackout, curfew, darkening, obfuscation), σήμα πλήρους διακοπής (black-out, suppression), σήμα αμαύρωσης (black-out, suppression), φράξιμο (blinding, blockage of the filter, blocking, choking, clogging), φίμωση (gagging), απότμηση (blank cutting, blank shearing, wane), αποκοπή (abruption, abscission, amputation, apocope, recision, severance), διάστημα αμαύρωσης (blanking interval). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sorkitolás (horizontal blanking), kioltó jel (blanking signal). (various references) | |
Italian | bloccaggio (blockage, deadlock), tranciare (chopper, cut off, outline blanking, outline cutting), tagliare (blend, carve, chop, clip, cross, cut, cut across, cut down, cut off, fell, get cut, hack, hew, knife, mow, reap, short cut, slice, snip, trim), spegnimento (cutting off, open, quenching, shutdown, slaking, transient, turn-off), soppressione del fascio (black-out, suppression), soppressione (abolition, closure), occultazione (occultation, screening), mascheramento del fascio (black-out, suppression), intervallo di soppressione di trama (blanking interval), fustellare (outline blanking, outline cutting), cancellazione del fascio (black-out, suppression), cancellazione (abatement, annulment, cancellation, deletion, effacement). (various references) | |
Korean | 비움 (Emptying). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ankingblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bloqueio (block, blockade, bolting), supressão do feixe (black-out, suppression), supressão de imagem, supressão (cut, delete, effacement, obliteration, omission, stopping, suppression), limpeza (cleanliness, cleanness, cleansing, cleanup, comb-out, mop-up, neatness, purity, rubdown, scour, washing, wipe), intervalo de supressão da trama (blanking interval), extinção momentânea do feixe, corte (address, build, chop, cohort, court, courtship, cut, cutting edge, gash, hack, hackery, incision, intersection, kerf, make, nick, pen, scission, score, section, slash, swinery, tailoring). (various references) | |
Russian | гашение (damping, extinction, quenching). (various references) | |
Spanish | borrado (deleted, drafted, erased), bloqueo (block, blockade, blockage, deadlock, freezing, locking, tie up, whitewash), troquelado (outline blanking, outline cutting, punching), supresión del haz (black-out, suppression), supresión (abatement, abolition, cancellation, deletion, omission, removal, suppression), intervalo de supresión de trama (blanking interval), extinción (extinction, quenching), corte (blade, break, circumcision, concision, court, cutting, drop, edge, failure, hack, haircut, incision, kerf, length, Nick, notch, outage, paring, put down, retinue, scarf, section, snick). (various references) | |
Swedish | blockering (block, blockade, blocking, jam, obstruction), utstansning (outline blanking, outline cutting), släckning (extinction, quenching). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"BLANKING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: balnain, Bilainkin, blanding, Blankney, blanning, Blenkarne, Blenkin, Blenning. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BLANKING" (pronounced bla"ngking) |
| 6 | -l a" ng k i ng | clanking, flanking, planking. |
| 5 | -a" ng k i ng | banking, cranking, franking, nonbanking, ranking, spanking, tanking, thanking, yanking. |
| 4 | -ng k i ng | blinking, debunking, drinking, flunking, honking, junking, linking, plinking, plunking, reinking, rethinking, shrinking, sinking, stinking, unthinking, winking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | antismoking, aching, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flicking, flocking, forking, forsaking, freaking, frolicking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, plucking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shucking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tasking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-g-i-k-l-n-n" | |
-1 letter: ankling, balking, banking. | |
-2 letters: baking, baling, baning, laking. | |
-3 letters: algin, align, binal, blain, blank, blink, kiang, kibla, liang, ligan, linga. | |
-4 letters: agin, akin, anil, bail, balk, bang, bani, bank, bilk, blin, gain, gink, glia, glib, ilka, kail, kain, kiln, kina, king, lain, lang, lank, ling, link, linn, nail. | |
-5 letters: ail, ain, alb, ani, bag, bal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-g-i-k-l-n-n" | |
+2 letters: blackening, blanketing. | |
+3 letters: balkanizing, bankrolling, blackenings, linebacking. | |
+4 letters: linebackings. | |
| 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. | |
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