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Definition: BURDENING |
BURDENINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Burden |
Date "BURDENING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Metallurgy | The selection and regulation of the proportions of ore, flux, coke, to obtain the correct blast furnace charge. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BURDENING |
| Specialty definitions using "BURDENING": burdening the furnace. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In order to prevent the majority of these "false alarms" from burdening the system for followup diagnostic evaluation, a second or confirmatory screen seems desirable. (references) | |
Business | The latter option could result in Norway increasing its own emissions of air pollutants, burdening its ability to meet Kyoto Protocol commitments. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BURDENING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BURDENING" is used about 13 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% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "BURDENING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 负担 (Born, Borne, Burden, Burdened). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | chargering (charging, filling, to burden, to charge, to fill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | definiëren van de laadmaterialen (to burden). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | alourdissant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | beschwerend, belastend (cumbering, damning, encumbering, incriminating, incriminatory, irksome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | σύνθεση φορτίου (to burden). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | טעון (argument, fraught, laden, loaded, needing, pleading, reasoning, requiring, shearling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | membeban. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 짐을 지움. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urdeningbay preparação da carga (to burden). (various references) preparación de la carga (to burden). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "BURDENING": disburdening, overburdening, unburdening. (additional references) | |
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"BURDENING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baddening, barkening. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BURDENING" (pronounced ber"duning) |
| 5 | -d u n i ng | abandoning, broadening, deadening, gardening, hardening, maddening, pardoning, saddening, widening. |
| 4 | -u n i ng | apportioning, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, bargaining, battening, beckoning, blackening, bludgeoning, brightening, burgeoning, captioning, cautioning, championing, cheapening, christening, coarsening, commissioning, conditioning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, deafening, decommissioning, deepening, determining, disciplining, disheartening, disillusioning, enlightening, envisioning, examining, fashioning, fastening, fattening, flattening, freshening, frightening, functioning, glistening, happening, hastening, heartening, heightening, imagining, imprisoning, jettisoning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, likening, listening, loosening, malfunctioning, margining, mentioning, motioning, opening, orphaning, partitioning, petitioning, poisoning, positioning, provisioning, questioning, quickening, rationing, reasoning, reawakening, reckoning, reconditioning, reexamining, reopening, repositioning, ripening, ruining, sanctioning, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shortening, sickening, siphoning, slackening, softening, stationing, stiffening, straightening, strengthening, summoning, sweetening, thickening, threatening, tightening, toughening, unquestioning, vacationing, weakening, whitening, worsening. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, awning, ballooning, banning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, boning, branning, brining, Browning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, careening, cartooning, chaining, chaperoning, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, cocooning, coining, combining, complaining, concerning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, dawning, declining, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disdaining, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, entertaining, evening, explaining, fanning, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, frowning, gaining, ginning, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, headlining, honing, Horning, housecleaning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, lightning, lining, loaning, machining, maintaining, Manning, meaning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, mourning, obtaining, opining, ordaining, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, penning, pertaining, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, postponing, preening, preplanning, pruning, quarantining, raining, realigning, reassigning, reclining, redefining, redesigning, redlining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, running, scanning, screening, shining, shunning, signing, sinning, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stoning, straining, streamlining, stunning, sunning, sustaining, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thinning, toning, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unreasoning, Vining, waning, warning, weaning, whining, wining, winning, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-g-i-n-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: enduring. | |
-2 letters: bending, burning, dungier, durning, enduing, enuring, grinned, inurned, rending. | |
-3 letters: bedrug, beduin, begird, benign, binder, binged, binger, binned, bridge, brined, budger, budgie, bunged, burden, burdie, buried, burned, burnie, dinger, dinner, dunner, during, ending, endrin, engird, gerund, ginned, ginner, girned, guider, gunned, gunner, inbred, inured, nudger, rebind, redbug, reding, ringed, rubied, ruined. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-g-i-n-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: blundering, rebounding. | |
+2 letters: unburdening, underbuying. | |
+3 letters: blunderingly, disburdening, underbidding, underbudding. | |
+4 letters: outrebounding, overburdening. | |
+5 letters: bildungsromane, counterbidding, disencumbering, dumbfoundering, groundbreaking, superabounding. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 55 52 44 45 4E 49 4E 47 |
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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 01010101 01010010 01000100 01000101 01001110 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B U R D E N I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0055 0052 0044 0045 004E 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)365552383948434841 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , kineser, Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, 중국, chinês, chino |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | 丹麦语, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, עו'ת שמרים, " י, 덴마크, dinamarquês, danés |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, hollandsk, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, "ול "י, 네덜란", holandês, holandés |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, צרפתית, צרפתי, "랑스, francês, francés |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , tysker, Duitse, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, 'רמ ית, 'רמ י, 독일, alemão, alemán |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | 希腊语, 希臘語 , græker, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, 그리스, grego, griego |
Hebrew | אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק | 西伯来, 希伯來語 , joods, Hebreeuws, hébreu, hebräisch, Hebräer, εβραϊκόσ, εβραϊκά, εβραίοσ, עברי, עברית, hebreu, hebraico, hebreo |
Indonesian | 印度尼西亞語 , 印度尼西亚语, indoneser, Indonesisch, Indisch, Indonesiër, indonésien, Indonesier, Ινδονήσιος, 인도네시아, indonésio, indonésia, indonesio | |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , Koreaans, coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτικοσ, κορεάτησ, 한국, coréia, a língua coreana, coreano |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugiser, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, 포르투갈, português, portugués |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, Spaans, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, ספר"ית, ספר"י, 스페인, espanhol, español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, א 'לית, 영국, inglês, inglés |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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