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Definition: BURLING |
BURLINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Burl |
Crosswords: BURLING |
| English words defined with "BURLING": Burling iron. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BURLING": burling frame ♦ cloth inspector, cloth picker ♦ knot picker, cloth ♦ loom inspector ♦ slub picker, string picker, SUPERVISOR, BURLING AND JOINING ♦ WEAVING INSPECTOR. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "BURLING" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Manx (yacht). |
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BURLING" 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 |
| Burling | Last name | 1,000 | 14,969 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "BURLING": burling frame ♦ Burling iron. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
covington and burling | 104 |
burling | 8 |
burling coat factory | 7 |
burling instrument | 3 |
bank burling | 3 |
builder burling | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BURLING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | kontrolapparat til eftersyn (burling frame, perch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | table visiteuse (burling frame), table épinceter (burling frame), pupitre épinceter (burling frame). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Beleserahmen (burling frame, perch), Nopprahmen (burling frame, perch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | συσκευές ελέγχου για τον εντοπισμό υφαντικών λαθών (burling frame, perch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | tribunale (court, law court, tribunal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urlingbay mesa de revista (burling frame, perch). (various references) pupitre para despinzar (burling frame, perch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"BURLING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Berlanga, Berling, Berlingen, Beurling, birlinn, bueling, buring, Burlin, Sburelin, ubring. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BURLING" (pronounced ber"ling) |
| 4 | -er" l i ng | curling, hurling, pearling, sterling, swirling, twirling, unfurling, whirling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | ailing, ambling, angling, annealing, appalling, appealing, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, Belling, bicycling, billing, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chilling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drilling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hilling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, instilling, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, Melling, middling, milling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, misspelling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, raveling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, settling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, thrilling, throttling, Tilling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, trilling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, willing, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yearling, yelling, yodeling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-i-l-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: bluing, lubing, luring, ruling. | |
-2 letters: bring, bruin, burin, lungi, ruing, unrig. | |
-3 letters: birl, blin, blur, brig, brin, bung, burg, burl, burn, girl, girn, glib, grin, grub, iglu, ling, lung, nurl, ring, ruin, rung. | |
-4 letters: big, bin, bug, bun, bur, gib, gin, gnu, gul, gun, lib, lin, lug, nib, nil, nub, rib, rig, rin, rub. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-g-i-l-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: blurbing, blurring, blurting, bullring, burbling, burgling, rubbling, rumbling. | |
+2 letters: bullrings, burningly, crumbling, drumbling, grumbling, labouring, lumbering, rumblings, troubling. | |
+3 letters: blubbering, blundering, blurringly, blustering, bucklering, bulwarking, crumblings, inarguable, inarguably, rebuilding, redoubling, replumbing, slubbering, slumbering, unbridling. | |
+4 letters: antiburglar, belabouring, beliquoring, brutalising, brutalizing, burlesquing, furbelowing, grumblingly, lubricating, outbrawling, parbuckling, submarginal, subregional, tribulating, umbrellaing, unignorable, unlimbering. | |
+5 letters: antiburglary, beglamouring, begrudgingly, beleaguering, blueprinting, blunderingly, blusteringly, bullyragging, burglarizing, butterflying, curveballing, disturbingly, elucubrating, neurobiology, nightclubber, overbuilding, republishing, subculturing, unbridgeable, unforgivable, unscrambling, urbanologies, urbanologist. | |
| 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 55 52 4C 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 01010101 01010010 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B U R L I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0055 0052 004C 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)36555246434841 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, dinamarquês, danés |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, francês, francés |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | tysker, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, tedesco, alemão, alemán |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | græker, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, grego, griego |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italiener, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugiser, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, português, portugués |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, espanhol, español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, inglês, inglés |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Names: Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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