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Definition: CARLING |
CARLINGNoun1. A short timber running lengthwise of a ship, from one transverse desk beam to another; also, one of the cross timbers that strengthen a hath; -- usually in pl. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | A short fore-and-aft timber or steel girder placed under a deck to strengthen it, used in the way of mooring bitts, winches, windlasses, hatchways, masts and so on. It may run continuously under the deck beams or intercostally. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CARLING |
| English words defined with "CARLING": Carline, Carling float, Carling Sunday. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CARLING": Carle. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | S.S. C.J. Carling.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "CARLING" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 88.07% of the time. "CARLING" is used about 176 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) | 88.07% | 155 | 25,240 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 8.52% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.27% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 1.14% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 176 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "CARLING": Carling float ♦ Carling Sunday. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CARLING": Carling-guscott. | |
| 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 |
carling switch | 100 | apollo carling hammersmith | 6 |
carling | 78 | carling port seabird | 6 |
port carling | 40 | carling motor | 6 |
bassett carling | 39 | bassett carling seguso | 5 |
carling technology | 32 | carling festival leeds | 5 |
carling black label | 16 | carling hotel lac | 5 |
carling lake | 15 | carling mazda | 5 |
port carling ontario | 14 | carling switch toggle | 4 |
carling lac | 13 | apollo carling | 4 |
apollo carling manchester | 11 | fa carling premiership | 4 |
carling golf lake | 11 | john carling | 4 |
hotel du lac carling | 10 | academy birmingham carling | 3 |
carling festival | 10 | carling tech | 3 |
basset carling | 8 | carling elizabeth | 3 |
carling weekend | 7 | carling lake hotel | 3 |
carling cup | 7 | julia carling | 3 |
carling premiership | 7 | carling lager | 3 |
academy carling glasgow | 6 | brewery carling | 3 |
carling beer | 6 | fa carling | 3 |
academy carling | 6 | carling township | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "CARLING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hebrew | װל×' ׂב. (various references) | ||||
Italian | Anguilla (Anguilla, common eel, eel, European eel, freshwater eel, girder, river eel). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | arlingcay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CARLING": carlings. (additional references) | |
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"CARLING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cadling, Carlini, Carlungie, Catling, Crailing, kerling, Larling, Sarling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CARLING" (pronounced kÄ"rling) |
| 5 | -Ä" r l i ng | darling, Marling, snarling, Sparling, starling. |
| 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, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, 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, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, 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, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, instilling, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, 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, pearling, 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, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, spelling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, 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, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, 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 "a-c-g-i-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: arcing, caring, carlin, garlic, lacing, racing. | |
-2 letters: acing, algin, align, argil, cairn, cigar, clang, cling, garni, glair, gnarl, grail, grain, liang, ligan, linac, linga, naric. | |
-3 letters: agin, airn, anil, aril, cain, carl, carn, clag, clan, crag, gain, girl, girn, glia, gnar, gran, grin, laic, lain, lair, lang, lari, liar, ling, lira, nail, narc. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: carlings, caroling, clearing, craaling, cradling, crawling, relacing. | |
+2 letters: articling, bracingly, carolling, carpingly, cellaring, clamoring, clavering, clearings, clearwing, collaring, crackling, crankling, declaring, lackering, neuralgic, parceling, rackingly, recalling, recoaling, replacing, rescaling, scrawling, trachling. | |
+3 letters: allergenic, becrawling, calipering, calorizing, caprioling, caracoling, carpooling, charmingly, clabbering, clambering, clamouring, clangoring, clarifying, clarioning, clattering, clearwings, corelating, corralling, cracklings, craniology, crashingly, curtailing, grandchild, granulitic, lacerating, lacquering, laryngitic, marcelling, parcelling, placarding, preplacing, reclaiming, reclasping, recleaning, relocating, retackling, scrabbling, scrambling, trauchling, ulcerating. | |
| 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)43 41 52 4C 49 4E 47 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, 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)01000011 01000001 01010010 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C A R L I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0041 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)37355246434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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