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Definition: CASINGS |
CASINGSNoun plural1. Dried dung of cattle used as fuel. |
Date "CASINGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
Etymology: Casings \Ca"sings\, noun. plural Dried dung of cattle used as fuel. [Provincial English]. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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 | A Japanese plane plunges into the sea ahead of USS Columbia (CL-56), as she steams in column with other cruisers during the attack on Bougainville, 1-2 November 1943. Note 6"/47 gun turrets, with six-inch shell casings on deck below them. Credit: NAVY. |  | Firing on board USS Hornet (CV-12), circa February 1945, probably during gunnery practice. The original picture caption identifies the photo as having been taken during Task Force 58's raid on Japan, 16 February 1945. However, helmetless members of the gun crew, and rolled up shirt sleeves, strongly indicate that the occasion was in warmer climes and not while in combat. View looks aft on the port side, with the carrier's port quarter 5"/38 guns just beyond the 40mm mount. Note ready-service ammunition and spent shell casings at right; men passing 4-round clips to loaders at left. Credit: NAVY. |
 | "Aftermath -- Amidst scattered brass casings, a lone sailor observes the enemy coastline as the cruiser USS Manchester (CL-83), her shore bombardment completed, steams away from Wonsan Harbor." Photo and caption released by Commander Naval Forces Far East, under date of 7 July 1953. A heavy cruiser is visible in the center distance, beyond Manchester's fantail. Credit: NAVY. |  | Looking up in an oil derrick. Roughneck inserting lengths of pipe into the elevator for pulling the casings. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Metal casings for concrete piles that will serve as foundations for a new steel mill. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | New Britain, Connecticut. Incendiary bomb casings being made at the Stanley plant. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Pile o' Lights" by Christie Ortiz Commentary: "Box of discarded lights & lamp casings for projectors used in abandoned burlesque theater in Baltimore, MD. Captured with HP 318 digital camera." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Health | This can occur if your well has cracked casings, is poorly constructed, or is too shallow. (references) | |
Business | The bigger lead smelters also arrange for the recycling of the polypropylene plastic battery casings. (references) | |
Computer casings, microphones, speakers, mouse and other related hardware are imported from Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia and other Asian countries. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CASINGS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CASINGS" is used about 44 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 (plural) | 100% | 44 | 51,500 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "CASINGS": sausage casings. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "CASINGS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 框 (Casing). (various references) | |
Danish | tarme. (various references) | |
Dutch | darmen. (various references) | |
Finnish | suolattu suoli (salted casings, salted skins), naudan suoli (beef casings, beef skin), kuivattu suoli (dried casings, dried skins). (various references) | |
French | boyaux. (various references) | |
German | Därme (guts), Überzüge (suffusions), überzüge (coatings, loose covers, suffusions). (various references) | |
Greek | έντερα για παρασκευή αλλαντικών, έντερα ζώων. (various references) | |
Italian | budella (gut, guts). (various references) | |
Korean | 케이싱 (Casing). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | asingscay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tripas para salsicharia (sausage casings). (various references) | |
Spanish | tripas (entrails, gut, guts, innards, insides, inwards, tripes). (various references) | |
Swedish | torkad tarm (dried casings, dried skins), saltad tarm (salted casings, salted skins), nöttarm (beef casings, beef skin). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"CASINGS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caatingas, carings, Cassagnes, Causennis, cawings, cosings, cussings, easings, Kasenga, Keesings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CASINGS" (pronounced kā"singz) |
| 5 | -ā" s i ng z | facings. |
| 4 | -s i ng z | blessings, crossings, dressings, financings, fixings. |
| 3 | -i ng z | bearings, beatings, beginnings, beheadings, beings, belongings, Billings, boardings, bombings, bookings, borrowings, briefings, buildings, burnings, bushings, carjackings, carvings, castings, ceilings, clippings, closings, coatings, comings, couplings, coverings, cowlings, cravings, cuttings, darlings, dealings, doings, drawings, droppings, drownings, ducklings, dumplings, dwellings, earnings, earrings, earthlings, endings, engravings, etchings, evenings, everlastings, failings, fastenings, feedings, feelings, fightings, filings, fillings, findings, firings, fittings, flavorings, followings, forgings, frostings, furnishings, gatherings, goings, greetings, groupings, hangings, happenings, headings, hearings, helpings, herrings, hijackings, holdings, housings, hustings, innings, killings, landholdings, landings, lashings, leanings, leavings, leggings, lemmings, lightnings, linings, listings, livings, loadings, lodgings, longings, lynchings, mailings, makings, marketings, markings, meanings, meetings, misgivings, misunderstandings, moldings, moorings, mornings, mouldings, muggings, musings, nestlings, nothings, offerings, openings, outings, paintings, pickings, pilings, plantings, pleadings, poisonings, postings, posturings, printings, proceedings, publishings, puddings, railings, rankings, ratings, readings, recordings, rehearings, ridings, riggings, Rollings, rulings, rumblings, runnings, samplings, saplings, savings, sayings, schillings, scrapings, screenings, seasonings, seatings, seedlings, servings, settings, shadings, shavings, shillings, shipbuildings, shootings, shortcomings, showings, siblings, sightings, skillings, slayings, soundings, spellings, stabbings, standings, stockings, sufferings, surroundings, tailings, takings, teachings, tidings, toppings, trappings, trimmings, underlings, underpinnings, understandings, undertakings, uprisings, vikings, wanderings, warnings, weddings, whitings, winnings, workings, writings, wrongdoings, yearlings, yearnings. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-n-s-s" | |
-1 letter: assign, casing. | |
-2 letters: acing, cains, gains, sains, sasin, scags, scans, signs, sings, snags. | |
-3 letters: agin, ains, anis, asci, cain, cans, cigs, gain, gins, nags, sacs, sags, sain, sang, sans, scag, scan, sics, sign, sing, sins, snag. | |
-4 letters: ain, ais, ani, ass, can, cig, cis, gan, gas, gin, ins, nag, sac, sag, sic, sin, sis. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-n-s-s" | |
+1 letter: caginess, castings, chasings, classing, sackings, sacrings, spacings. | |
+2 letters: abscising, accessing, agnostics, caressing, chasseing, coastings, discasing, scannings, scrapings. | |
+3 letters: abscessing, analgesics, anglicises, anglicisms, backswings, caginesses, canvassing, caucussing, chastising, coassuming, compassing, cousinages, cragginess, crevassing, cuirassing, declassing, gymnastics, massacring, miscasting, misspacing, nostalgics, scantlings, showcasing, surceasing, surfacings. | |
+4 letters: agnosticism, associating, caressingly, classifying, coassisting, decussating, diagnostics, gracileness, graphicness, hopsackings, logicalness, misclassing, nasogastric, organicisms, organicists, ostracising, outclassing, scatterings, sergeancies, skyjackings, socialising, stagnancies, subagencies, subclassing. | |
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