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Definition: CHALKING |
CHALKINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Chalk |
Date "CHALKING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1876. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemical Industry | The formation of soft white powder on the surface of a finish which may be removed by friction of the finger or similar methods. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Development of a loose, powdery surface due to destruction of the binding medium and subsequent release of pigment and filler particles. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | The development of loose removable powder at or just beneath a coating surface. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | CHALKING. The amusement above described. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CHALKING |
| Specialty definitions using "CHALKING": Chalk, Chalks ♦ titanium dioxide pigments. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Pool player chalking up points in barroom, Pilottown, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The strong performance by this sector, which was the star performer chalking up an impressive 15.3% growth in 1998, helped to offset the decline in the electronics sector at large. (references) | |
Economic History | Thailand | The Thai economy returned to modest growth in 1999, chalking up a 4.2% gain in real GDP. This constituted a solid rebound from the sharp 10.2% fall the economy suffered in 1998, the year after financial crisis struck Thailand and spread through Asia. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CHALKING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CHALKING" is used about 17 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% | 17 | 85,106 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
war chalking | 25 |
chalking | 12 |
chalking id | 3 |
chalking ids | 3 |
chalking paint | 3 |
chalking scrapbook | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CHALKING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | ç"¨ç²‰ç¬"写 (Chalked). (various references) | |
Danish | affarvning/mattering (frosting, whitening). (various references) | |
Finnish | valkaisu (bleaching, dealbation, fading, frosting, whitening), valkaiseminen (frosting, whitening). (various references) | |
French | blanchissement. (various references) | |
German | ankreidend (chalking up). (various references) | |
Greek | ξάσπÏισμα (frosting, whitening). (various references) | |
Italian | scrivendo/marcando col gesso. (various references) | |
Manx | kelkey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alkingchay.(various references) | |
Spanish | desgaste por fricción (bead, chafing, frosting, scuffing, whitening). (various references) | |
Swedish | färgändring vid nötning (frosting, whitening). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "CHALKING": bechalking. (additional references) | |
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"CHALKING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Calkin, chacking, Chaikin, Chalkin, chalkings, charking, Chaykin, cheeking, halking, Kalkini, Khalkhiin, Schulkins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CHALKING" (pronounced khô"king) |
| 4 | -ô" k i ng | balking, caulking, gawking, Hawking, squawking, stalking, talking, walking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | antismoking, aching, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squeaking, stacking, staking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: hackling. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-i-k-l-n" | |
-1 letter: calking, hacking, lacking. | |
-2 letters: aching, caking, calkin, haling, lacing, laking. | |
-3 letters: acing, algin, align, chain, chalk, chang, china, chink, clang, clank, cling, clink, kiang, laich, laigh, liang, ligan, linac, linga. | |
-4 letters: agin, akin, anil, ankh, cain, calk, chia, chin, clag, clan, gain, gink, glia, hack, haik, hail, hang, hank, hick, hila, ilka, inch, kail. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-h-i-k-l-n" | |
+1 letter: shackling. | |
+2 letters: bechalking. | |
+3 letters: backhauling, backlashing, shellacking, unshackling. | |
+4 letters: backlighting, shellackings. | |
+5 letters: blacksmithing, laughingstock, stickhandling, swashbuckling. | |
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