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Definition: CHASING |
CHASINGNoun1. The art of ornamenting metal by means of chasing tools; also, a piece of ornamental work produced in this way. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Chase |
Date "CHASING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Fine Arts | A decorative metal process involving surface modeling of metal from the front with the aid of various-shaped punches and a hammer. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Turning operation during which a screw thread is produced with a multi-point tool. The profiles of the cutting edges match the required screw thread profiles. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Following a vein by its range or direction. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: CHASINGSynonym: Pursuing. (additional references) |
Crosswords: CHASING |
| English words defined with "CHASING": Bow chaser ♦ Ciselure ♦ Toreutic ♦ Wolf dog. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CHASING": Alonzo of Aguilar ♦ Cemetery, chase pointers ♦ Fox ♦ gronked ♦ hexagonal die nut, Humble Cow ♦ Poultry ♦ rethreading die solid ♦ Squirrel ♦ tortoise. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | This is a woman chasing a man who stole her purse (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) I'm chasing this guy. (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben) If they ever try to trace any of those accounts, they're gonna end up chasing a figment of my imagination (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) Have you been chasing me your whole life only to fail now (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman) Cause I was chasing him with a fork (ALF; writing credit: Alberto Fischerman; Rodolfo Rabanal) | |
Lyrics | EVERYTHING FORM CHASING A CAT TO PISSING ON A TREE (Come Back In One Piece; performing artist: Aaliyah) Her then i'll go crazy, spending all my time just chasing (There She Goes; performing artist: Babyface) And if you go chasing rabbits (White Rabbit; performing artist: Jefferson Airplane) All my women in the house if you chasing cash (Southern Hospitality; performing artist: Ludacris) Instead of you chasing me (Girl Next Door; performing artist: Musiq Soulchild) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Chasing Papi (2003) 1800 Seconds: Chasing Canada's Snowbirds (2002) Chasing the Big Ones 6 (2001) Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream (1995) Chasing the Moon (1990) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | NSSL Mobile Laboratories for storm chasing. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). |  | NSSL/University of Oklahoma mobile radar trucks for storm chasing. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). |
 | Project Vortex -Probe 5. Chasing the storm. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). |  | 19th Century cyanotype photographic print of an oil painting by R.S. Floyd, depicting CSS Florida chasing a merchant sailing ship, after having set another prize afire (in the right distance). This may depict the events of 10 July 1864, when Florida took four prizes off the Eastern Shore of Maryland: the bark General Berry, which was captured first and burned; the bark (not a ship as shown here) Zelinda, captured second and burned later in the day; the schooner Howard, which was bonded and released with prisoners from previous captures; and the steamer Electric Spark, which was scuttled during the following night. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Line engraving from "The Illustrated London News", 23 January 1847, entitled "Wreck of the American Brig 'Somers'.", depicting Somers on her beam ends after she capsized off Vera Cruz, Mexico, while chasing a blockade runner. Credit: NAVY. |  | Fire engines putting out flames, firemen chasing man whose hatchet fell on hose, hose wetting man, fireman putting out flames. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Turkey chasing cherubs through the word "LIFE". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Chasing the water wagon. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Senator D.B. Hill chasing "Presidency" phantom while his Senate duties gather cobwebs. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Chasing the Rebs through Strasburg. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Chasing birds" by Frank P.J. Van Haalen Commentary: "Dutch police on patrol in Scheveningen harbor, Holland, The Netherlands." | "Chasing Sunrise Down Under 3" by Igor Kasalovic Commentary: "It was quite an early start but I was treated to a beautiful sunrise which kinda made up for the really early start." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption |
 | Recess; play; scream; jungle gym; swing set; run; jump; chase; chasing. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Barry Goldwater | If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Burma | Wasteful consumption and expensive capital outlays with dubious returns have added to inflationary pressures (i.e., lots of money chasing after a limited supply of goods and services, fueling price rises). (references) |
Human Rights | Gambia | Other paramilitary officers arrived at the scene in riot gear and started beating and chasing members of the crowd. (references) |
Chad | The attack on Abdelkader, which occurred while the military allegedly was chasing a suspected thief through the school grounds, was unprovoked. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TORTOISE, n. A creature thoughtfully created to supply occasion for the following lines by the illustrious Ambat Delaso: TO MY PET TORTOISE My friend, you are not graceful -- not at all; Your gait's between a stagger and a sprawl. Nor are you beautiful: your head's a snake's To look at, and I do not doubt it aches. As to your feet, they'd make an angel weep. 'Tis true you take them in whene'er you sleep. No, you're not pretty, but you have, I own, A certain firmness -- mostly you're [sic] backbone. Firmness and strength (you have a giant's thews) Are virtues that the great know how to use -- I wish that they did not; yet, on the whole, You lack -- excuse my mentioning it -- Soul. So, to be candid, unreserved and true, I'd rather you were I than I were you. Perhaps, however, in a time to be, When Man's extinct, a better world may see Your progeny in power and control, Due to the genesis and growth of Soul. So I salute you as a reptile grand Predestined to regenerate the land. Father of Possibilities, O deign To accept the homage of a dying reign! In the far region of the unforeknown I dream a tortoise upon every throne. I see an Emperor his head withdraw Into his carapace for fear of Law; A King who carries something else than fat, Howe'er acceptably he carries that; A President not strenuously bent On punishment of audible dissent -- Who never shot (it were a vain attack) An armed or unarmed tortoise in the back; Subject and citizens that feel no need To make the March of Mind a wild stampede; All progress slow, contemplative, sedate, And "Take your time" the word, in Church and State. O Tortoise, 'tis a happy, happy dream, My glorious testudinous regime! I wish in Eden you'd brought this about By slouching in and chasing Adam out. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Madonna | Sure, I mean, when people start chasing you down the street, and I never had a moment of privacy, you know, or when people started taking shots at me and being nasty in the press. Things like that. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "CHASING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 96.84% of the time. "CHASING" is used about 727 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) | 96.84% | 704 | 9,502 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.37% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.96% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.82% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 727 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "CHASING": chasing leader ♦ chasing tool ♦ cylindrical thread chasing cutter ♦ Flat chasing. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CHASING": chasing-up. | |
Ending with "CHASING": promotion-chasing, title-chasing. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "CHASING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | منقوش (engraved, incised, inscribed, variegated), نقاش (chaser, explanation, rap, talking), نقش (carve, carving, chisel, chiselling, engrave, engraving, headpiece, incise, incision, inscribe, inscription, lettering, picture). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | релефно украшение (embossment), гравиране (engraving, incision), гонене (persecution, prosecution, pursuit), гонитба (chase, hue and cry, hunting, pursuit), преследване (chase, drive, manhunt, persecution, prosecution, pursuit, seeking), издълбано украшение. (various references) | |
Chinese | 追逐 (Chase, Chased, hound, Hounded, Hounding). (various references) | |
Czech | stíhání (manhunt, pursuit). (various references) | |
Danish | ciselering, gevindskæring m.overløber. (various references) | |
Dutch | ciseleren, draadstrelen. (various references) | |
Finnish | kampaterällä kierteittäminen. (various references) | |
French | ciselure (chiselling). (various references) | |
German | Ziselierung, ziselierend, jagend (coursing, hawking, hounding, hunting, scudding), Gewindestrählen. (various references) | |
Greek | λάξευση. (various references) | |
Hungarian | csavarvágás, csavarmetszés, cizellálás (metal chasing), vadászrepülõgép (fighter), trébelés (embossing, milling), sávozás, homorítás, hajlítás (bending, bowing, flex, flexion, flexure, inflection, inflexion, plication), foglalat (casing, digest, faucet, girdle, holder, lamp socket, mount, mounting, setting, socket, summary), drágakő befoglalása, domborítás (embossing). (various references) | |
Italian | cesellatura. (various references) | |
Korean | 쫓m. (various references) | |
Manx | shooghey (shoo), frainnaghey, clohghey (drive). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | asingchay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cinzelagem (cutting), cinzeladura, caça (bird, chase, chevy, fighter, game animal, hunt, pursuit, quest, wildlife), perseguição (chase, follow, persecution, pursuit, quest), abertura de roscas com pente de roscar. (various references) | |
Romanian | alungare. (various references) | |
Russian | резная работа (carving, fretwork), преследование (chase, persecution, pursuance, victimization). (various references) | |
Scottish | ruagadh (pursuing). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | jurnjava (clutter, hurry, rush, scurry). (various references) | |
Spanish | cazador (destroyer, gun, Hunter, huntsman, shooter). (various references) | |
Turkish | takip etme (consecution, follow up, tracing), takip (chase, follow up, hunting, prosecution, pursuance, pursuit, tracing). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | різьбярство, гравірування (engraving, etching), погоня (chase, chivvy, chivy, race), переслідування (chase, drive, persecution, pursuance, pursuit, trail). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Samuel Chapter 17, Verse 53 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai anestreyan andreV israhl ekklinonteV opisw twn allofulwn kai katepatoun taV parembolaV autwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et revertentes filii Israhel postquam persecuti fuerant Philistheos invaserunt castra eorum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And the sonis of Yrael turnynge ayen, after that thei hadden pursued the Philisteis, thei asseilden the tentis of hem. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And the children of Israel returned from chasing the Philistines, and they plundered their tents. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Then the children of Israel came back from going after the Philistines, and took their goods from the tents. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 1 Samuel Chapter 17, Verse 53 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang mga anak sa Israel namauli gikan sa paglutos sa mga Filistehanon, ug ilang gitulis ang ilang campo. |
| Croatian | Nato se Izraelci vratiše iz te žestoke potjere za Filistejcima i opljaèkaše njihov tabor. |
| Danish | Derpå vendte Israeliterne tilbage fra Forfølgelsen af Filisterne og plyndrede deres Lejr. |
| Dutch | Daarna keerden de kinderen Israels om, van het hittig najagen der Filistijnen, en zij beroofden hun legers. |
| Finnish | Sitten israelilaiset palasivat ajamasta filistealaisia takaa ja ryöstivät heidän leirinsä. |
| French | Et les enfants d`Israël revinrent de la poursuite des Philistins, et pillèrent leur camp. |
| German | Und die Kinder Israel kehrten um von dem Nachjagen der Philister und beraubten ihr Lager. |
| Haitian Creole | Se lè sa a moun pèp Izrayèl yo sispann kouri dèyè moun Filisti yo, yo kase tèt tounen. Yo fè yon gwo piyay nan kan moun Filisti yo. |
| Hungarian | Visszatérének azután Izráel fiai a Filiszteusok üldözésébõl, és feldúlták azoknak táborát. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Setelah itu orang Israel kembali dari mengejar orang Filistin, lalu merampas isi perkemahan mereka. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Setelah itu maka berbaliklah bani Israel dari pada sangat mengusir orang Filistin, lalu dirampasinya akan segala tempat tentaranya. |
| Italian | Quando gli Israeliti furono di ritorno dall'inseguimento dei Filistei, saccheggiarono il loro campo. |
| Maori | Na ka hoki nga tama a Iharaira i te whai i nga Pirihitini, na kei te pahua i to ratou puni. |
| Norwegian | Så forfulgte ikke Israels barn filistrene lenger, men vendte tilbake og plyndret deres leir. |
| Portuguese | Depois voltaram os filhos de Israel de perseguirem os filisteus, e despojaram os seus arraiais. |
| Rumanian | Wi copiii lui Israel s`au kntors dela urmqrirea Filistenilor, wi le-au jqfuit tabqra. |
| Spanish | Cuando los hijos de Israel volvieron de perseguir a los filisteos, les saquearon su campamento. |
| Swedish | Sedan Israels barn sålunda häftigt hade förföljt filistéerna, vände de tillbaka och plundrade deras läger. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CHASING": chasings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "CHASING": enchasing, prepurchasing, purchasing, repurchasing, steeplechasing. (additional references) | |
Words containing "CHASING": steeplechasings. (additional references) | |
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"CHASING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chahine, chaseing, Chashni, Chasin, Chassagne, Chassigny, chating, chawing, cheasing, chesting, Chisango, chisping, chosing, Chunsina, chuseing, chusing, hasing, Kamsing, Kasenga, khamsin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CHASING" (pronounced khā"sing) |
| 4 | -ā" s i ng | basing, bracing, casing, debasing, defacing, displacing, effacing, embracing, erasing, facing, pacing, placing, racing, replacing, retracing, spacing, tracing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | annexing, announcing, accessing, acquiescing, addressing, advancing, affixing, amassing, assessing, balancing, blessing, bouncing, boxing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, ceasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, commencing, compressing, condensing, conferencing, confessing, conversing, convincing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, dancing, decreasing, denouncing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispensing, dispersing, distancing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, embarrassing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enhancing, enticing, expensing, experiencing, expressing, faxing, fencing, financing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, influencing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, Lancing, lapsing, leasing, lensing, licensing, loosing, massing, menacing, mensing, messing, mincing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outdistancing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, policing, possessing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pronouncing, pulsing, reassessing, rebalancing, recessing, redressing, reducing, referencing, refinancing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, renouncing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, reversing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, seducing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, servicing, showcasing, silencing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, teleconferencing, tossing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, trouncing, unceasing, unconvincing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, videoconferencing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wincing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cashing. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-i-n-s" | |
-1 letter: aching, ashing, casing, chains, changs, chinas. | |
-2 letters: acing, cains, chain, chang, chias, china, chins, gains, gnash, hangs, nighs, sangh. | |
-3 letters: agin, ains, anis, asci, cain, cans, cash, chia, chin, chis, cigs, gain, gash, ghis, gins, hags, hang, hins, hisn, ichs, inch, nags, nigh, sain, sang, scag, scan, shag, shin, sigh, sign, sing, sinh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-h-i-n-s" | |
+1 letter: archings, chagrins, chasings, clashing, crashing, scathing. | |
+2 letters: chasseing, encashing, enchasing, hatchings, nightcaps, scarphing, searching, shackling, snatching, stanching, starching, teachings, yachtings. | |
+3 letters: archaising, cashiering, chamoising, champaigns, chastening, chastising, crashingly, escheating, gynarchies, hatchlings, hijackings, hopsacking, purchasing, scathingly, scraiching, scraighing, scratching, showcasing, staunching, stomaching. | |
+4 letters: backlashing, backwashing, chainsawing, champignons, changelings, charmingest, crawfishing, despatching, discharging, dispatching, franchising, graphicness, hopsackings, latchstring, mischarging, mismatching, mispatching, misteaching, researching, sandwiching, searchingly, shellacking, surcharging, unshackling, vouchsafing. | |
| 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. | |
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