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COGITATING

Definition: COGITATING

COGITATING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Cogitate

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "COGITATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)


Crosswords: COGITATING

Etymologies containing "COGITATING": Cogitate. (references)

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Modern Usage: COGITATING

DomainUsage

Screenplays

She insists upon time to develop her personality, and she spends it in cogitating on which part of her body to paint next. (The Divorce of Lady X; writing credit: Gilbert Wakefield; Lajos Biró)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: COGITATING

"COGITATING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "COGITATING" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: COGITATING

Language Translations for "COGITATING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

nachdenkend (deliberating, meditating, thinking about), überlegend (deliberating, reasoning). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ogitatingcay

   

Russian 

  

обдумывать (chew, cogitate, cogitated, consider, contemplate, debate, deliberate, mull, perpend, ponder, premeditate, think of). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: COGITATING

Derivations

Words ending with "COGITATING": excogitating. (additional references)


Misspellings

"COGITATING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cogigating. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: COGITATING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-g-g-i-i-n-o-t-t"

-2 letters: citation, gigantic.

-3 letters: catting, coating, gaiting, gigaton, taction, titanic, toiting.

-4 letters: acting, action, agonic, atonic, caging, cation, citing, congii, coting, gating, gitano, gittin, intact, octant, otitic, titian, toting.

-5 letters: acing, acini, actin, aging, antic, attic, canto, coati, coign, conga, cotan, cotta, giant, gigot, going, gonia, icing, incog, ingot, ionic, octan, ontic, tacit, taint, tango.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-g-g-i-i-n-o-t-t"
 

+2 letters: excogitating.

 

+4 letters: conglutinating.

 

+5 letters: prognosticating.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: COGITATING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 4F 47 49 54 41 54 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    ---    --.    ..    -    .-    -    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001111 01000111 01001001 01010100 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#71 &#73 &#84 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0047 0049 0054 0041 0054 0049 004E 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37494143543554434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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