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Definition: COLLAPSING |
COLLAPSINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Collapse |
Date "COLLAPSING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Statistics | The operation of combining categories or ranges of values of a variable so as to produce a small number of categories. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: COLLAPSING |
| English words defined with "COLLAPSING": collapsable, collapsible ♦ noncollapsable, noncollapsible ♦ topple, tumble. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "COLLAPSING": competent rock ♦ DRAWING-KILN OPERATOR, drawing-machine operator ♦ ETCHER, HAND ♦ fail softly ♦ GLASS BENDER, glass-tube bender, graceful degradation ♦ jackknifing ♦ kiln operator ♦ Rankine's formula ♦ slope stability ♦ von Neumann ordinal. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Oh yeah! There are so many ways to die in New York City! Race riots, drive by shootings, subway crashes, construction cranes collapsing on the sidewalks, manhole covers blowing up and asbestos shooting into the sky. (Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer; writing credit: Denis Leary) The world is collapsing outside. (Eversmile, New Jersey; writing credit: Jorge Goldenberg; Roberto Scheuer) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Georg C. Lichtenberg | A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The air pressure is adjusted so that it is just enough to prevent the throat from collapsing during sleep. (references) | |
This increase is the result of the weakened airways collapsing before all the normally expired air can leave the lungs. (references) | ||
Business | It was a period when the old ties between the Soviet republics started collapsing. (references) | |
Economic History | Haiti | When the military refused to uphold its end of the agreements, the de facto authorities refused to allow a return to constitutional government, even though the economy was collapsing and the country's infrastructure deteriorated from neglect. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "COLLAPSING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 85.55% of the time. "COLLAPSING" is used about 263 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) | 85.55% | 225 | 20,080 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 13.31% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.76% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.38% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 263 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "COLLAPSING": axially collapsing steering column ♦ collapsing data. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
collapsing trachea | 7 |
collapsing | 7 |
bridge collapsing | 6 |
center collapsing trade world | 5 |
building collapsing | 2 |
collapsing dog trachea | 2 |
lung collapsing | 2 |
collapsing dog in trachea | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "COLLAPSING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 崩溃 (Collapse, Collapsed, crash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sammentrykning (bottoming, buckle, compression), gruppering (bracketing, collapsing data, grouping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | instorting (failure, herniation, prolapsus, rock failure), groepering (good great group, group). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | romahdus (breakdown, collapse, crash, failure), luhistaminen (bracketing, collapsing data, grouping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ecrasement, écrasement (collapse, compression), éboulement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zusammenstürzend, zusammenbrechend, einstürzend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατάρευση, συντριβή (contrition, crush, shatter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | collasso (breakdown, collapse, shock), cedimento (backdown, subsidence, yielding), raggruppamento (groupage), franamento (landslide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 荷崩れ (collapsing load). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | にくずれ (collapsing load, falling apart while cooking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 궤멸. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ollapsingcay desabamento (landslip), aluimento. (various references) рушиться свертывание. (various references) colapso (collapse, jam), derrumbe (collapse), agrupamiento (grouping). (various references) intryckning (impression). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"COLLAPSING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: colluping. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "COLLAPSING" (pronounced kula"psing) |
| 7 | -u l a" p s i ng | relapsing. |
| 6 | -l a" p s i ng | lapsing. |
| 4 | -p s i ng | eclipsing, traipsing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | accessing, acquiescing, addressing, advancing, affixing, amassing, annexing, announcing, assessing, balancing, basing, blessing, bouncing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, commencing, compressing, condensing, conferencing, confessing, conversing, convincing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, dancing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, denouncing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispensing, dispersing, displacing, distancing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enhancing, enticing, erasing, expensing, experiencing, expressing, facing, 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, leasing, lensing, licensing, loosing, massing, menacing, mensing, messing, mincing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outdistancing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pronouncing, pulsing, racing, reassessing, rebalancing, recessing, redressing, reducing, referencing, refinancing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, renouncing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, seducing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, servicing, showcasing, silencing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, teleconferencing, tossing, tracing, 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: scalloping. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-l-l-n-o-p-s" | |
-2 letters: callings, clasping, scallion, scalping, solacing, spalling. | |
-3 letters: alnicos, calling, caplins, closing, coaling, collins, copings, gallons, gallops, inclasp, lacings, lapsing, logical, oilcans, palings, palling, placing, polling, sapling, scaling, scallop, scaping, scoping, sloping, soaping, spacing. | |
-4 letters: agonic, algins, aligns, alnico, aloins, caplin, capons, casing, casino, clangs, clinal, clings, clonal, coigns, colins, congas, copals, coping, cosign. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-l-l-n-o-p-s" | |
+1 letter: escalloping. | |
+5 letters: psychogenically. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
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