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COMPORTING

Definition: COMPORTING

COMPORTING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Comport

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "COMPORTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)


Use in Literature: COMPORTING

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Ruthie and Winfield stood inside the circle, comporting themselves with proper frigidity and dignity.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: COMPORTING

"COMPORTING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "COMPORTING" 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: COMPORTING

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

German

  

sich betragend. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

omportingcay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: COMPORTING

Misspellings

"COMPORTING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Comorin. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: COMPORTING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-g-i-m-n-o-o-p-r-t"

-1 letter: promoting.

-2 letters: compting, coopting, motoring, protonic, tromping, trooping.

-3 letters: comping, comport, cooping, monitor, mooring, mooting, moronic, motoric, omicron, porcino, portico, porting, portion, romping, rooming, rooting, tompion.

-4 letters: citron, cogito, coming, cooing, coping, coring, cortin, coting, croton, gnomic, import, micron, mooing, moping, morion, motion, octopi, octroi, opting, option, pogrom, poring, potion, pronto, proton, roping, toping.

 Words containing the letters "c-g-i-m-n-o-o-p-r-t"
 

+2 letters: compurgation.

 

+3 letters: compurgations, morphogenetic.

 

+4 letters: contemporizing, gerontomorphic.

 

+5 letters: megacorporation, pharmacognostic.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Fiction
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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