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Definition: CONSTRUING |
CONSTRUINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Construe |
Date "CONSTRUING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
Crosswords: CONSTRUING |
| English words defined with "CONSTRUING": construal, Cypres. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | In the first cases in this Court construing the Fourteenth Amendment, decided shortly after its adoption, the Court interpreted it as proscribing all state-imposed discriminations against the Negro race. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "CONSTRUING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.01% of the time. "CONSTRUING" is used about 67 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) | 97.01% | 65 | 41,645 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.99% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 67 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "CONSTRUING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 串讲 (Construe, Construed). (various references) | ||||
German | konstruierend (constructing). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | szó szerinti fordítás (construe, word for word translation), pontos fordítás (construe, near translation), mondat elemzése (construe). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | onstruingcay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "CONSTRUING": misconstruing. (additional references) | |
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"CONSTRUING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: constringo, Construzioni. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-n-n-o-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: contusing, tonsuring, trouncing. | |
-2 letters: counting, coursing, courting, crusting, grunions, nocturns, outgrins, outrings, rousting, ructions, scorning, scouring, scouting, snorting, snouting, sourcing, tourings, turnings, unctions, unicorns, unstring. | |
-3 letters: cistron, citrons, citrous, congius, consign, corning, cortins, costing, cursing, gnostic, grunion, incrust, introns, inturns, nitrous, nocturn, nonsuit, nuncios, nursing, ousting, outgrin, outings, outring, outsing, rousing, routing, ruction. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-n-n-o-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: countersign, outscorning. | |
+2 letters: constructing, countersigns, countersuing. | |
+3 letters: cotransducing, counterposing, countersigned, incongruities, misconstruing, rediscounting, undercoatings. | |
+4 letters: configurations, counterpoising, countershading, countersigning, countersinking, counterstating, deconstructing, reconstituting, reconstructing, subcontracting, underclothings. | |
+5 letters: centrifugations, congratulations, countershadings, counterstaining, counterstepping, overdiscounting, superconducting. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Historic | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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