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Definition: CORNERING |
CORNERINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Corner |
Date "CORNERING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Crosswords: CORNERING |
| Specialty definitions using "CORNERING": JEWEL-HOLE CORNERER. (references) |
| "CORNERING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 96.00% of the time. "CORNERING" is used about 25 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% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Noun (singular) | 4% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
cornering motorcycle | 10 |
control cornering dynamics vehicle | 6 |
cornering | 4 |
cornering light | 2 |
cornering line | 2 |
cornering motorcycle technique | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CORNERING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 垄断 (Cornered, monopolise, monopolize, Monopolized, Monopolizing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | afskæring af rodudløb (facing, laying in, notching, rounding up, setting up, side cutting, side notching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verwijderen van wortelaanlopen (facing, laying in, notching, rounding up, setting up, side cutting, side notching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | loveaminen (facing, laying in, notching, rounding up, setting up, side cutting, side notching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | égobelage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | in die Enge treibend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | προπαρασκευαστική τομή (side cutting, side notching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | regolarizzazione della base (facing, laying in, notching, rounding up, setting up, side cutting, side notching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 買い め (buying up of goods), 買 め (buying up of goods), コード刺繍 (coffee, cord embroidery, corner, corner cabinet, corner cupboard, corner kick, corner top, corner work). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かいしめ (buying up of goods), コーナリング . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 모서리를 냄. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orneringcay corte da sapata (facing, laying in, notching, rounding up, setting up, side cutting, side notching). (various references) anillado de apeo (facing, laying in, notching, rounding up, setting up, side cutting, side notching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"CORNERING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: congering, joinering. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CORNERING" (pronounced kô"rnering) |
| 5 | -r n er i ng | garnering. |
| 4 | -n er i ng | honoring, minoring, partnering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | administering, altering, anchoring, angering, answering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, belaboring, beleaguering, bettering, bewildering, bickering, blistering, blundering, blustering, bolstering, bordering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clamoring, clobbering, clustering, cluttering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, countering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doctoring, doddering, embroidering, empowering, encountering, endangering, endeavoring, entering, factoring, faltering, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, festering, figuring, filibustering, filtering, fingering, flattering, flavoring, flickering, floundering, flowering, fluttering, fostering, foundering, fracturing, frittering, furthering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glittering, glowering, grandfathering, guttering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hectoring, hindering, hollering, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, lettering, levering, lingering, littering, loitering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, mastering, maundering, meandering, measuring, mentoring, metering, mirroring, mitering, mongering, monitoring, mothering, motoring, murdering, murmuring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neighboring, neutering, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pampering, pandering, papering, peppering, perjuring, pestering, petering, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plastering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, puttering, quivering, recapturing, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, reentering, registering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scattering, scouring, sculpturing, sequestering, severing, shattering, sheltering, shimmering, shivering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, shuttering, simmering, slaughtering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smattering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, squandering, staggering, structuring, stuttering, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, sweltering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, teetering, tempering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, tottering, towering, transpiring, triggering, tutoring, uncovering, unflattering, unwavering, ushering, uttering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, warmongering, watering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, wondering, Wuthering, zippering. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-g-i-n-n-o-r-r" | |
-1 letter: encoring. | |
-2 letters: coreign, cornier, corning, cringer, grinner, ignorer, negroni. | |
-3 letters: cering, coigne, coiner, conger, conine, coning, conner, coring, corner, corrie, cringe, eringo, erring, ginner, gorier, grocer, ignore, ironer, orcein, orrice, recoin, region, ringer. | |
-4 letters: coign, conge, conin, corer, corgi, crier, crone, crore, genic, genro, giron, goner, groin, incog, inner, irone, nicer, nonce, orcin, orgic. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-g-i-n-n-o-r-r" | |
+1 letter: conferring, recrowning. | |
+2 letters: coinferring, cointerring, reenforcing, reinforcing. | |
+3 letters: copartnering, nonrecurring, precensoring, reconfirming, reconquering, recontouring, reconverting, underscoring. | |
+4 letters: controverting, corresponding, counterfiring, intercropping, intercrossing, nitroglycerin, noradrenergic, preconcerting, reconfiguring, reconnoitring, reconsidering, reintroducing, rencountering. | |
+5 letters: cotransferring, counterarguing, counterraiding, intercomparing, nitroglycerine, nitroglycerins, organochlorine, overconcerning, reconnoitering, reconsecrating, reconstructing, reencountering, serotoninergic. | |
| 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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