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CREASING

Definition: CREASING

CREASING

Noun

1. A layer of tiles forming a corona for a wall.

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Crease

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CREASING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references)


Crosswords: CREASING

English words defined with "CREASING": Mackerel plow. (references)
Specialty definitions using "CREASING": bias-binding folderCASING-IN-LINE SETTER, CLOTH TESTER, QUALITYfinishing machine operator, folder operator, folder, machine, FOLDING-MACHINE OPERATORlaboratory assistant, LIP CUTTER AND SCORERmachine adjusterTAPE-FOLDING-MACHINE OPERATOR, TUBE SPLICER. (references)

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Modern Usage: CREASING

DomainUsage

Lyrics

It's creasing your butt (MIXED EMOTIONS; performing artist: Rolling Stones)

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

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Sounds Captioned with "CREASING".

PlayCaption
Crumple; crumpling; ball; throw away; crease; crimp; crimple; crinkle; crush; fall; fold; give way; pucker; rimple; ruck; rumple; scrunch; shrivel; wad; wadding; scrunching; rumpling; creasing; crimpling.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CREASING

"CREASING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 87.88% of the time. "CREASING" is used about 33 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)87.88%2964,444
Noun (singular)6.06%2245,945
Adjective (general or positive)6.06%2245,945
                    Total100.00%33N/A

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

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Expression: CREASING

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "CREASING": non-creasing.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CREASING

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

creasing

6

creasing machine

4

creasing cutting rule

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CREASING

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

Chinese 

  

弄皱 (Creased, Crumple, Crumpled, Crumpling). (various references)

   

Czech

  

nemaèkavý (crease-resistant, non-creasing). (various references)

   

French

  

froissement (Crinkle, crumpling). (various references)

   

German

  

zerknitternd (crumpling, rumpling). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tetőgerinc (ridge), ráncolódás (pucker, puckering), ráncolás (Gore, puckering), pliszírozás (pleating), gyűrés, gyűrődés (crease, crinkling, fold, kink, pucker, puckering), berakás (inlay, inset, marquetery, marquetry, marquetry inlay, mounting, onload, pleat, pleating, stowage), összegyűrés (crumpling), összegyűrődés (crumpling). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

kerutan (contraction, wrinkling). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

easingcray

   

Ukrainian

  

зморщування (puckering, wrinkling). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: CREASING

Derivations

Words ending with "CREASING": decreasing, increasing, nondecreasing, nonincreasing, precreasing. (additional references)

Words containing "CREASING": decreasingly, increasingly. (additional references)


Misspellings

"CREASING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cheasing, Chekasin, Cheyassin, crassing, creasings, croesian. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: CREASING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-n-r-s"

-1 letter: anergic, arcsine, arsenic, carnies, ceasing, cringes, earings, erasing, gainers, incages, racings, reagins, regains, reginas, sacring, scaring, searing, seringa.

-2 letters: angers, arcing, arisen, arsine, cagers, cagier, cairns, caners, caries, caring, carnie, casein, casern, casing, cerias, cering, cigars, cranes, cringe, earing, easing, ericas, gainer, graces, grains, incage, incase, nacres, racing, rances, ranges, rasing, reagin.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-n-r-s"
 

+1 letter: caressing, clearings, escarping, recasting, rescaling, respacing, screaking, screaming, searching.

 

+2 letters: carpetings, cashiering, centigrams, clearwings, coarsening, cragginess, crevassing, decreasing, grievances, gynarchies, ignorances, increasing, panegyrics, precasting, reaccusing, reclasping, recoinages, regnancies, restacking, saprogenic, scampering, scarpering, scattering, surceasing, transgenic, vagrancies.

 

+3 letters: ancestoring, astringency, berascaling, campaigners, carcinogens, caregivings, caressingly, caretakings, cartelising, charmingest, cinemagoers, desecrating, flagrancies, forecasting, fragrancies, gracileness, grandnieces, graphicness, grecianizes, lowercasing, miscreating, overcasting, oversaucing, precreasing, pregnancies, reascending, researching, resurfacing, scatterings, screamingly, searchingly, sergeancies, transecting, uppercasing.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Sounds
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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