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Definitions: DEBATING |
DEBATINGNoun1. The act of discussing or arguing; discussion. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Debate |
Date "DEBATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonym: DEBATINGSynonym: Debates. (additional references) |
Crosswords: DEBATING |
| English words defined with "DEBATING": Capitol Hill, Christian church, Christianity, church ♦ Debating society ♦ the Hill. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DEBATING": Lower House ♦ Marking Up a Bill ♦ penis war ♦ Zenith. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Big Tobacco tried to smear Wigand, you bought it. The Wall Street Journal, here, not exactly a bastion of anti-capitalist sentiment, refutes Big Tobacco's smear campaign as the lowest form of character assassination! And now, even now, when every word of what Wigand has said on our show is printed, the entire deposition of his testimony in a court of law in the State of Mississippi, the cat totally out of the bag, you're still standing here debating! Don, what the hell else do you need? (The Insider; writing credit: Eric Roth) Hell yeah! I'm for debating anything. (1776; writing credit: Sherman Edwards; Peter Stone) | |
Movie/TV Titles | World Series Debating (1993) | |
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Thomas Carlyle | A man lives by believing something, not by debating and arguing about many things. |
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John Locke | 1690 | Secondly, When the prince hinders the legislative from assembling in its due time, or from acting freely, pursuant to those ends for which it was constituted, the legislative is altered: for it is not a certain number of men, no, nor their meeting, unless they have also freedom of debating, and leisure of perfecting, what is for the good of the society, wherein the legislative consists: when these are taken away or altered, so as to deprive the society of the due exercise of their power, the legislative is truly altered; for it is not names that constitute governments, but the use and exercise of those powers that were intended to accompany them; so that he, who takes away the freedom, or hinders the acting of the legislative in its due seasons, in effect takes away the legislative, and puts an end to the government. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The Korean government is still debating ceiling prices for the remaining products. (references) | |
As part of the pending health care reform policy, the Korean government and interest groups have been debating for the past two years about liberalizing the distribution of certain over-the-counter drugs, including vitamins, to general retail outlets such as supermarkets and department stores. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Chad | His followers are allowed to pray in their mosques, but they are forbidden from debating religious beliefs in any way that might be considered proselytizing; however, the Tidjani followers throughout the country are allowed to proselytize. (references) |
Economic History | Poland | In response to growing unemployment, politicians, unions and employers have been debating means to reduce this burden. (references) |
Bolivia | The traditionally strong executive, however, tends to overshadow the Congress, whose role is generally limited to debating and approving legislation initiated by the executive. (references) | |
Political Economy | VENEZUELA | However, the National Assembly is debating a new Industrial Property Law, which should address many of the outstanding TRIPS issues. (references) |
Political Rights | Nigeria | The law allows new political parties to participate in local elections in 2003; however, it prohibits their participation in state and national elections until 2007. Both houses of the National Assembly were debating the possible repeal of the prohibition at year's end. (references) |
Yemen | Although the Constitution permits Parliament to initiate legislation, to date it has not done so. Parliament generally is relegated to debating policies that the Government already has submitted, although it increasingly and successfully revises or blocks draft legislation submitted by the Government. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Bosnia and Herzegovina | The Federation Government and the company were debating the report's recommendations at year's end, but had not reached an agreement on a future course of action. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though from this view of the matter there was once a considerably dissent among the learned, some holding that the posture of the body was immaterial. These were called Horizontalists, their opponents, Verticalists. The Horizontalist heresy was finally extinguished by Xanobus, the philosopher-king of Abara, a zealous Verticalist. Entering an assembly of philosophers who were debating the matter, he cast a severed human head at the feet of his opponents and asked them to determine its zenith, explaining that its body was hanging by the heels outside. Observing that it was the head of their leader, the Horizontalists hastened to profess themselves converted to whatever opinion the Crown might be pleased to hold, and Horizontalism took its place among fides defuncti. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DEBATING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 85.22% of the time. "DEBATING" is used about 291 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) | 85.22% | 248 | 18,908 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 7.9% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.84% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.03% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 291 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "DEBATING": Debating club ♦ debating society. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "DEBATING": debating-chamber, debating-table. | |
Ending with "DEBATING": re-debating. | |
| 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 |
debating | 29 |
debating rule | 9 |
debating skill | 6 |
debating topic | 6 |
debating tip | 4 |
debating technique | 2 |
debating issue | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DEBATING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | кръжок за дискусии (debating society). (various references) | |
Chinese | 辩论 (Debate, Debated, teach-in). (various references) | |
Dutch | Katholiek Vrouwen Dispuut, Lage Mierde (Catholic Women's Debating Society). (various references) | |
French | débattant. (various references) | |
German | erörternd (arguing), debattierend. (various references) | |
Hebrew | "תוכחות (arguing, discussing, disputing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nyilvános vitakör (debating society). (various references) | |
Korean | (Debate, Discussing). (various references) | |
Manx | sheshaght resoonee (debating society). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ebatingday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sociedade de debate (debating society). (various references) | |
Romanian | pertractare (argument). (various references) | |
Russian | дискуссионный клуб (debating society, debating-society). (various references) | |
Scottish | deasbaireachd (reasoning, wrangling). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | debatno udruženje (debating society). (various references) | |
Spanish | club de disputa (debating society). (various references) | |
Swedish | debatterande. (various references) | |
Turkish | tartışmalar düzenleyen dernek (debating society). (various references) | |
Ukranian | дискусійний клуб (debating society). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hội những người tập tranh luận chuyên đề (debating-society). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "DEBATING": outdebating. (additional references) | |
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"DEBATING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Debati, debation, debeaking, defating, defatting, derating, devasting, Dobbertin, dubbining. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DEBATING" (pronounced dubā"ting) |
| 6 | -u b ā" t i ng | abating. |
| 5 | -b ā" t i ng | baiting. |
| 4 | -ā" t i ng | annotating, awaiting, berating, crating, creating, dating, deflating, elating, equating, grating, hating, inflating, innovating, mating, misstating, negating, plating, rating, reinstating, relating, restating, sedating, skating, stating, translating, updating, waiting, weighting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, accosting, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, adjusting, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, arresting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, assisting, associating, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, babysitting, backbiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, casting, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, composting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consisting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crediting, cresting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, daunting, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflecting, defrosting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, delisting, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disgusting, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, dusting, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, enunciating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, everlasting, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, existing, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflicting, infuriating, ingesting, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, investing, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, laminating, lasting, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, listing, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, lusting, malting, mandating, manifesting, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, neglecting, negotiating, nesting, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, posting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, reacting, reactivating, readjusting, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, recasting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, rusting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, toasting, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, wanting, wasting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-g-i-n-t" | |
-1 letter: beading, beating, dingbat. | |
-2 letters: baited, bandit, banged, bating, binate, binged, dating, detain, eating, gained, gaited, ingate, nidget, tanged, tinged. | |
-3 letters: abide, agent, anted, badge, baned, bated, began, begat, begin, being, bidet, binge, debit, deign, dinge, entia, gated, giant, gibed, tabid, teind, tenia, tinea, tined, tinge. | |
-4 letters: abed, abet, adit, aged, agin, aide, ante, anti, bade, bait, band, bane, bang, bani, bate, bead, bean, beat, bend, bent, beta, bide, bind, bine, bint, bite, dang, date, dean, debt, deni, dent, diet, dine, ding, dint, dita, dite, edit, egad, etna, gadi, gaed, gaen, gain, gait, gane, gate, gent, geta, gibe, gied, gien, gnat, idea, nabe, neat, nide, nite, tain, tang, tend, tide, tied, tine, ting. | |
-5 letters: age, aid, ain, ait, and, ane, ani, ant, ate, bad, bag, ban, bat, bed, beg, ben, bet, bid, big, bin, bit, dab, dag, deb, den, dib, die, dig, din, dit, eat, end, eng, eta, gab, gad, gae, gan, gat, ged, gen, get, gib, gid, gie, gin, git, nab, nae, nag, neb, net, nib, nit, tab, tad, tae, tag, tan, tea, ted, teg, ten, tie, tin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-g-i-n-t" | |
+2 letters: abridgment, bartending, besteading, redbaiting. | |
+3 letters: abridgement, abridgments, drumbeating, outdebating. | |
+4 letters: abridgements, debilitating, deliberating, diabetogenic, drumbeatings, outbargained, speedboating. | |
+5 letters: decarbonating, decerebrating, defibrinating, destabilizing, detribalizing, indefatigable, indefatigably, skateboarding, speedboatings. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 45 42 41 54 49 4E 47 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . -... .- - .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000101 01000010 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E B A T I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 0042 0041 0054 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3839363554434841 |
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