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Definition: DETACHING |
DETACHINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Detach |
Date "DETACHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references) |
Crosswords: DETACHING |
| English words defined with "DETACHING": Disengaging, Draff. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DETACHING": Cardiomyoplasty ♦ de-icing probe, detaching bells, draft list ♦ FURNACE OPERATOR ♦ hand sampling, HATCH TENDER ♦ jad ♦ knuckle man ♦ magmatic stoping ♦ safety hook, slung cartridges. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "DETACHING": Detach. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Figure 8. Skead sounder invented by Francis Skead during telegraph survey operations between Malta and Crete off HMS TARTARUS in 1857. This device was designed to mitigate problems with the Brooke and Bonnici sounders. The first would sink in soft sediment without detaching the weight while the second rarely returned samples. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | "The long detaching rings again writhed in mid-air, and softly descended as he thundered past" / E.C. Dalton ; R. Caton Woodville. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Kingman (vicinity), Arizona. A workman detaching a train of mine cars that have been hauling tungsten ore from the Boriana mine to a recovery plant. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He chronicled with patience what he saw, detaching himself from it and testing its mortifying flavour in secret |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Cardiomyoplasty--A surgical procedure that involves detaching one end of a back muscle and attaching it to the heart. (references) | |
The procedure, called cardiomyoplasty, involves detaching one end of a muscle in the back, wrapping it around the heart, and then suturing the muscle to the heart. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DETACHING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DETACHING" is used about 28 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) | 100% | 28 | 65,706 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "DETACHING": detaching apparatus ♦ detaching bells ♦ detaching roll. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "DETACHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 分开 (Apart, Detach, Disaggregate, Disconnected, Disconnecting, partition, separate, unsolder). (various references) | |
Danish | slipapparat (detaching apparatus, disengaging gear, releasing gear), hudafrivning (skin detaching). (various references) | |
Dutch | slipinrichting (detaching apparatus, disengaging gear, releasing gear), losscheuren van de huid (skin detaching), avulsie van de huid (skin detaching), afscheuren van de huid (skin detaching). (various references) | |
French | détachant. (various references) | |
German | loslösend (uncoupling, unpinned), ablösend (unsoldering). (various references) | |
Greek | μηχανισμός απελευθέρωσης (detaching apparatus, disengaging gear, releasing gear), μηχανισμός αποσύνδεσης (detaching apparatus, disengaging gear, releasing gear). (various references) | |
Italian | distacco delle ostriche (spat detaching), disinnesto (release), détroquage (spat detaching), scollamento (abrasion, decortication, delamination, detachment of the spat, spat detaching, spat harvesting), scoiamento della cute (skin detaching), sblocco (detaching apparatus, disengaging gear, freeing, releasing gear), macchina per staccare le ostriche dal collettore (spat detacher, spat-detaching machine), escoriazione della cute (skin detaching). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 取り外し (dismantling, removal). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | とりはずし (dismantling, removal). (various references) | |
Korean | 파견 (Delegating, Despatch, Dispatch, Dispatching). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | etachingday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | aparelho de escape (detaching apparatus, disengaging gear, releasing gear), aparelho de disparar (detaching apparatus, disengaging gear, releasing gear). (various references) | |
Romanian | detaşare (detachment, disconnection). (various references) | |
Spanish | gancho de seguridad (clevis, detaching hook, safety detaching hook), gancho de escape (detaching apparatus, disengaging gear, releasing gear), gancho de desmontaje de seguridad (detaching hook, safety detaching hook), escoriación dérmica (skin detaching). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"DETACHING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: detchant, Detchon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-g-h-i-n-t" | |
-1 letter: cheating, teaching. | |
-2 letters: chained, changed, chanted, echidna, etching, gahnite, gnathic, heading, heating, incaged. | |
-3 letters: acetin, aching, acting, cadent, canted, canthi, ceding, centai, chaine, change, chined, dating, decant, detach, detain, eating, eching, enatic, ethnic, gained, gaited, hading, haeing, hanged, hanted, hating, hinged, hinted, incage, inched, ingate, itched, niched, nidget, nighed, tanged, tinged. | |
-4 letters: ached, acing. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-g-h-i-n-t" | |
+2 letters: candlelight, despatching. | |
+3 letters: candlelights, interchanged. | |
+4 letters: candlelighted, candlelighter, disenchanting, hydromagnetic. | |
+5 letters: candlelighters, countershading, dechlorinating. | |
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