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Definition: DETERRING |
DETERRINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Deter |
Date "DETERRING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references) |
Crosswords: DETERRING |
| English words defined with "DETERRING": defensive, deterrence, discouraging, dissuasive. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DETERRING": deer mirror ♦ game reflector ♦ roadside mirror. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "DETERRING": Deter. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Costa Rica | Costa Rica has yet to fully implement its 2000 legislation governing enforcement measures, but there are already doubts that the law will be effective for prosecuting violators and deterring future infractions. (references) |
Russia | Successive Russian governments have designated the fight against corruption as a priority task of government due to its economic costs (particularly the deterring of foreign and domestic investment and encouragement of capital flight). (references) | |
Yemen | The tourism industry, which imploded in 1999 due mainly to a fatal kidnapping incident in December 1998, began to recover in the summer of 2000. The government began to enforce stiff new anti-kidnapping laws, which along with the Saudi-Yemeni border treaty signed in June 2000, had a positive impact in deterring that activity. (references) | |
Human Rights | Peru | Under the Fujimori administration, aggravated terrorism charges were applied to crimes committed by armed gangs of delinquents as a means of deterring crime. (references) |
Political Economy | Indonesia | The Government was ineffective in deterring social, interethnic, and interreligious violence that accounted for the majority of deaths by violence during the year. (references) |
JAPAN | New entrants continue to face higher costs and longer waiting periods for connecting to the dominant carriers' local network than in other advanced countries, deterring competition. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | But despite this progress, we must maintain a military force that is capable of deterring any threat to this Nation's security, whatever the mode of aggression. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | As I leave office I can report that our national defense is effectively deterring conflict today. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "DETERRING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.14% of the time. "DETERRING" is used about 35 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) | 97.14% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.86% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 35 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "DETERRING": deterring-effect. | |
Ending with "DETERRING": entry-deterring. | |
| 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 |
deterring | 7 |
cat deterring | 3 |
deterring squirrel | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DETERRING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 阻止 (Damped, Damping, Debar, Debarred, Debarring, Deter, Deterred, forestall, Forestalled, forestalling, Preclude, Precluded, Precluding). (various references) | |
German | abschreckend (deterrent, deterrently). (various references) | |
Korean | 제지 (Detention, Deterrent, Restraining). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eterringday.(various references) | |
Spanish | aterrador (appaling, appalling, frightening, shocking). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"DETERRING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dejerine, detering, Deterink, determing, deterreny, Detterding, deturing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DETERRING" (pronounced duter"ing) |
| 4 | -t er" i ng | stirring. |
| 3 | -er" i ng | blurring, concurring, conferring, deferring, demurring, incurring, inferring, nonrecurring, occurring, preferring, purring, recurring, referring, slurring, spurring, transferring, whirring. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-i-n-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: deringer, interred, trendier. | |
-2 letters: dernier, dreeing, energid, grinder, integer, nerdier, reeding, regrind, reigned, reinter, rentier, retired, retried, terrine, tireder, treeing. | |
-3 letters: denier, dieter, dinger, edgier, endite, engird, engirt, entire, erring, gender, gerent, girder, girned, girted, nereid, nidget, reding, reedit, regent, regret, reined, render, rented, renter, retied, retine, retire, rident, ringed, ringer, teeing, tender. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-i-n-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: intergrade, retreading. | |
+2 letters: intergraded, intergrades, redirecting, rethreading, retroceding. | |
+3 letters: enregistered, heartrending, intergrafted, interrogated, kindergarten, peregrinated, redecorating, redintegrate, reintegrated, unregistered. | |
+4 letters: decerebrating, deteriorating, fingerprinted, interbreeding, kindergartens, kindergartner, overdirecting, reaccrediting, recentrifuged, redetermining, redintegrated, redintegrates, reinvigorated, underreacting, understeering. | |
+5 letters: butterfingered, disarrangement, headquartering, heartrendingly, kindergartener, kindergartners, overdecorating, predetermining, preponderating, redintegrating, redintegration, redintegrative, underreporting, unrefrigerated. | |
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