Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: DISCARDING |
DISCARDINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Discard |
Date "DISCARDING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1670. (references) |
Crosswords: DISCARDING |
| Specialty definitions using "DISCARDING": Cat Proverbs, COFFEE-ROASTER HELPER ♦ drop on the floor ♦ PACKER-FUSER ♦ Refuse Disposal ♦ sector mapping, set associative cache, simplification of a document ♦ trimmed mean ♦ Waste Disposal, Fluid ♦ yeast-cake cutter, YEAST-CUTTING-AND-WRAPPING-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books |
|
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | STS, too, has a substantial false positive rate, leading to discarding blood and rejecting the donor with resultant distress. (references) | |
Setting criteria for discarding units of donated blood because of ALT elevations has been problematic because modest elevations of serum ALT are common in healthy blood donors. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DISCARDING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 93.98% of the time. "DISCARDING" is used about 83 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) | 93.98% | 78 | 37,656 |
| Noun (singular) | 6.02% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 83 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "DISCARDING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 摈除 (Discard, Discarded). (various references) | ||||||||||
Danish | nedtagning (breakdown, discard, dismantling, recovery, removal, taking up, teardown, withdrawal). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | dépose (discard), défausse (discard). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | verwerfung (condemnation, dismissal, fault, quashing, rejection, warp, warping), Ablegereife, Ablegen (cast aside, cast off, discard, file, give up, lay aside, lay away, lay down, outgrow, pass, pull away, put aside, put down, put off, remove, renounce, shed, shove off, shuffle off, store, swear, throw off, to discard, ungird, unlearn). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | rigetto in mare degli scarti. (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 廃棄 (abandon, annullment, disposal, repeal, scrap). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | おはらいば" (firing), はいき (abandon, annullment, disposal, exhaust, repeal, scrap, ventilation). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 버림. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | iscardingday отвергать (cast aside, disallow, discard, jettison, negate, negative, override, overrule, rebut, refuse, refuse to admit, reject, rejecting, repel, repudiate, repulse, spurn, turn down, vote down). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"DISCARDING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Desjardins, giscardian. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DISCARDING" (pronounced di'skÄ"rding) |
| 5 | -Ä" r d i ng | bombarding, disregarding, guarding, regarding, retarding. |
| 4 | -r d i ng | according, affording, awarding, boarding, cording, hoarding, recording, rewarding, safeguarding, skateboarding, warding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | abiding, abounding, acceding, adding, aiding, alluding, amending, applauding, apprehending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, backsliding, balding, banding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guiding, handholding, handing, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, holding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebounding, rebuilding, receding, recommending, Redding, Reding, refunding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retreading, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skidding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, trading, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unloading, unwinding, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, wedding, weeding, welding, wending, wielding, Wilding, winding, withholding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding, yielding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-g-i-i-n-r-s" | |
-2 letters: cardings. | |
-3 letters: airings, arising, candids, carding, darings, diacids, discard, discing, disdain, gradins, racings, radding, raiding, raising, ridding, ridings, sacring, scaring, siganid. | |
-4 letters: adding, aiding, airing, anisic, arcing, caddis, cairds, cairns, candid, canids, caring, casing, casini, cigars, darics, daring, diacid, dicing, dinars, drains, gaddis, gadids, gradin, grains, grands, grinds, icings, indris, nadirs, nicads, racing. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-d-g-i-i-n-r-s" | |
+2 letters: disaccording. | |
| 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 49 53 43 41 52 44 49 4E 47 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... -.-. .- .-. -.. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01001001 01010011 01000011 01000001 01010010 01000100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D I S C A R D I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0049 0053 0043 0041 0052 0044 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38435337355238434841 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , kineser, Chinois, Chinesisch, cinese, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, китайский, китаец |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | 丹麦语, danois, dänisch, danese, 덴마크, датский |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français, französisch, francese, フレコン化 , 仏文 , フランス" , 仏 , ふつぶ", ふつ, フレンチ , フランセ , "랑스, французский |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , tysker, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, немецкий |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italiener, italien, italienisch, italiano, 이탈리아, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , Japonais, japaner, japanisch, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, японский, японец |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , Japonais, japaner, japanisch, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, японский, японец |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, 한국, кореец, корейский |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, russer, Russe, russisch, russo, ロシア語 , ロシア", 러시아, русский |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais, englisch, inglese, 영국, английский |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
