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Definition: DISSUADING |
DISSUADINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Dissuade |
Date "DISSUADING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dissuasion | Adjective: dissuading; Verb: dissuasive; dehortatory, expostulatory; monitive, monitory. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DISSUADING |
| Specialty definitions using "DISSUADING": Mace. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "DISSUADING": Dissuade. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Cuba | Because of these complaints by the Pentecostals, the CCC formally has requested overseas member church organizations to assist them in dissuading foreign missionaries from establishing Pentecostal churches. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DISSUADING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DISSUADING" is used about 9 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% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "DISSUADING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 谏阻 (Dissuade, Dissuaded). (various references) | ||||
German | abratend (dissuading from), abbringend (wringing). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | issuadingday | ||||
Misspellings | |
"DISSUADING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dissaving. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-g-i-i-n-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: disdains, disusing, siganids. | |
-3 letters: audings, disdain, dissing, indusia, issuing, sidings, siganid, sudsing. | |
-4 letters: adding, aiding, assign, auding, dingus, duding, gaddis, gadids, siding, unsaid. | |
-5 letters: dangs, dings, duads, dungs, gaddi, gadid, gadis, gains, gauds, gauss, guans, guids, nidus, nisus, sadis, saids, sains, sands, sasin, signs, sings, sinus, snags, snugs, sudds, suing, unais, undid, using. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 49 53 53 55 41 44 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... ... ..- .- -.. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01001001 01010011 01010011 01010101 01000001 01000100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D I S S U A D I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0049 0053 0053 0055 0041 0044 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)38435353553538434841 |
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