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Definition: DUNNING |
DUNNINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Dun |
Date "DUNNING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1777. (references) |
Crosswords: DUNNING |
| Specialty definitions using "DUNNING": charge-account identification clerk ♦ Motorola 68HC11 ♦ THROW-OUT CLERK. (references) |
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 | Men pay their respects at the grave of Captain Cornelius M. Schoonmaker, USN, Commanding Officer of USS Vandalia, who lost his life when his ship was wrecked during the storm. He was buried near Apia, Upolu, Samoa. Photographed shortly after the disaster. Those present are (from left to right): Mr. Hart, news correspondent; Mr. J.P. Dunning, Associated Press correspondent; Chief Engineer Albert S. Greene, of USS Vandalia; Ensign John H. Gibbons, of USS Vandalia; Lieutenant James W. Carlin, of USS Vandalia; two unidentified men; and Captain Norman H. Farquhar, Commanding Officer of USS Trenton. Credit: NAVY. |  | Visiting the grave of Captain Cornelius M. Schoonmaker, USN, soon after the storm. Captain Schoonmaker, Commanding Officer of USS Vandalia, drowned during the hurricane and was buried near Apia, Upolu, Samoa. Those present are (from left to right): Mr. Hart, news correspondent; Mr. J.P. Dunning, Associated Press correspondent, who reported on the storm; Chief Engineer Albert S. Greene, of USS Vandalia; Ensign John H. Gibbons, of USS Vandalia; Lieutenant James W. Carlin, of USS Vandalia; two unidentified men; and Captain Norman H. Farquhar, Commanding Officer of USS Trenton. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Modern Humpty Dumpty / Dunning. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "DUNNING" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DUNNING" is used about 112 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 |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 112 | 30,646 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "DUNNING" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Dunning | Last name | 4,000 | 2,911 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Dunning, NE (village, FIPS 13960) |
Expression using "DUNNING": dunning letter. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "DUNNING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | aanmaningsbrief (dunning-letter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 催讨 (Dunned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | upomínka (demand, dunning letter, remembrance, reminder, souvenir, token). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | maanbrief (dunning-letter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | admonletero (dunning-letter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | karhumakirje (dunning letter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | lettre de relance (dunning-letter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mahnend (admonishingly, hortative, reminding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fizetési felszólítás (dun, dunning letter, prompt), erélyes fizetési felszólítás (dunning letter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | surat penagihan (dunning letter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 督促状 (demand note, dunning letter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | とくそくじょう (demand note, dunning letter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | unningday dunning-letra (dunning-letter). (various references) kravbrev (demand note, dunning letter, reminder). (various references) ihtarname (dunning letter, pink slip, protest, warning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Chrysozona pluvialis, Haematopota pluvialis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"DUNNING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: danang, Dennings, Donnini, Donnino, drunning, duannian, Dunant, d'union, dunnage, Dunnin, dunningite, Dunnings, Dunnon, Kunnin, lunning, Munning. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DUNNING" (pronounced du"ning) |
| 4 | -u" n i ng | cunning, gunning, rerunning, running, shunning, stunning, sunning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abandoning, abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, apportioning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, summoning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-i-n-n-n-u" | |
-3 letters: ding, dung, guid. | |
-4 letters: dig, din, dug, dui, dun, gid, gin, gnu, gun, inn, nun. | |
-5 letters: id, in, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-i-n-n-n-u" | |
+1 letter: unending. | |
+2 letters: unbending, unbinding, unhanding, unwinding. | |
+3 letters: denouncing, dungeoning, inbounding, inundating, unbundling, unendingly, unrounding. | |
+4 letters: confounding, ensanguined, indenturing, innuendoing, nonbuilding, nonreducing, unbandaging, unburdening, undemanding, underlining, undermining, undesigning, unendearing, windburning. | |
+5 letters: disannulling, enduringness, nonbuildings, nonproducing, underfunding, underpinning, underrunning, unpretending. | |
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