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Definition: ELONGATING |
ELONGATINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Elongate |
Date "ELONGATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1874. (references) |
| Synonyms by domain: elongate ilisha (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology), elongated aggregate (transportation), elongated aggregate index, elongated blister (industry, metallurgy), elongated bubble, elongated bushing (metallurgy), elongated cavity (chemical industry, industry), elongated cecum (medicine), elongated d frame (mechanical engineering, meteorology & standards), elongated ellipse (geography, physics), elongated hole (metallurgy, transportation), elongated porosity (metallurgy), Elongated punch (computing), elongated transition (building & civil engineering, transportation), elongated tuber (biology & biotechnology, information technology), oval bush (metallurgy), pointed end (biology & biotechnology, information technology), slender transition (building & civil engineering, transportation), thin elongated aggregate (building & civil engineering), ultimate elongate (chemistry, meteorology & standards). |
Crosswords: ELONGATING |
| Specialty definitions using "ELONGATING": BEAD MAKER ♦ glass-bead maker. (references) |
| "ELONGATING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "ELONGATING" is used about 5 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) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ELONGATING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 延长 (Extended, Prolong, Prolongation, Prolonged, Prolonging, Protract, Protracted, Protracting). (various references) | ||||
German | verlängernd (lengthening, prolongable, prolonging). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | elongatingay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Ilisha elongata. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-i-l-n-n-o-t" | |
-2 letters: agenting, angeling, ganglion, gantline, gelating, gelation, gentling, gleaning, gloating, latening, legating, legation, longeing, negating, negation, tangling, tangoing. | |
-3 letters: agelong, aneling, angling, anteing, antigen, antilog, antlion, atingle, atoning, eanling, elating, elation, enation, gaoling, gelatin, genital, gentian, gigaton, goaling, leaning, lentigo, loaning, longing, negaton, tangelo, tanging, toenail, tonging, tonnage. | |
-4 letters: ageing, aiglet, anoint, anting, eating, eloign, entail, entoil, eolian, eonian, etalon, gaeing, galiot, gannet, gating, gelant, gelati, gelato, genial, gentil, giglet, giglot, gingal, gitano, goalie, goglet, ingate, innate, intone, latigo, latino, legato, leggin, legion, legong, ligate, linage, linnet, loggia, loggie, longan, nation, niggle, noggin, nonage, noting, ogling, online, talion, tangle, tenail, tiglon, tineal, tingle, toeing, toggle, tolane, toling, toning. | |
-5 letters: agent, aggie, agile, aging, aglet, agone, algin, alien, align, aline, aloin, alone, along, anent, angel, angle, anile, anion, anole, atone, elain, elint, eloin, entia, genoa, giant, gigot, glean, glint, gloat, going, gonia, inane, ingle, ingot, inlet, laten, leant, legit, lento, liane, liang, ligan, linen, linga, lingo, logan, logia, longe, niton, nonet, notal, oaten, olein, talon, tango, telia, teloi, tenia, tenon, tigon, tinea, tinge, togae, toile, tolan, tonal, tonga, tonne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-g-i-l-n-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: goaltending. | |
+2 letters: agglutinogen, ganglionated, goaltendings, halogenating. | |
+3 letters: agglutinogens, outgeneraling. | |
+4 letters: agglutinogenic, conglomerating, congregational. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 4C 4F 4E 47 41 54 49 4E 47 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .-.. --- -. --. .- - .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01001100 01001111 01001110 01000111 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E L O N G A T I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 004C 004F 004E 0047 0041 0054 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)39464948413554434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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