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Definition: EXCAVATING |
EXCAVATINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Excavate |
Date "EXCAVATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
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 | At the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service's Big Flats (New York) Plant Materials Center, scientists are excavating eastern gamagrass roots for study.Credit: USDA ARS News. |  | Eastern Washington University students excavating rockshelter at Fishtrap Man. Area, Washington.Credit: Rich Bailey. |
 | A mighty excavating engine at work in the canal bottom, Panama.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Excavating for new reservoir at Slater, Mo.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Excavating for the new Union Station, Detroit, Mich.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Widtsoe land use adjustment project. Garfield County, Utah. Loading boulder on stone boat, while excavating new spillway of Tropic Dam.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Widtsoe land use adjustment project. Garfield County, Utah. Excavating new spillway of Tropic Dam.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Excavating and constructing open hearth furnaces for a new steel mill.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Excavating within the log cofferdam during an early stage of construction, Douglas Dam, Tenn.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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 | Dirt; construction; worker; digging; dig; excavation; excavating; excavate; hole; earth; . |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "EXCAVATING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.44% of the time. "EXCAVATING" is used about 39 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) | 97.44% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 39 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "EXCAVATING": Excavating pump. 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 "EXCAVATING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 挖掘 (Excavate, Excavated, Excavation, Quarried, Quarrying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | udstyr til fjernelse og opgravning af jord (earth moving and excavating plant), de mest almindelige typer af afgravningsmateriel,der anvendes til vejarbejde,er gravemaskinen samt bugserscraperen (the most common types of excavating plant used on roadworks are the general purpose excavator and the tractor-scraper unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | materieel voor het vervoeren en ontgraven van grond (earth moving and excavating plant), de meest gebruikte graafmachines in de wegenbouw zijn de universele graafmachine en de scraper of grondschaaf met trekker (the most common types of excavating plant used on roadworks are the general purpose excavator and the tractor-scraper unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | excavant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | ausgrabend (digging out, unearthing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | εξοπλισμός εκσκαφής και μεταφοράς υλικών (earth moving and excavating plant), Τα συχνότερα χρησιμοποιούμενα στην οδοποιία εκσκαπτικά μηχανήματα είναι ο εκσκαφέας γενικής χρήσης και ο ελκόμενος αποξεστήρας. (the most common types of excavating plant used on roadworks are the general purpose excavator and the tractor-scraper unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | le macchine escavatrici piu spesso utilizzate nei lavori stradali sono l'escavatore universale e la ruspa semovente (the most common types of excavating plant used on roadworks are the general purpose excavator and the tractor-scraper unit), attrezzatura per la scavo e per il movimento delle terre (earth moving and excavating plant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 切り開き (clearing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きりひらき (clearing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 굴착 (Excavation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | excavatingay instrumento de desaterro:escavadora:moto-seraper;-Os instrumentos de desaterro mais utilizados nos trabalhos de estradas são a escavadora e a moto-seraper (the most common types of excavating plant used on roadworks are the general purpose excavator and the tractor-scraper unit). (various references) equipo de excavación y movimientos de tierras (earth moving and excavating plant), los tipos de excavadoras más corrientes utilizadas en la construcción de carreteras son la excavadora universal y la traílla automotriz (the most common types of excavating plant used on roadworks are the general purpose excavator and the tractor-scraper unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "EXCAVATING" (pronounced e"kskuvā'ting) |
| 6 | -u v ā' t i ng | activating, aggravating, elevating, motivating, renovating, salivating. |
| 5 | -v ā' t i ng | captivating, cultivating, reactivating. |
| 4 | -ā' t i ng | abbreviating, abdicating, abrogating, accelerating, accentuating, accommodating, accumulating, adjudicating, administrating, advocating, affiliating, agitating, alienating, alleviating, allocating, alternating, anticipating, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, articulating, assassinating, assimilating, associating, authenticating, automating, calculating, castigating, castrating, celebrating, chlorinating, circulating, coagulating, collaborating, commemorating, communicating, compensating, complicating, concentrating, confiscating, congratulating, consolidating, consummating, contaminating, contemplating, cooperating, coordinating, corroborating, culminating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, degenerating, delegating, deliberating, delineating, demonstrating, denigrating, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, designating, deteriorating, detonating, devastating, dictating, differentiating, discriminating, disintegrating, disseminating, dissipating, domesticating, dominating, donating, duplicating, educating, elaborating, electroplating, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emulating, encapsulating, enunciating, equivocating, eradicating, escalating, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, exacerbating, exaggerating, exasperating, excoriating, excruciating, exhilarating, exonerating, extenuating, exterminating, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fascinating, fluctuating, formulating, frustrating, generating, graduating, gravitating, gyrating, hesitating, humiliating, hydrogenating, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impersonating, implicating, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, infatuating, infiltrating, infuriating, ingratiating, initiating, instigating, insulating, integrating, interrogating, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, investigating, invigorating, irritating, isolating, laminating, legislating, levitating, liberating, liquidating, litigating, locating, lubricating, mandating, manipulating, masturbating, mediating, meditating, migrating, misappropriating, mitigating, moderating, mutilating, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negotiating, nitrating, nominating, nonoperating, obliterating, obviating, officiating, operating, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, overestimating, overstating, participating, penetrating, percolating, permeating, perpetrating, perpetuating, placating, pontificating, populating, precipitating, predominating, procrastinating, prognosticating, proliferating, promulgating, propagating, pulsating, radiating, reallocating, recalculating, reciprocating, recreating, recuperating, redecorating, reevaluating, regenerating, regulating, rehabilitating, reincorporating, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejuvenating, relegating, renegotiating, repatriating, replicating, repudiating, resonating, resuscitating, retaliating, reverberating, rotating, saturating, segregating, separating, simulating, speculating, stagnating, stimulating, stipulating, subordinating, suffocating, syndicating, tabulating, terminating, titillating, tolerating, underestimating, understating, undulating, urinating, vacillating, validating, ventilating. |
| 3 | -t i ng | abating, abducting, abetting, aborting, abutting, accenting, accepting, accosting, accounting, accrediting, acquitting, acting, adapting, addicting, adjusting, admitting, adopting, affecting, afflicting, airlifting, alerting, allotting, amounting, annotating, appointing, arresting, assaulting, asserting, assisting, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, carpeting, carting, casting, catapulting, cavorting, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commenting, committing, commuting, competing, complementing, completing, complimenting, composting, computing, concocting, conducting, conflicting, confronting, connecting, consenting, consisting, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, contacting, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, decanting, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, deleting, delighting, delisting, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deserting, destructing, detecting, detracting, devoting, dieting, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, disgusting, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, dissenting, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, dusting, eating, editing, effecting, elating, electing, eliciting, emitting, enacting, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, equating, erecting, erupting, escorting, everlasting, evicting, exacting, exalting, excepting, exciting, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhorting, existing, exiting, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extorting, extracting, extraditing, fainting, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, grafting, granting, grating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, hunting, hurting, igniting, impacting, imparting, implanting, implementing, importing, imprinting, inciting, indicting, infecting, infighting, inflating, inflicting, ingesting, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instituting, instructing, insulting, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrupting, intersecting, inventing, investing, inviting, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, lasting, letting, lifting, lighting, limiting, listing, looting, lusting, malting, manifesting, marketing, marting, mating, matting, meeting, melting, minting, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, mounting, mutating, muting, negating, neglecting, nesting, netting, nonbiting, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obstructing, offsetting, omitting, opting, orbiting, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, perfecting, permitting, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, porting, posting, pouting, predicting, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, profiting, prohibiting, projecting, promoting, prompting, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, readjusting, reasserting, rebutting, recanting, recasting, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recruiting, redacting, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regretting, reigniting, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, rejecting, relating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renting, repainting, repeating, replanting, reporting, representing, reprinting, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotting, rusting, salting, saluting, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, selecting, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, starting, stating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, toasting, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underreporting, underwriting, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, vacating, vaulting, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-g-i-n-t-v-x" | |
-1 letter: caveating. | |
-2 letters: cavatine, exacting, navigate, vacating, vaginate. | |
-3 letters: agnatic, inexact, vaginae, vantage, venatic, vintage. | |
-4 letters: acetin, acting, active, agnate, atavic, ataxic, aviate, axenic, catena, caveat, caving, centai, eating, enatic, exacta, incage, ingate, native, taenia, taxing, vacant, vacate, vagina, vexing. | |
-5 letters: aceta, acing, actin, aecia, again, agate, agave, agent, antae, antic, avant, avian, axing, axite, cavie. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-g-i-n-t-v-x" | |
+4 letters: extravagancies. | |
| 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)45 58 43 41 56 41 54 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -..- -.-. .- ...- .- - .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01011000 01000011 01000001 01010110 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E X C A V A T I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0058 0043 0041 0056 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)39583735563554434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Sounds 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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