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Definitions: FAINTING |
FAINTINGNoun1. Syncope, or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Faint |
Date "FAINTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of fainting, signifies illness in your family and unpleasant news of the absent. If a young woman dreams of fainting, it denotes that she will fall into ill health and experience disappointment from her careless way of living. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Factors that influence fainting are taking in too little food and fluids, low blood pressure, physical exercise in excess of the energy reserve of the body, and lack of sleep. If fainting happens frequently, it is advisable to see a doctor about it.
Faint is also a song by the nu-metal/rap metal band Linkin Park.
See also orthostatic hypotension.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fainting."
Synonym: FAINTINGSynonym: Loss of consciousness. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fatigue | Anhelation, shortness of breath; faintness; collapse, prostration, swoon, fainting, deliquium, syncope, lipothymy; goneness. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: FAINTING |
| English words defined with "FAINTING": Fainting fit ♦ Hare kangaroo ♦ Lipothymic, Lipothymous, Lipothymy ♦ To bring to. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "FAINTING": hemotherapis ♦ Mouse ♦ PHERESIS SPECIALIST. (references) |
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Screenplays | Be prepared for hysterics and even a fainting spell. (Witness for the Prosecution; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Larry Marcus) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fainting Lover (1931) Alicia Was Fainting (1994) | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
As It Fell Upon a Day | Carroll, Lewis | When he turned the handle round, The man fell fainting to the ground. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | An hour ago I had a fainting fit. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He stumbled towards the window, groaning and almost fainting with sickness. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Blood pressure is low and falls further when standing, causing dizziness or fainting. (references) | |
Difficulty in breathing (dyspnea), dizziness, and even fainting spells (syncope) are also typical early symptoms. (references) | ||
A lack of vasopressin can cause a great thirst, excess urination, voracious appetite accompanied by emaciation, loss of strength, and fainting. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christians were thrown to the lions, so centuries earlier in Otumwee, the most ancient and famous city of the world, female heretics were thrown to the mice. Jakak-Zotp, the historian, the only Otumwump whose writings have descended to us, says that these martyrs met their death with little dignity and much exertion. He even attempts to exculpate the mice (such is the malice of bigotry) by declaring that the unfortunate women perished, some from exhaustion, some of broken necks from falling over their own feet, and some from lack of restoratives. The mice, he avers, enjoyed the pleasures of the chase with composure. But if "Roman history is nine-tenths lying," we can hardly expect a smaller proportion of that rhetorical figure in the annals of a people capable of so incredible cruelty to a lovely women; for a hard heart has a false tongue. |
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Joe Esposito | Unbelievable. I mean, this was all new to me, too, because I never saw the big crowds like this. It was just like you see it on television. People were screaming and yelling, passing out, fainting. |
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| "FAINTING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 81.48% of the time. "FAINTING" is used about 54 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) | 81.48% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 11.11% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.56% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 54 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "FAINTING": Fainting fit ♦ fainting spell. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "FAINTING": fainting-fit. | |
Ending with "FAINTING": half-fainting, near-fainting. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fainting goat | 204 |
fainting | 191 |
fainting couch | 62 |
fainting cause | 31 |
fainting spells | 30 |
fainting goat video | 17 |
fainting goat tennessee | 13 |
fainting pregnancy | 10 |
fainting sofa | 10 |
fainting goat sale | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FAINTING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zali (faint, swoon), vilani (faint, swoon), i zalisur, i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy). (various references) | |
Arabic | تردد (ambivalence, backwards, balance, be in two minds, boggle, crane, demur, difficulty, dither, falter, flicker, float, fluctuate, fluctuation, hang, haunt, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitate, hesitation, hover, hum and haw, indecision, irresolution, pause, perplexity, puzzle over, reticence, reverberate, scruple, shilly shally, sound, stick, stop, stumble, tergiversation, timidity, vacillate, vacillation, vibrate, vibration, waver, wobble, worry), ضعف (attenuation, backwardness, crack, craze, debility, decrepitude, defect, delicacy, emaciation, enervation, failing, failure, feebleness, flabbiness, flightiness, frailness, frailty, grogginess, imitators, impairment, impotence, inadequacy, incapability, infirmity, lameness, languor, limp, limpness, shakiness, sickliness, sleeplessness, tenuousness, twice, uneasiness, weak spot, weaklings, weakness), إغماء (swoon, syncope). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | припадък (faint, fainting fit, fit, insensibility, paroxysm, seizure, swoon, syncope). (various references) | |
Chinese | 昏' (Fainted, Faints). (various references) | |
Czech | slabý (bad, decrepit, delicate, faint, feeble, fragile, frail, light, low, slack, tenuous, wan, watery, weak, weakly, weak-minded, weary). (various references) | |
French | défaillance (failing, failure). (various references) | |
German | ermattend (jading, languishing). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עלוף (swooning), עלפון (swoon, syncope, weakness), עטיפת פש (exhaustion, swoon), "תעלפות (swoon). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gyengülõ (failing, weakening), ájulás (collapse, coma, faint, faintness, swoon, syncope). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | '' (swooning). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そっとう (swooning). (various references) | |
Korean | 실 . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aintingfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | medrosamente (fainting fit, fearfulness), esvaimento (faint, fainting fit). (various references) | |
Romanian | leşin (faint, fainting fit, swoon). (various references) | |
Russian | слабеющий (failing), обморок (fainting-fit, swoon, syncope), падающий духом. (various references) | |
Scottish | faomadh (fainting from closeness or excitement), paisean (a fainting fit). (various references) | |
Spanish | síncope (fainting fit, fainting spell, faintness, syncopal attack, syncope, unconsciousness), desvanecimiento (fadeaway, fading, fading of signals, fainting fit, fainting spell, swoon, vanishing), desmayo (faint, insensibility, swoon, turn). (various references) | |
Swedish | svimning (faint, swoon, syncope). (various references) | |
Turkish | baygınlık (coma, faint, insensibility, stupor, swoon, syncopal, syncope, unconsciousness), bayılma (blackout, faint, swoon, syncopal). (various references) | |
Ukranian | зомління (fainting fit). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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| Avestan | 200-600 | frazâbaodhanghem. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"FAINTING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: faentine, Fainstein, faintings, faithing, faiting, Fantin, fauning, feining, Feininga, fernting, fiating, fiatting, fiiting, flinting, foining, foonting. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FAINTING" (pronounced fā"nting) |
| 5 | -ā" n t i ng | painting, repainting, tainting. |
| 4 | -n t i ng | accenting, accounting, amounting, appointing, augmenting, blunting, bunting, cementing, chanting, circumventing, commenting, complementing, complimenting, confronting, consenting, counting, daunting, decanting, denting, disappointing, discounting, disorienting, dissenting, documenting, enchanting, experimenting, fermenting, fingerprinting, flaunting, fomenting, fragmenting, fronting, glinting, granting, grunting, haunting, hinting, hunting, implanting, implementing, imprinting, inventing, lamenting, minting, misrepresenting, mounting, panting, parenting, patenting, pinpointing, planting, pointing, presenting, preventing, printing, ranting, recanting, recounting, reinventing, relenting, renting, replanting, representing, reprinting, resenting, shunting, slanting, sprinting, squinting, supplanting, supplementing, surmounting, taunting, tenting, tormenting, transplanting, unrelenting, unstinting, venting, wanting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, accosting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, adjusting, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, annotating, anticipating, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, arresting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, assisting, associating, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, authenticating, automating, 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, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bursting, busting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, casting, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, citing, clotting, coagulating, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, completing, complicating, composting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, congratulating, connecting, consisting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, delisting, demonstrating, denigrating, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, digesting, diluting, directing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discrediting, discriminating, disgusting, disintegrating, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, dusting, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, everlasting, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, existing, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fascinating, fasting, faulting, feasting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, firefighting, fitting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fretting, frosting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, gloating, graduating, grafting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, humiliating, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implicating, importing, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingesting, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, investigating, investing, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, laminating, lasting, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, listing, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, lusting, malting, mandating, manifesting, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, nesting, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, parachuting, participating, parting, pasting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pirating, pitting, placating, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, posting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, preexisting, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, readjusting, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recasting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinvesting, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, repatriating, repeating, replicating, reporting, repudiating, requesting, rerouting, resisting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, rusting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, suggesting, superconducting, supporting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, targeting, tasting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, terminating, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, toasting, tolerating, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unremitting, unseating, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, 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-f-g-i-i-n-n-t" | |
-2 letters: anting, fating, fining, infant, tining. | |
-3 letters: fagin, faint, giant. | |
-4 letters: agin, anti, fain, fang, fiat, gain, gait, gift, gnat, inia, inti, naif, tain, tang, ting. | |
-5 letters: aft, ain, ait, ani, ant, fag, fan, fat, fig, fin, fit, gan, gat, gin, git, inn, nag, nan, nit, tag, tan, tin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-g-i-i-n-n-t" | |
+1 letter: inflating. | |
+2 letters: flatlining, infracting, ingrafting. | |
+3 letters: antifoaming, antifogging, antiforeign, antifouling, fantasising, fantasizing, fascinating, festinating, fornicating, fountaining, fractioning, fulminating, infatuating, infuriating, interfacing, magnificent, manifesting, pathfinding, quantifying, reinflating, sanctifying, significant, transfixing. | |
+4 letters: confiscating, fanaticizing, faultfinding, fluorinating, fraternizing, infibulating, infiltrating, insufflating, interfacings, manifestoing, pathfindings, unsatisfying. | |
+5 letters: antiforeigner, beneficiating, configuration, defibrinating, fascinatingly, faultfindings, fianchettoing, fractionating, fragmentizing, infantilizing, infuriatingly, insignificant, intergrafting, lignification, magnification, magnificently, nonfigurative, overinflating, pontificating, significantly, signification, transfiguring. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 41 49 4E 54 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- .. -. - .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01000001 01001001 01001110 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F A I N T I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0041 0049 004E 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)4035434854434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Spoken 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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