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Definitions: FETTLING |
FETTLINGNoun1. The operation of shaving or smoothing the surface of undried clay ware. 2. A mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mechanical Engineering | Eliminates the flash produced during stamping or cutting out. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Elimination of shorter fibres by various rollers and drums. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Protecting the bottom of the open-hearth furnace with loose material, such as ore, sand, etc.; also, the material so used b. The process of repairing a steel-furnace hearth, with dead-burned magnesite or burned dolomite, between tapping and recharging the furnac. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: FETTLING |
| Specialty definitions using "FETTLING": PRESS OPERATOR. (references) |
| "FETTLING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "FETTLING" is used about 4 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) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
fettling | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FETTLING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 補爐 , 修补 (fettle, Patched, Patching, revamp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sugetragt (pipe(in ingot), shrinkage, vug), sprøjtepudsning (patching), slyngning (patching, turn), renskaering (dressing, trimming), karderensning (card strip, card stripping), karderengøring, kantslibning, kantpudsning, afpudsning i tør tilstand (towing), afpudsning i læderhård tilstand. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | flikken (finish, finishing, mend, patch, patch up, patching, patel), spatsen, slinkholte (contraction cavity, pipe, pipe(in ingot), piping, shrink holes, shrinkage, shrinkage cavity, tube, vug), repareren (fix, patching, repair), reinigen van zijkanten na glazuren, leerhard afwerken, droog afwerken (towing), afwerken van kanten (de-flash, dressing, flash, flash-lathe, to de-burr, to fettle, to take the burr off, to trim, to trim the edges off, trimming), afbramen (de-burr, de-fin, de-flash, dressing, fettle, flash, flash-lathe, to de-burr, to fettle, to take the burr off, to trim, to trim the edges off, trimming), aanwerpen met vuurvaste stoffen (patching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | paikkaus (patch, patching, replacement of failed area). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | finissage sec, finissage consistance du cuir, retassure, rachevage, réparation des réfractaires, râclage, gunitage, débourrage de carde, balayage de la carde, ébavurage, ébarbage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Flicken (botch, cobble, darn, mend, odds and ends, patch, patch up, patching, repair, tinker, to botch, to cobble, to darn, to mend, vamp), Verputzen im trockenen Zustand (towing), Schwundkegel (pipe(in ingot), shrinkage, vug), Schwindung (pipe(in ingot), shrinkage, vug), primaerer Kegel (pipe(in ingot), shrinkage, vug), Lunker (blowhole, cavity, contraction cavity, pipe, pipe(in ingot), piping, shrink cavity, shrink hole, shrink holes, shrinkage, shrinkage cavity, tube, vug), Lederhartverputzen, Kratzenausputz (card strip, card stripping), Kanten putzen, Entgraten (burr, de-burr, de-fin, de-flash, dressing, flash, flash-lathe, to burr, to de-burr, to fettle, to take the burr off, to trim, to trim the edges off, trimming), Abgraten (de-flash, dressing, flash, flash-lathe, to de-burr, to fettle, to take the burr off, to trim, to trim the edges off, trimming). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βούρτσα από ψάθα για καθάρισμα του χαρτζιού, ξέσμα (zest), ξέση (towing), περίκοψη (dressing, trimming), φινίρισμα κατά το στέγνωμα (towing), επισκευή πυριμάχων τοιχωμάτων (patching), επιδιόρθωση πυρίμαχων τοιχωμάτων (patching), απομάκρυνση πηλού από τα άκρα, διακένωση (pipe(in ingot), piping, shrinkage, vug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | finitura a verde con arnese, finitura a secco (towing), spazzatura di carda (card strip, card stripping), sbavatura (burr, dressing, dribbling, expulsion, flash, overflow, slime, smear, spew, splash, trimming), raschiatura (erasure, scrape, scraping, streak), cono primario (pipe(in ingot), shrinkage, vug), cono di ritiro (contraction cavity, pipe, pipe(in ingot), shrinkage, shrinkage cavity, tube, vug), cavit di ritiro (pipe(in ingot), shrink cavity, shrink hole, shrinkage, vug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ettlingfay reparação do refractário (patching), rechupe (contraction cavity, pipe, pipe(in ingot), shrinkage, shrinkage cavity, tube, vug), rebarbar (fettle, patching), rebarbamento (dressing, trimming), operação de eliminação de rebarbas (dressing, trimming), limpeza das cardas (card strip, card stripping), desperdícios da carda, desbarbar (de-burr, de-fin), acabamento em seco (towing), acabamento de peças com consistência de couro. (various references) fregaduras, reparación del revestimiento (patching), rechupe (contraction cavity, depression, hollow, pipe, pipe(in ingot), shrink cavity, shrink hole, shrinkage, shrinkage cavity, suck-in, tube, vug), gunitado (gunning, patching), desborramiento de carda (card strip, card stripping), desbarbado (dressing, trimming), acabado en seco (towing), acabado de piezas con consistencia de cuero. (various references) putssprutning (patching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FETTLING": fettlings. (additional references) | |
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"FETTLING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fitling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "FETTLING" (pronounced 'Fet"tling'): Bottling, Throstling, Turtling. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-g-i-l-n-t-t" | |
-1 letter: felting, fetting, letting. | |
-2 letters: feting, gentil, litten, tingle. | |
-3 letters: elfin, elint, feign, feint, filet, fling, flint, flite, glint, ingle, inlet, legit, tinge, title. | |
-4 letters: felt, file, fine, flit, gelt, gent, gien, gift, gilt, glen, left, lent, lief, lien, life, lift, line, ling, lint, lite, neif, nett, nite, tent, tile, tilt, tine, ting, tint. | |
-5 letters: eft. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-g-i-l-n-t-t" | |
+1 letter: fettlings. | |
+2 letters: flattening, flattering, flittering, fluttering. | |
+3 letters: befittingly, filmsetting, leafletting. | |
+4 letters: butterflying, felicitating, filmsettings, flatteringly, sulfuretting, unflattering. | |
+5 letters: fortnightlies, lightfastness, weightlifting. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 45 54 54 4C 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . - - .-.. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01000101 01010100 01010100 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F E T T L I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0045 0054 0054 004C 0049 004E 0047 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4039545446434841 |
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