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Definition: FLESHING |
FLESHINGNoun1. A person devoted to fleshly things. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Flesh |
Crosswords: FLESHING |
| English words defined with "FLESHING": Flesher, Fleshment. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "FLESHING": Fleshment. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Fleshing out analogies (Andy Richter Controls the Universe; writing credit: John Banas) | |
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Books | |
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| "FLESHING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "FLESHING" is used about 10 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) | 90% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "FLESHING": fleshing machine. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "FLESHING": fleshing-out. | |
| 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 |
fleshing machine | 5 |
fleshing knife | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FLESHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | skelettering (fleshing off), skavemaskine (fleshing machine), pelsbereder (fleshing machine operator), excarnatio (fleshing off), evne til muskelansaetning (ability to put on meat, fleshing ability, meat producing capacity, muscle growth capacity), evne til koedaflejring (ability to put on meat, fleshing ability, meat producing capacity, muscle growth capacity), affald fra skavning (fleshing waste). (various references) | |
Dutch | vleesmachine (fleshing machine), viller met de machine (fleshing machine operator), vermogen tot vleesvorming (ability to put on meat, fleshing ability, meat producing capacity, muscle growth capacity), vermogen tot vleesproduktie (ability to put on meat, fleshing ability, meat producing capacity, muscle growth capacity), strek-en vleesmachine (fleshing machine), slichter met de machine (fleshing machine operator), schraapafval (fleshing waste), machinevlezer (fleshing machine operator), excarnatio (fleshing off). (various references) | |
Finnish | lihantuotantokyky (ability to put on meat, fleshing ability, meat producing capacity, muscle growth capacity). (various references) | |
French | machine à écharner (fleshing machine), déchet d'écharnage (fleshing waste), décharnage (fleshing off), aptitude à la production de viande (fleshing ability), écharneuse (fleshing machine), écharneur de peaux à la machine (fleshing machine operator). (various references) | |
German | Fleischbildungsvermögen (fleshing ability), Fleischabschabung (fleshing waste), Exkarnation (fleshing off), Entfleischmaschine (fleshing machine), Entfleischer (fleshing machine operator). (various references) | |
Greek | κρεατοπαραγωγική ικανότητα (ability to put on meat, fleshing ability, meat producing capacity, muscle growth capacity), μηχανή αποσάρκωσης (fleshing machine), χειριστής μηχανής καθαρισμού δερμάτων (fleshing machine operator), απόβλητο διαχωρισμού άνυδρου ασβέστου (fleshing waste), αφαίρεση επιπολής σαρκίων (fleshing off). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לבוש הדוק, בגד גוף. (various references) | |
Italian | scarnificazione (fleshing off), scarnatore a macchina (fleshing machine operator), macchina per scarnare (fleshing machine), carniccio (fleshing waste, fleshings), capacità produttiva di carne (ability to put on meat, fleshing ability, meat producing capacity, muscle growth capacity). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 肉付け (fleshing out, modeling). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | にくづけ (fleshing out, modeling). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eshingflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | resíduo das operações de descarna (fleshing waste), máquina de descarnar (fleshing machine), limpador de peles à máquina (fleshing machine operator), escarnificação (fleshing off), descarnador de peles à máquina (fleshing machine operator). (various references) | |
Spanish | residuo de descarnadura (fleshing waste), maquina de descarnar (fleshing machine), descarnamiento (fleshing off), capacidad para producir carne (ability to put on meat, fleshing ability, meat producing capacity, muscle growth capacity). (various references) | |
Swedish | proteinansättningspotential (ability to put on meat, fleshing ability, meat producing capacity, muscle growth capacity), proteinansättningsförmåga (ability to put on meat, fleshing ability, meat producing capacity, muscle growth capacity). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FLESHING": fleshings. (additional references) | |
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"FLESHING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fleching, Lezhina. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-g-h-i-l-n-s" | |
-1 letter: english, selfing, shingle. | |
-2 letters: elfins, elfish, feigns, flings, hinges, ingles, neighs, single, sleigh. | |
-3 letters: elfin, feign, files, fines, flesh, flies, fling, glens, heils, hinge, ingle, lenis, liens, lines, lings, neifs, neigh, nighs, segni, sengi, shelf, shiel, shine, singe, sling. | |
-4 letters: egis, elhi, engs, fehs, fens, figs, file, fils, fine, fins, fish, gels, gens, ghis. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-g-h-i-l-n-s" | |
+1 letter: angelfish, fleshings. | |
+2 letters: anglerfish, flemishing, fletchings, lungfishes, nightlifes. | |
+3 letters: angelfishes, fingerholds, flightiness, goldfinches, reshuffling. | |
+4 letters: anglerfishes, cliffhangers, farthingales, refreshingly, rightfulness. | |
+5 letters: fellowshiping, flightinesses, flugelhornist, fortnightlies, frightfulness, lightfastness. | |
| 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. | |
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