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"HOBBING" is a common misspelling or typo for: bobbing, fobbing, Hibbing, hobbling, jobbing, lobbing, mobbing, robbing, sobbing. |
| Domain | Definition |
Mechanical Engineering | A process in which the mould cavity is formed by forcing a hardened steel master, having the same shape and dimensions as the required moulded component into a soft steel block. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | To coin an impression into a cold or hot die block by applying pressure to a male impression. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | A gear-machining operation in which teeth are generated by rotating HOB and gear blank against each other with action similar to that of worm gear. See GEAR GENERATING. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: HOBBING |
| Specialty definitions using "HOBBING": GEAR HOBBER SET-UP OPERATOR ♦ hobbing-machine operator ♦ relief milling ♦ tangential feed. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Conversion. Farm implements to cargo winches. Hobbing a gear for a cargo winch for the Maritime Commission. This machine in the converted Midwestern plant of a farm implement manufacturer was used to produce gears for tractors and other farm equipment. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "HOBBING" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HOBBING" is used about 3 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "HOBBING": hobbing machine. 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hobbing | 43 |
gear hobbing | 9 |
gear hobbing software | 6 |
hobbing machine | 3 |
gear hobbing machine | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "HOBBING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | dybprægning (typing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | hobben (typing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | upotus (sinking), upottaminen (immersion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | impression. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Einsenken (typing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τύπωση (printing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | impressione (feeling, hunch, impact, impress, impression, imprint, sensation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | obbinghay imprensar (impact, sandwich). (various references) estampación (tooling), acuñar (chock, coin, emboss, key, mint, strike, wedge). (various references) djupprägling (typing). (various references) kalıp makinesi (hob, hobbing machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HOBBING" (pronounced hÄ"bing) |
| 4 | -Ä" b i ng | bobbing, lobbing, robbing, sobbing, throbbing. |
| 3 | -b i ng | absorbing, bribing, clubbing, curbing, dabbing, describing, disturbing, drubbing, dubbing, ebbing, gabbing, grabbing, hobnobbing, jabbing, nabbing, prescribing, probing, ribbing, rubbing, scrubbing, snubbing, stabbing, subbing, subscribing, tabbing, transcribing, tubing, webbing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-g-h-i-n-o" | |
-1 letter: gibbon. | |
-2 letters: bingo, boing, ohing. | |
-3 letters: bong, hong, nigh. | |
-4 letters: bib, big, bin, bio, bob, bog, ghi, gib, gin, gob, hin, hob, hog, hon, ion, nib, nob, nog, noh, obi. | |
-5 letters: bi, bo, go, hi, ho, in, no, oh, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-g-h-i-n-o" | |
+1 letter: hobbling. | |
+2 letters: hobgoblin, throbbing. | |
+3 letters: hobgoblins, hobnobbing. | |
+4 letters: thingamabob. | |
+5 letters: beachcombing, outthrobbing, thingamabobs. | |
| 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)48 4F 42 42 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... --- -... -... .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01001111 01000010 01000010 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H O B B I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 004F 0042 0042 0049 004E 0047 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42493636434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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