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Definition: HARBORING |
HARBORINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Harbor |
Date "HARBORING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
Crosswords: HARBORING |
| English words defined with "HARBORING": Receiptment. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "HARBORING": Anisakiasis ♦ Carrier State ♦ flame cultivation, flame weeding ♦ Salmonella Food Poisoning. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Convince her to talk to her mother, or face charges of obstructing justice and harboring a fugitive. (Alias; writing credit: Robert Soulé; Henri de Turenne) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In areas of poor sanitation, everyone may be harboring the parasite. (references) | |
The fungus has been found in poultry house litter, caves, areas harboring bats, and in bird roosts. (references) | ||
A causal relationship between H. pylori and peptic ulcer disease is more difficult to establish from the available data, in part because of the lack of an animal model and because only a small proportion of individuals harboring the organism develop ulceration. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Oman | Until the promulgation of the Basic Charter, the Government did not have a policy on refugees or a tradition of harboring stateless or undocumented aliens. (references) |
India | The Religious Institutions (Prevention of Misuse) Act makes it a criminal offense to use any religious site for political purposes or to use temples for harboring persons accused or convicted of crimes. (references) | |
Malaysia | Government officials, including the Prime Minister, continued to accuse the foreign media of harboring ill intentions toward the country and of deliberately misrepresenting the country's political and economic environment by focusing on negative news. (references) | |
Economic History | Georgia | The law enforcement agencies responsible for criminal cases have themselves been identified as harboring corrupt officials. (references) |
Human Rights | Sierra Leone | Eyewitnesses to CDF attacks on villages suspected of harboring RUF members and supporters alleged that CDF members killed indiscriminately, which resulted in civilian fatalities. (references) |
Burundi | On October 25 in Bubanza province, government forces killed 13 civilians, including at least 6 women and 2 children, apparently in reprisal for the civilians' harboring of rebel soldiers. (references) | |
Minorities | Iran | Kurds often are suspected by government authorities of harboring separatist or foreign sympathies. (references) |
Worker Rights | Burkina Faso | The note stated that the Government has instructed officials to investigate and prosecute violations related to the trafficking, transport, harboring, or trading in children. (references) |
Malaysia | From 1998 through June, 130 individuals involved in the harboring of prostitutes were placed under "restricted residence." The Restricted Residence Act is designed to deter organized criminal activity and requires individuals to temporarily move to a predetermined location far from their usual domicile, and check in regularly with police. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Saddam Hussein is harboring terrorists and the instruments of terror, the instruments of mass death and destruction. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| 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 |
fugitive harboring | 3 |
harboring runaway | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "HARBORING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | ζζ (Harbored). (various references) | |
German | beherbergend. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | θ"΅εΏ (concealment, shelter), ζ±ζ (cherishing, entertaining), ζ²εΊ . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | γγγ¨γ (concealment, shelter), γγγγ², γ»γγγ (breaking down, caving in, cherishing, collapse, crumbling, decay, entertaining). (various references) | |
Korean | μ λ° (Anchoring). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arboringhay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | hospita, hospitis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"HARBORING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: harbouring, Harbourne, Hardouin, Khabarin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HARBORING" (pronounced hÄ"rbering) |
| 4 | -b er i ng | belaboring, clobbering, dismembering, laboring, lumbering, neighboring, numbering, outnumbering, remembering, slobbering, slumbering, sobering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | administering, altering, anchoring, angering, answering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, beleaguering, bettering, bewildering, bickering, blistering, blundering, blustering, bolstering, bordering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clamoring, clustering, cluttering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, countering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dithering, doctoring, doddering, embroidering, empowering, encountering, endangering, endeavoring, entering, factoring, faltering, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, festering, figuring, filibustering, filtering, fingering, flattering, flavoring, flickering, floundering, flowering, fluttering, fostering, foundering, fracturing, frittering, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glittering, glowering, grandfathering, guttering, hammering, hampering, hankering, hectoring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, lettering, levering, lingering, littering, loitering, lowering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, mastering, maundering, meandering, measuring, mentoring, metering, minoring, mirroring, mitering, mongering, monitoring, mothering, motoring, murdering, murmuring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neutering, nonmanufacturing, nurturing, offering, ordering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, pestering, petering, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plastering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, puttering, quivering, recapturing, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, reentering, registering, rejiggering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scattering, scouring, sculpturing, sequestering, severing, shattering, sheltering, shimmering, shivering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, shuttering, simmering, slaughtering, slithering, smattering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, squandering, staggering, structuring, stuttering, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, sweltering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, teetering, tempering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, tottering, towering, transpiring, triggering, tutoring, uncovering, unflattering, unwavering, ushering, uttering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, warmongering, watering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, wondering, Wuthering, zippering. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: abhorring. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-g-h-i-n-o-r-r" | |
-2 letters: barring, bighorn, hagborn, roaring. | |
-3 letters: bagnio, baring, barong, barrio, boring, brogan, gabion, garron, gharri, harbor, haring, oaring, onagri, orbing, origan, raring, robing. | |
-4 letters: abhor, arbor, argon, bairn, baron, bhang, bingo, bogan, boing, brain, briar, bring, garni, giron, gnarr, goban, gonia, grain, groan, groin, hogan, noria, ohing, orang, organ, rhino, rigor, robin. | |
-5 letters: abri, agin, agio, agon, airn, bang, bani, barn, birr, boar, bong, bora, born, brag, bran, brig, brin, brio, gain, garb, girn, giro, gnar, grab, gran, grin, hair, hang, hoar, hong, hora, horn, inro, iron, naoi, nigh, noir, nori, obia, ohia, orra, ragi, rain, rang, rani, ring, roan, roar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-g-h-i-n-o-r-r" | |
+1 letter: harbouring. | |
+3 letters: charbroiling. | |
+4 letters: overbreathing. | |
+5 letters: overbreathings, wheelbarrowing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 41 52 42 4F 52 49 4E 47 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- .-. -... --- .-. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000001 01010010 01000010 01001111 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H A R B O R I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0041 0052 0042 004F 0052 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)423552364952434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Quotations: Speeches 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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