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Definition: HAZING |
HAZINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Haze |
Date "HAZING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Slang | Verb. Source: Unkown. Definition: An act where new members are informally inducted by means of embrassing or demeaning acts. Now illegal at University of Oregon's Greek Life. Context: A term that is associated with embrassment. When it is refered to, new members become cautious and hope that it is not in practice. Social Source: Gamma Phi Beta Sorority. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Hasty Hazing (1917) Hazing Affair in a Girls' Boarding School (1899) The Hazing (2003) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Kazakhstan | Military hazing remained a problem. (references) |
Azerbaijan | Hazing of the victims is suspected. (references) | |
Latvia | In May the Ministry of Defense initiated a program to eliminate hazing. (references) | |
Minorities | Armenia | Yezidi children on occasion reported hazing by teachers and classmates. (references) |
Political Economy | Russia | Hazing in the armed forces resulted in a number of deaths. (references) |
Belarus | There were reports of severe hazing in the military during the year. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "HAZING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "HAZING" 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) | 50% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 50% | 2 | 245,945 |
| 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 |
hazing | 791 |
high school hazing | 111 |
hazing video | 58 |
fraternity hazing | 56 |
chicago hazing | 55 |
hazing sorority | 54 |
glenbrook hazing | 52 |
hazing northbrook | 39 |
hazing law | 33 |
frat hazing | 30 |
hazing picture | 30 |
college hazing | 24 |
hazing illinois | 24 |
hazing story | 23 |
school hazing | 22 |
hazing incident | 20 |
hazing powder puff | 19 |
hazing military | 18 |
hazing pic | 16 |
girl hazing | 15 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "HAZING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Czech | přetìžování prací. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | schikanierend (deviling, tormenting). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | lehúzás (diáké). (various references) | ||||||||||
Indonesian | perpeloncoan, perlakuan kejam, penggojlokan. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | azinghay novatada (initiation, initiatory ragging, rag). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "HAZING": hazings. (additional references) | |
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"HAZING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: azing, Haazen, Habinb, haeing, haning, hasing, Hasni, Hasnip, husing, mazing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HAZING" (pronounced hā"zing) |
| 4 | -ā" z i ng | amazing, appraising, blazing, gazing, glazing, grazing, phasing, phrasing, praising, raising, razing. |
| 3 | -z i ng | abusing, accusing, advertising, advising, aggrandizing, agonizing, amortizing, amusing, analyzing, antagonizing, apologizing, appeasing, appetizing, arising, arousing, authorizing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, brutalizing, bulldozing, buzzing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, carousing, categorizing, causing, centralizing, characterizing, chastising, choosing, cleansing, closing, colorizing, commercializing, composing, comprising, compromising, computerizing, confusing, criminalizing, criticizing, cruising, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, decomposing, decriminalizing, deemphasizing, defusing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, devising, diffusing, digitizing, disclosing, disguising, disposing, downsizing, dozing, dramatizing, easing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, enclosing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, espousing, excusing, exercising, exposing, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, foreclosing, formalizing, franchising, fraternizing, freezing, fusing, galvanizing, generalizing, glamorizing, harmonizing, hosing, housing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immortalizing, immunizing, imposing, improvising, industrializing, infusing, institutionalizing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, losing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, misusing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, musing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, nosing, oozing, opposing, organizing, overgrazing, overusing, oxidizing, paralyzing, paraphrasing, patronizing, pausing, penalizing, personalizing, perusing, pleasing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, posing, predisposing, prioritizing, privatizing, proposing, proselytizing, publicizing, quizzing, rationalizing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, recusing, refusing, reimposing, reorganizing, reusing, revising, revitalizing, revolutionizing, rising, romanticizing, Rosing, sanitizing, satirizing, schmoozing, scrutinizing, securitizing, seizing, sensationalizing, sizing, sneezing, snoozing, socializing, specializing, squeezing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, strategizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, supposing, surprising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, teasing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, uncompromising, unionizing, unsurprising, uprising, using, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, victimizing, visualizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing, womanizing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-h-i-n-z" | |
-1 letter: ghazi. | |
-2 letters: agin, gain, hang, nazi, nigh, zing. | |
-3 letters: ain, ani, gan, ghi, gin, hag, hin, nag, nah, zag, zig, zin. | |
-4 letters: ag, ah, ai, an, ha, hi, in, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-h-i-n-z" | |
+1 letter: hazings. | |
+2 letters: huzzaing, whizbang. | |
+3 letters: hazarding, huzzahing, whizbangs, whizzbang. | |
+4 letters: aphorizing, archaizing, hebraizing, hepatizing, humanizing, whizzbangs. | |
+5 letters: alchemizing, anthologize, authorizing, catechizing, empathizing, emphasizing, euthanizing, harmonizing, mechanizing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 41 5A 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- --.. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000001 01011010 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H A Z I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0041 005A 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)423560434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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