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Definition: HEAPING |
HEAPINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Heap |
Date "HEAPING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Crosswords: HEAPING |
| English words defined with "HEAPING": Acervation, Aggeration ♦ Coacervation, Cumulation ♦ Exacervation ♦ Hilling ♦ Viz-cacha. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "HEAPING": moundfowl ♦ Pelion. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | That's a heaping helpin' of moolah! (The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!; writing credit: Ian Johnston) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Heaping rice bowl.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "HEAPING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HEAPING" is used about 14 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) | 100% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "HEAPING". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Telassar | N/A | Biblical | Heaping up |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "HEAPING": age-heaping. | |
| 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 |
bowl brew heaping | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "HEAPING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | häufend (massing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πλεονάζων (redundant, surplus), υπερπλήρησ (brimful, chock full, congested, overcrowded, replete). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "'"ש" (piling, stacking), '"יש" (piling, stacking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | egymásra hányó. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eapinghay tòrradh (burial, heaping or piling up). (various references) apilado (dumping, stacking, stacking casks, tipping), amontonamiento (congestion, crowding, gathering, huddle, overcrowding, stacking). (various references) переповнений (chock full, crowded, flown, heaped, overflowing, replete). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "HEAPING": overheaping, upheaping. (additional references) | |
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"HEAPING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: heafing, heaning, heapin, heeping, Heilprin, Heping, herapin, Hoiping, hua-peng, Huapi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HEAPING" (pronounced hē"ping) |
| 4 | -ē" p i ng | beeping, bleeping, creeping, keeping, leaping, peeping, reaping, safekeeping, seeping, sleeping, sweeping, weeping. |
| 3 | -p i ng | antidumping, aping, backslapping, bookkeeping, bumping, burping, camping, capping, carping, Chipping, chirping, chomping, chopping, clamping, clapping, clipping, clumping, coping, copping, cramping, crimping, cropping, damping, developing, dipping, draping, dripping, drooping, dropping, dumping, eavesdropping, enveloping, equipping, escaping, flapping, flipping, flopping, galloping, gaping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, griping, gripping, groping, grouping, gulping, handicapping, harping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, hyping, jumping, kidnaping, kidnapping, lamping, landscaping, lapping, limping, lopping, lumping, mapping, moping, mopping, napping, nipping, outstripping, overlapping, overstepping, peacekeeping, pimping, piping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, pumping, ramping, raping, rapping, recapping, recouping, regrouping, reshaping, revamping, ripping, romping, roping, sapping, scalping, scooping, scoping, scraping, scrapping, scrimping, shaping, shipping, shopping, sidestepping, sipping, skimping, skipping, slapping, slipping, sloping, slumping, snapping, sniping, snooping, sopping, stamping, stepping, stereotyping, stomping, stooping, stopping, strapping, stripping, stumping, swamping, swapping, swiping, swooping, tamping, taping, tapping, thumping, tipping, topping, tramping, trapping, tripping, trooping, typing, unwrapping, upping, usurping, videotaping, walloping, Wapping, warping, whipping, whooping, whopping, wiping, Wiretapping, worshipping, wrapping, zapping, zipping. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-i-n-p" | |
-1 letter: haeing. | |
-2 letters: aping, genip, hinge, neigh, phage. | |
-3 letters: agin, epha, gaen, gain, gane, gape, gien, haen, hang, heap, nape, neap, nigh, nipa, page, pain, pane, pang, peag, pean, pein, pian, pina, pine, ping. | |
-4 letters: age, ain, ane, ani, ape, eng, gae, gan, gap, gen, ghi, gie, gin, gip, hae, hag, hap, hen, hep, hie, hin, hip, nae, nag, nah, nap, nip, pah, pan, pea, peg, peh, pen, phi, pia, pie, pig, pin. | |
-5 letters: ae, ag, ah, ai, an, eh, en, ha, he, hi, in, na, ne, pa, pe, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-i-n-p" | |
+1 letter: peaching. | |
+2 letters: hampering, happening, pleaching, preaching, reshaping, threaping, upheaping, upheaving. | |
+3 letters: chaptering, cheapening, happenings, headspring, hepatizing, impeaching, lightplane, megaphonic, pathogenic, prehearing, preheating, preshaping, prewashing, repatching, rephrasing, sharpening, springhead, upreaching. | |
+4 letters: alphabeting, blaspheming, chaperoning, despatching, empathising, empathizing, emphasising, emphasizing, generalship, graphicness, headsprings, hyphenating, lightplanes, managership, megaphoning, monophagies, negrophobia, overheaping, preachingly, prehearings, renographic, reproaching, semaphoring, spaghettini, springheads, upgathering. | |
+5 letters: apprehending, cheeseparing, ethnographic, gamesmanship, generalships, iconographer, managerships, negrophobias, nomographies, nonhappening, outpreaching, packinghouse, paperhanging, pathbreaking, pathogenesis, pathogenetic, phenological, philandering, phrasemaking, preachifying, renographies, repurchasing, scenographic, sonographies, spaghettinis, spearfishing, spearheading, stenographic, superheating, telegraphing, venographies. | |
| 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 45 41 50 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .- .--. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000101 01000001 01010000 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H E A P I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0045 0041 0050 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)42393550434841 |
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