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HEAPING

Definition: HEAPING

HEAPING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Heap

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "HEAPING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

 

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Crosswords: HEAPING

English words defined with "HEAPING": Acervation, AggerationCoacervation, CumulationExacervationHillingViz-cacha. (references)
Specialty definitions using "HEAPING": moundfowlPelion. (references)

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Modern Usage: HEAPING

DomainUsage

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.

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Photo Album: HEAPING

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Heaping rice bowl.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: HEAPING

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)100%1493,893

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: HEAPING

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "HEAPING".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
TelassarN/ABiblical

Heaping up

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Expression: HEAPING

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "HEAPING": age-heaping.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HEAPING

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bowl brew heaping

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: HEAPING

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

   

Scottish

  

tòrradh (burial, heaping or piling up). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

apilado (dumping, stacking, stacking casks, tipping), amontonamiento (congestion, crowding, gathering, huddle, overcrowding, stacking). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

переповнений (chock full, crowded, flown, heaped, overflowing, replete). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: HEAPING

Derivations

Words ending with "HEAPING": overheaping, upheaping. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "HEAPING"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "HEAPING" (pronounced hē"ping)
4-ē" p i ngbeeping, bleeping, creeping, keeping, leaping, peeping, reaping, safekeeping, seeping, sleeping, sweeping, weeping.
3-p i ngantidumping, 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.

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Anagrams: HEAPING

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.

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Alternative Orthography: HEAPING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 45 41 50 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

....    .    .-    .--.    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01000101 01000001 01010000 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#69 &#65 &#80 &#73 &#78 &#71

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

42393550434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Derived from
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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