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Definition: IMPREGNATING |
IMPREGNATINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Impregnate |
Date "IMPREGNATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
| Synonyms by domain: coating and impregnating of fabric (industry), fire-retardant impregnating liquid (public administration, chemical industry), impregnating agent (chemistry, engineering & technologychemical industry), impregnating compound (building & civil engineering, industrychemical industry), impregnating insulating varnish (chemical industry, metallurgy), impregnating liquid (chemistry, engineering & technology), impregnating machine (industry, meteorology & standardschemical industry, meteorology & standards), impregnating plant (building & civil engineering, industry), impregnating resin (public administration), impregnating roller (european union, personal care & hotels), impregnating substance (building & civil engineering, industry), impregnating wax (engineering & technology), impregnator (chemical industry, meteorology & standards), ink for impregnating ink pads (european union), machine for impregnating (industry, meteorology & standards), machine for impregnating wood under pressure (european union, industry), machine for impregnating wool, ramie etc., water repellent impregnating product (european union, chemical industry). |
Crosswords: IMPREGNATING |
| English words defined with "IMPREGNATING": Alkalization, Aromatization ♦ Gasogen ♦ Hepatization ♦ Mineralization ♦ Saturant, Silicification, Sulphuration, Sulphurator, Superinpregnation ♦ Terebinthinate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "IMPREGNATING": ASBESTOS-WIRE FINISHER, asphalt-machine operator ♦ BRAKE-LINING FINISHER, ASBESTOS ♦ catalyst impregnator, CELL MAKER ♦ ELECTRONICS ASSEMBLER ♦ impregnated leather, impregnating helper, IMPREGNATING-MACHINE OPERATOR, IMPREGNATOR, IMPREGNATOR OPERATOR, IMPREGNATOR-AND-DRIER HELPER ♦ laminated material ♦ mass-impregnated and drained insulation ♦ powellizing process ♦ solid woven conveyor belt, SUPERVISOR, POWDERED METAL ♦ TREATING-ENGINEER HELPER. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Business | Two hundred companies are engaged in the manufacturing of fiber and particle board, impregnating and laminating for uses other than plywood. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "IMPREGNATING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "IMPREGNATING" is used about 8 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) | 87.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "IMPREGNATING": impregnating agent. 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 |
impregnating sealer | 14 |
impregnating sealers | 13 |
impregnating | 3 |
impregnating plant | 3 |
impregnating wife | 2 |
impregnating story | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "IMPREGNATING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 怀孕 (impregnate, impregnated, Pregnancy, Pregnant). (various references) | |
French | impregnant. (various references) | |
German | imprägnierend, befruchtend (fecundating, fertilizing, fructifying, inseminating). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | impregnatingay.(various references) | |
Swedish | impregneringsmedel (impregnating agent). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-i-i-m-n-n-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: germinating. | |
-2 letters: emigrating, garmenting, geminating, impregnant, impregning, margenting, pertaining, pigmenting, repainting. | |
-3 letters: imparting, intergang, margining, migrating, parenting, pargeting, regaining, reimaging, remaining, reminting, retaining, tampering. | |
-4 letters: agenting, angering, arginine, emigrant, enraging, graining, granting, imaginer, impinger, inarming, meriting, migraine, mitering, negating, paintier, painting, patining, pirating, pranging, pregnant, printing, reigning, remating, renaming, repining, retaping, retiming, ripening, tapering, tingeing, training, trainmen, tramping, triaging, triennia. | |
-5 letters: aginner, airtime, airting, anteing, antigen, earning, engrain, entrain, epigram, gaining, gaiting, garment, gearing, gentian, germina, gimpier, gimping, ginnier, girning, girting, granite, grannie, gratine, grating, griming, griping, gripman, gripmen, igniter, imagine, imaging, impaint, imperia, impinge, impregn, imprint, inertia, ingrain, ingrate, interim, intimae, iteming, mangier, mannite, margent, marting, martini, meaning, merging, metring, migrant, migrate, minaret, mingier, mintage, mintier, minting, mitring, naggier, nearing, paining, painter, pairing, panging, pannier, panting, parging, parting, peining, perming, pertain, piggier, pigment, pinging, pinnate, prating, primage, primate, primine, priming, ragtime, raiment, raining, ramping, ranging, ranting, reaming, reaping, regnant, reining, remnant, renting, repaint, ringent, ringgit, ringing, tamping, tangier, tanging, teaming, tearing, tegmina, temping, terming, termini, tiering, timpani, tinging, tinnier, trepang, trining. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 4D 50 52 45 47 4E 41 54 49 4E 47 |
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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).. -- .--. .-. . --. -. .- - .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01001101 01010000 01010010 01000101 01000111 01001110 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I M P R E G N A T I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 004D 0050 0052 0045 0047 004E 0041 0054 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)434750523941483554434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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