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INCISING

Definition: INCISING

INCISING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Incise

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 



Specialty Definitions: INCISING

DomainDefinitions

Food & Agriculture

A preparatory treatment of refractory timbers by making shallow cuts along the grain, so that deeper and more uniform penetration of preservative may be obtained. Source: European Union. (references)
 Puncturing of the lateral surface of a resistant wood as an aid in securing penetration of the preservative. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: INCISING

English words defined with "INCISING": cut, cut outPharyngotome. (references)
Specialty definitions using "INCISING": ADZING-AND-BORING-MACHINE OPERATORPIPE-AND-TANK FABRICATORtie-mill operator. (references)
Etymologies containing "INCISING": incise. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: INCISING

SubjectTopicQuote

Women

Indonesia

No national legislation exists on FGM. Customary ("adat") law has allowed for symbolic female circumcision and small-cut (mild) incisions of the clitoris, which would fall under the World Health Organization's (WHO's) type IV classification of FGM (this category includes pricking, piercing or incising of the clitoris). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: INCISING

"INCISING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "INCISING" is used about 2 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%2245,945

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

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Modern Translations: INCISING

Language Translations for "INCISING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

(incise, incised, sliced, slicing). (various references)

   

Danish

  

indsproejtning af traebeskyttelsesmiddel, nålestiksmetode. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

insnijden (inlay, intersection). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sisäänleikkuu. (various references)

   

French

  

incision (incision), traitement par incision. (various references)

   

German

  

einschneidend (cutting in, drastic, far reaching, gashing, nicking, radical, trenchant). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εγκοπή (cell, detent, dimple for a shot pin, groove, incision, indentation, indenture, nick, notch, recess, score, seed cell, slash, slot, slotting). (various references)

   

Italian

  

incisione (acid embossing, acid etching, biting, cut, cutting, embossing, engraving, etched image, etching, incision, notch, print, recording, woodcut), trattamento per incisione. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

incisingay

   

Portuguese

  

incisão (check, crizzle, cut, cutting, incision, kerf, Nick, score, scotch, scribing, section, skin crack, slit, snick, vent), tratamento por incisões. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

incisión (excision, incision, scoring, scribing), tratamiento por incisiones. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

incising. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: INCISING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-g-i-i-i-n-n-s"

-2 letters: icings.

-3 letters: icing.

-4 letters: cigs, gins, inns, nisi, sign, sing.

-5 letters: cig, cis, gin, inn, ins, sic, sin.

 Words containing the letters "c-g-i-i-i-n-n-s"
 

+2 letters: cutinising, inclinings, inscribing, miscoining, sinicizing.

 

+3 letters: anglicising, decisioning, reminiscing, scientizing, significant.

 

+4 letters: disciplining, disinclining, disinfecting, isoantigenic, scrutinising, scrutinizing, significance, significancy, suspicioning.

 

+5 letters: cannibalising, commissioning, diagnostician, disconfirming, discontinuing, incongruities, insignificant, linguistician, masculinising, masculinizing, miscaptioning, misconceiving, nonlinguistic, romanticising, scintillating, significances, significantly, signification.

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

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Alternative Orthography: INCISING


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

49 4E 43 49 53 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)

01001001 01001110 01000011 01001001 01010011 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#78 &#67 &#73 &#83 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 004E 0043 0049 0053 0049 004E 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

4348374353434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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