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Definition: IRRADIATING |
IRRADIATINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Irradiate |
Date "IRRADIATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references) |
Crosswords: IRRADIATING |
| English words defined with "IRRADIATING": Irradiancy, Irradiant ♦ plutonium 239. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "IRRADIATING": intra-oral roentgen therapy. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | These organisms currently cause millions of infections and thousands of hospitalizations in the United States every year. Irradiating prepared ready-to-eat meats like hot dogs and deli meats, could eliminate the risk of Listeria from such foods. (references) | |
A facility in Florida has been irradiating strawberries and other fruits on a limited basis, to prolong shelf life. On a trial basis, fresh tropical fruits from Hawaii have been irradiated before shipping them to the mainland, instead of fumigating them to eliminate the fruit fly pests that could spread to the mainland. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "IRRADIATING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "IRRADIATING" 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) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "IRRADIATING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 照耀 (irradiate, Irradiated). (various references) | ||||
German | verbreitend (bandying, bruiting, diffusing, disseminating, propagating, vulgarizing), bestrahlend (irradiative). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | irradiatingay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-g-i-i-i-n-r-r-t" | |
-2 letters: radiating. | |
-4 letters: airting, antiair, arraign, darting, gardant, granita, ignatia, radiant, raiding, tarring, trading. | |
-5 letters: aiding, airing, antiar, arrant, daring, dating, gradin, gratin, nitrid, radian, raring, rating, riding, ritard, taring, tiding, tiring. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 52 52 41 44 49 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 01010010 01010010 01000001 01000100 01001001 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I R R A D I A T I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0052 0052 0041 0044 0049 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)4352523538433554434841 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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