NOTCHING

Definitions: NOTCHING

NOTCHING

Noun

1. A method of excavating, as in a bank, by a series of cuttings side by side. See also Gulleting.

2. A method of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched portions.

3. The small hollow, or hollows, cut; a notch or notches.

4. The act of making notches; the act of cutting into small hollows.

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Notch

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "NOTCHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	A method of removing bark and any minor buttresses by axe or saw round the base of a tree, preparatory to making the undercut. Source: European Union. (references)
Metallurgy	The separation of a smaller portion or portions of a sheet metal workpiece by a subsequent blanking or shearing operation. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A. A method of excavating in a series of steps b. Cutting out various shapes from the edge of a strip, blank, or par. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: NOTCHING

Synonyms by domain: facing (food & agriculture), laying in, rounding up, setting up.

Crosswords: NOTCHING

English words defined with "NOTCHING": Emargination ♦ Godroon ♦ Hoop lock ♦ Serrature. (references)

Specialty definitions using "NOTCHING": BELL MAKER, BELL-NECK HAMMERER, BOTTOM WHEELER ♦ folder-and-notcher ♦ HOOK TENDER ♦ IRONWORKER-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ LABEL CODER, label marker ♦ MULTI-OPERATION-FORMING-MACHINE OPERATOR I ♦ TIMBER-FRAMER HELPER. (references)

Domain	Title
References	The World Market for Numerically Controlled Punching or Notching Machines, Presses, and Combined Punching and Shearing Machines: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Just before the notch is cut, sand bags are placed at the headwaters to allow notching of the dam. Once the dam is notched the ladder can be fit into place.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.		A close up of two workers notching the dam. The saw sprays water around the work area. This image was used in the NOAA Restoration Center brochure.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		An asymmetric lesion is one that is not regularly round or oval. Border irregularity refers to notching, scalloping, or poorly defined lesion margins. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"NOTCHING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.37% of the time. "NOTCHING" is used about 38 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)	97.37%	37	56,631
Noun (proper)	2.63%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	38	N/A

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.

Language		Translations for "NOTCHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vrimë (aperture, bore, dump, ear, excavation, eye, eyehole, eyelet, gap, hole, leak, mesh, mortise, mouth, notch, nozzle, open, opening, orifice, Peck, perforation, pinhole, prick, puncture, recession, rent, shell-hole, slit, slot, tear, vent, venthole), shënim (annotation, comment, denotation, denotement, designation, entry, epigram, gloss, jotting, memorandum, notation, notch, note, paragraph, record, remark, writing), e prerë (chamfer, cut, indentation, Nick, notch, snip, split, twist), dhëmbëz (barb, cog, Dent, denticle, dentil, jag, merlon, Nock, notch, pallet, tooth). (various references)

Chinese		刻凹痕 (Notched). (various references)

Danish		afskæring af rodudløb (cornering, facing, laying in, rounding up, setting up, side cutting, side notching). (various references)

Dutch		verwijderen van wortelaanlopen (cornering, facing, laying in, rounding up, setting up, side cutting, side notching). (various references)

Finnish		loveaminen (cornering, facing, laying in, rounding up, setting up, side cutting, side notching). (various references)

French		égobelage (side notching). (various references)

German		Wurzelanläufe (cornering, facing, laying in, rounding up, setting up, side cutting, side notching). (various references)

Greek		προπαρασκευαστική τομή (cornering, side cutting, side notching). (various references)

Hebrew		חרוק (grinding, indentation). (various references)

Hungarian		rovátka (chase, cut, gouge, groove, indent, jag, nick, notch, score, scotch, snick), rálapolás. (various references)

Italian		regolarizzazione della base (cornering, facing, laying in, rounding up, setting up, side cutting, side notching). (various references)

Korean		노치 (Notch, Notched). (various references)

Pig Latin		otchingnay

Portuguese		corte da sapata (cornering, facing, laying in, rounding up, setting up, side cutting, side notching). (various references)

Russian		выемка (cannelure, coulisse, cutting, gab, groove, gutter, indent, indentation, notch, recess, roach, ward), насечка (hatching), надрез (hack, incision, scotch, snick), зарубка (dap, gab, hack, kerf, notch, snick). (various references)

Spanish		anillado de apeo (cornering, facing, laying in, rounding up, setting up, side cutting, side notching). (various references)

Ukranian		ручний пуск, шпунтування, виїмка (chamfer, channel, coulisse, gouge, indent, notch), окільцьовування дерева, насічка (hacking, hatching, wound), надріз (cutting, gash, scotch, snip), зарубка (dap, hag, kerf, notch, score, snick, wound). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"NOTCHING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nanchang, notghing, nothine, nothingy, Otchizna. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-g-h-i-n-n-o-t"
	-1 letter: chignon, nothing.
	-2 letters: chiton, coning, coting, gothic, honing, noting, toning.
	-3 letters: chino, coign, conin, incog, ingot, night, ninth, niton, notch, ohing, ontic, thing, thong, tigon, tonic.
	-4 letters: chin, chit, chon, cion, coin, coni, conn, hint, hong, icon, inch, into, itch, nigh, otic, thin, thio, ting, tong.
	-5 letters: chi, cig, cog, con, cot, ghi, gin, git.
	Words containing the letters "c-g-h-i-n-n-o-t"
	+2 letters: unclothing.
	+3 letters: nonteaching, outpunching.
	+4 letters: antipoaching, chlorinating, truncheoning.
	+5 letters: anthropogenic, clotheslining, countinghouse, fianchettoing, nonpathogenic, pathognomonic, shortchanging, underclothing, unforthcoming.
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