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Definition: OBSCURING |
OBSCURINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Obscure |
Date "OBSCURING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1600. (references) |
Crosswords: OBSCURING |
| English words defined with "OBSCURING": blot out ♦ hide ♦ obliterate, Obscuration, obscure, Obscurement, Obumbration. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "OBSCURING": antenna effect. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Shown is a woman radiology technician preparing a 42 year old white woman for a mammogram. Both the technician and the woman are shown from the waist up. The technician is positioning the paddle used to compress the breast. The patient's face is turned towards the technician, away from the camera. Her right shoulder is raised obscuring the breast.Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | Penetrating 25,000 light-years of obscuring dust and myriad stars, the Hubble telescope has ...Credit: NASA. |
 | Tornado with large dust cloud obscuring funnel shape. During "Sound Chase", a joint project of NSSL and Mississippi State University.Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). | ||
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| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Smears may be unsatisfactory for a variety of reasons, the most common of which are obscuring blood or inflammation. (references) | |
Antibiotics received by many hospitalized, transfused patients may partially treat transfusion-transmitted syphilis, obscuring the diagnosis but not necessarily preventing long-term complications of the infection. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "OBSCURING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 93.46% of the time. "OBSCURING" is used about 107 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) | 93.46% | 100 | 32,668 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.74% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.8% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 107 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "OBSCURING": 2) obscuring power. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "OBSCURING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 遮暗 (Obscured). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | syremattering (acid embossing, acid frosting, frosting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | matteren (acid embossing, acid frosting, frosting, matting, powdering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mattaetsi (acid embossing, acid frosting, frosting), mattaetsaus (acid embossing, acid frosting, frosting), happomattaus (acid embossing, acid frosting, frosting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | matage à l'acide, dépolissage à l'acide. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vernebelung (screening), verdunklung (blacking out, blackout, blind, curtain, damaging, darkening, deepening, dimming, dulling, harming, suppression of evidence), verdunkelnd (beclouding, darkening, dimming, obscuringly), Säuremattieren (acid embossing, acid frosting, frosting), Mattätzen (acid embossing, acid frosting, frosting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ματάρισμα με οξύ (acid embossing, acid frosting, frosting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | oscuramento (blackout, darkening, dimming, obfuscation, obscuration), opacatura all'acido (acid embossing, acid frosting, frosting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 어둡게 함. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | obscuringay foscagem a ácido (acid embossing, acid frosting, frosting). (various references) затемнять затеинение затемняющий. (various references) mateado al ácido (acid embossing, acid frosting, frosting), esmerilado al ácido (acid embossing, acid frosting, frosting). (various references) syramattning (acid embossing, acid frosting, frosting), mattetsning (acid embossing, acid frosting, frosting). (various references) маскувальний. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | offuscatione. (various references) |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "OBSCURING" (pronounced ubskyuh"ring) |
| 6 | -k y uh" r i ng | curing, procuring, securing. |
| 5 | -y uh" r i ng | enduring. |
| 4 | -uh" r i ng | alluring, assuring, during, ensuring, insuring, luring, maturing, mooring, reassuring, touring. |
| 3 | -r i ng | acquiring, adhering, admiring, adoring, airing, appearing, aspiring, baring, barring, bearing, bioengineering, blaring, boring, caring, chairing, charring, cheering, childbearing, clearing, comparing, conspiring, daring, declaring, deploring, despairing, disappearing, domineering, earring, electioneering, endearing, engineering, expiring, exploring, fearing, firing, flaring, flooring, gearing, glaring, Goring, haring, hearing, herring, hiring, ignoring, impairing, imploring, inspiring, interfering, jarring, jeering, marring, ministering, nearing, outpouring, overbearing, overhearing, overpowering, pairing, paring, peering, perspiring, pioneering, poring, pouring, premiering, preparing, profiteering, quiring, racketeering, rearing, reengineering, rehearing, rehiring, repairing, restoring, retiring, roaring, scaring, scarring, scoring, searing, sharing, shearing, shoring, smearing, snaring, sneering, snoring, soaring, sparing, sparring, Spearing, squaring, staring, starring, steering, stevedoring, storing, swearing, tarring, tearing, tiring, uncaring, underscoring, uninspiring, unsparing, veering, volunteering, Waring, warring, wearing, wiring. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-g-i-n-o-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: coursing, curbings, scouring, sourcing. | |
-2 letters: bicrons, borings, bousing, brucins, congius, curbing, cursing, rousing, rubigos, scoring, sorbing, souring, subring. | |
-3 letters: bicorn, bicron, bingos, binocs, boring, bourgs, bourns, brings, broncs, brucin, bruins, buncos, burins, busing, coigns, corgis, coring, cornus, cosign, cousin, cubing, curing, curios, gibson, girons, grison, groins, guiros, incogs, incurs, orbing, orcins, robing, robins. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-g-i-n-o-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: bescouring. | |
+2 letters: obstructing. | |
+5 letters: macroglobulins, subcontracting. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 42 53 43 55 52 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- -... ... -.-. ..- .-. .. -. --. |
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