Paring

Definition: Paring

Paring

Noun

1. A thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something.

2. (usually plural) a part of a fruit or vegetable that is pared or cut off; especially the skin or peel; "she could peel an apple with a single long paring".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "paring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)

Synonyms: Paring

Sharpness

Wedge; knife edge, cutting edge; blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor, electric razor; scalpel; bistoury, lancet; plowshare, coulter, colter; hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill; billhook, cleaver, cutter; scythe, sickle; scissors, shears, pruning shears, cutters, wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter; sword; (arms); bodkin; (perforator); belduque, bowie knife, paring knife; bushwhacker; drawing knife, drawing shave; microtome; chisel, screwdriver blade; flint blade; guillotine.

Smallness

Small quan modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair.

Crosswords: Paring

Dutch (copulation).

Consumer Goods

• Calphalon 3-Inch Bird's Beak Paring Knife (reference)

• Sabatier Fuso 2-Inch Stainless Steel Bird's Beak Paring Knife (reference)

• Henckels Twingrip 4-Piece Colored Paring Knives (reference)

• OXO MV-55 Pro 3-1/2-Inch Paring Knife (reference)

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There is a butcher block cutting board on a white tablecloth. On the table are peapods, purple cabbage, cherry tomatoes, watercress, carrots, cauliflower and radishes. On the cutting board is a red pepper and an orange paring knife. In front of the board is a grey and white plaid napkin. See also AV-3905. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

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

Mrs. Wainwright took a paring knife from her apron pocket and slipped it under the mattress

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Economic History

Korea

The first stage, which took effect immediately, fully liberalized all current-account transactions by business firms and banks, thereby paring down the former list of restricted transactions to five items, most of which cover foreign exchange transactions by individuals. (references)

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Expressions using "paring": cheese paring ♦ paring knife. Additional references.

Beginning with "paring": paring-down.

Ending with "paring": apple-paring, cheese-paring.

Albanian

qërim (excoriation), lëkurë pemësh, krasitje (shearing), copa të prera (clippings). (various references)

Bulgarian 

кастрене, окастряне (ax, axe, stripping, trimming), обелване (excoriation, exfoliation, peeling), подрязване (clipping). (various references)

Chinese 

削去 (Pare, Pared). (various references)

Czech

krájení. (various references)

Danish

grat (burr, flash, overflow, shaving, spew, trimming). (various references)

Dutch

het overtollige (burr, shaving, trimming), afvijlsel (burr, shaving, trimming), afsnijdsel (burr, meat scraps, meat trimmings, shaving, trimming). (various references)

French

ébarbure. (various references)

German

schälend (hulling, husking, peeling), Schälen (Hull, husk, pare, peel, shell, shuck, skin, to pare, to peel). (various references)

Greek 

ξεφλούδισμα (peeling), φλούδι (peeling), απόξεσμα (burr, shaving, trimming), αποξάκριδο (burr, shaving, trimming). (various references)

Hebrew 

קלוף (desquamation, peeled, peeling, sloughing), קלפ�" (bark, Hull, husk, Peel, rind, shell, skin, tegument). (various references)

Hungarian

forgács (bur, burr, chippings, Flinders, raspings, shavings, shiver, shivers, sliver, Spall, trimmings), reszelék (filing, filings, grating, gratings, raspings), nyesés (chop, cut, shearing, trimming), nyírás (clip, clipping, shear, shearing, trimming), megnyesés, megnyírás, levágott darab (cutting), levágás (ablation, amp, concision, short cut, slam, slaughter), lenyírás, lehámozott rész (parings), legyalulás, lefaragás (shaving), hulladék (cabbage, clippings, cut-offs, cuttings, debris, dross, end, garbage, junk, lop, oddments, offal, pickings, refuse, scrapings, spilt, spoilage, sweepings, trash, wastage, waste), hámozás (shelling, skinning). (various references)

Italian

raffilatura (burr, cut-off, dressing, edging off, shaving, trim, trimming), buccia (husk, Peel, pod, rind, shuck, skin). (various references)

Manx

scryssan, scryss (grin, growl, growler, ill-natured person, peel, rind, scowl, scraping, shaving), kynneen, kinneig (breadcrumb, crumb, particle, scraping). (various references)

Pig Latin

aringpay.(various references)

Portuguese

poda (heading, pollarding, pruning, prunning, topping), rebarba (barb, fash), limalha (filings, rasping, scobs), desbaste (acuminate, blocking, down-the-row thinning, gapping, grinding, pre-thinning, sharpen, single, singling, skiving, surface grinding, thinning, to grind tools, whet 3)grounding), aparadela. (various references)

Romanian

zgârie-brânzã (a regular screw, an old screw, cheese paring, skinflint), zgârcit (accumulator, avaricious, cheese paring, churlish, clenched, close, close-fisted, close-handed, costive, covetous, curmudgeon, grasping, hunks, illiberal, iron-fisted, mean, miser, miserly, money grubber, muckworm, parsimonious, penny father, penny-wise, penurious, screw, skimpy, skin, skinflint, sparing, stingy, tight), zgârcenie (avarice, cheese paring, closeness, costiveness, covetousness, miserabliness, parsimony, skimp, stinginess), coajã de brânzã (cheese paring). (various references)

Russian 

срезывание, урезывать урезывание, кожура (aril, pod, rind, shell, skin), очистки (peelings), обрезывание, обрезки (cuttings). (various references)

Scottish

sgroill (a peeling or paring). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ljuštenje (peeling, shelling), ljušćenje (peeling, shelling). (various references)

Spanish

peladura (peeling), rebaba (bur, burr), mondadura, corte (blade, break, circumcision, concision, court, cutting, drop, edge, failure, hack, haircut, incision, kerf, length, Nick, notch, outage, put down, retinue, scarf, section, snick). (various references)

Swedish

något avklippt (parings), beskärning (curtailment, trimming), avskalning. (various references)

Turkish

soyma, kabuğunu soyma. (various references)

Ukrainian

очищання, підрізування (clipping, polling, pruning, trim). (various references)

Vietnamese 

việc xén, việc gọt, việc cắt, vụn xén ra, mấu gọt ra. (various references)

putamine. (various references)

retail. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "paring": parings. (additional references)

Words ending with "paring": cheeseparing, comparing, intercomparing, preparing, sparing, unsparing. (additional references)

Words containing "paring": cheeseparings, sparingly, unsparingly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Paring" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aparine, aprin, paering, paign, paing, pairn, paradg, Paran, Parayno, Pardini, pareing, parging, pariage, parian, Parigi, parin, Paringaud, Paringaux, parning, parony, parping, parrin, parring, Parrino, parving, pearcing, pearing, perding, perig, perin, Perng, perning, perong, perping, Pirin, pirins, prain, Prariond, preng, pring, Pringi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: raping.

-1 letter: aping, garni, grain, prang.

-2 letters: agin, airn, gain, girn, gnar, gran, grin, grip, nipa, pain, pair, pang, pian, pina, ping, pirn, prig, ragi, rain, rang, rani, ring.

-3 letters: ain, air, ani, gan, gap, gar, gin, gip, nag, nap, nip, pan, par, pia, pig, pin, rag, ran, rap, ria, rig, rin, rip.

-4 letters: ag, ai.

+1 letter: carping, craping, draping, graplin, gripman, harping, pairing, parging, parings, parking, parling, parring, parsing, parting, pignora, prating, praying, ramping, rapping, rasping, reaping, sparing, warping.

+2 letters: agrypnia, aproning, aspiring, capering, carpings, cramping, crapping, frapping, graphing, grapline, graplins, grasping, handgrip, harpings, pagurian, pairings, papering, parading, parawing, parching, pargings, parkings, paroling, parrying, partings, partying, pearling, perigean, phrasing, pingrass, pirating, praising, prancing, pranging, pranking, prawning, ralphing, repaving, repaying, retaping, scarping, scraping, sharping, sparging, sparking, sparling, sparring, spearing, spraying, springal, tapering, tramping, trapping, uprating, vaporing, wrapping.