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Definition: PERCHING |
PERCHINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Perch |
Date "PERCHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | Inspection of cloth in a vertical(hanging)position or at an angle inclined upwards away from the source of the light. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Perching Ducks Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae Subfamily†: Anatinae
Genera Sarkidiornis
Malacorhynchus
Hymenolaimus
Merganetta
Pteronetta
Cairina
Aix
Nettapus
Salvadorina
Callonetta
Chenonetta
Amazonetta† See also Diving duck
Dabbling duckThe perching ducks are a small group of ducks in the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae. The latter article should be referred to for an overview of this very large family.
The perching ducks, together with the diving ducks and dabbling ducks make up the sub-family Anatinae.
As the name indicates, most of this group walk well and perch readily on branches and the like.
There are some taxonomic problems with this mainly southern group. It may currently be split into too many genera, and there are questions as to the coherence of the group as a whole.
The species are:
- Comb Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos
- Pink-eared Duck Malacorhynchus membranaceus
- Blue Duck Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos
- Torrent Duck Merganetta armata
- Hartlaub's Duck Pteronetta hartlaubi
- Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata
- White-winged Wood Duck Cairina scutulata
- Wood Duck Aix sponsa
- Mandarin Aix galericulata
- Green Pygmy Goose Nettapus pulchellus
- Cotton Pygmy Goose Nettapus coromandellanus
- African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus
- Salvadori's Duck Salvadorina waigiuensis
- Ringed Teal Callonetta leucophrys
- Maned Duck Chenonetta jubata
- Brazilian Duck Amazonetta brasiliensis
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Perching duck."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Height | Insessorial, perching. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PERCHING |
| English words defined with "PERCHING": Anisodactyls, Anomaliped ♦ Conirostres ♦ Insessores, Insessorial ♦ nonpasserine ♦ order Insessores ♦ passeriform bird, passerine, perchers, perching birds ♦ Wood lark. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PERCHING": INAUSPICIOUSLY ♦ songbirds. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A redwing blackbird perching atop reeds in a Patuxent river marsh. Arrow arum plants are in the foreground. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. Among the Romans it was customary before undertaking any important action or enterprise to obtain from the augurs, or state prophets, some hint of its probable outcome; and one of their favorite and most trustworthy modes of divination consisted in observing the flight of birds -- the omens thence derived being called auspices. Newspaper reporters and certain miscreant lexicographers have decided that the word -- always in the plural -- shall mean "patronage" or "management"; as, "The festivities were under the auspices of the Ancient and Honorable Order of Body-Snatchers"; or, "The hilarities were auspicated by the Knights of Hunger." A Roman slave appeared one day Before the Augur. "Tell me, pray, If --" here the Augur, smiling, made A checking gesture and displayed His open palm, which plainly itched, For visibly its surface twitched. A denarius (the Latin nickel) Successfully allayed the tickle, And then the slave proceeded: "Please Inform me whether Fate decrees Success or failure in what I To-night (if it be dark) shall try. Its nature? Never mind -- I think 'Tis writ on this" -- and with a wink Which darkened half the earth, he drew Another denarius to view, Its shining face attentive scanned, Then slipped it into the good man's hand, Who with great gravity said: "Wait While I retire to question Fate." That holy person then withdrew His scared clay and, passing through The temple's rearward gate, cried "Shoo!" Waving his robe of office. Straight Each sacred peacock and its mate (Maintained for Juno's favor) fled With clamor from the trees o'erhead, Where they were perching for the night. The temple's roof received their flight, For thither they would always go, When danger threatened them below. Back to the slave the Augur went: "My son, forecasting the event By flight of birds, I must confess The auspices deny success." That slave retired, a sadder man, Abandoning his secret plan -- Which was (as well the craft seer Had from the first divined) to clear The wall and fraudulently seize On Juno's poultry in the trees. G.J. |
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| "PERCHING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.87% of the time. "PERCHING" is used about 47 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) | 97.87% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.13% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 47 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "PERCHING": perching birds. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bird perching | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "PERCHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | perching. (various references) | |
Dutch | zangvogels (passeriformes, perching birds, songbirds). (various references) | |
French | perching. (various references) | |
German | Perching, Warenvorkontrolle, sich setzend, Gewebebeschauen. (various references) | |
Greek | στρουθιοειδή (passeriformes, perching birds, songbirds). (various references) | |
Italian | perching. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | erchingpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | revista (inspection, journal, magazine, muster, periodical, review, revue, roll call). (various references) | |
Russian | сидеть (sat, seat, set, sit, sits). (various references) | |
Spanish | perching. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"PERCHING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Parchine, pearcing, pecheneg, pechenegs, pechi, pechin, Peicheng, perchen, pierching, Premchand, serching. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-g-h-i-n-p-r" | |
-1 letter: creping, nephric, peching, phrenic, pincher. | |
-2 letters: cering, ceriph, cipher, cringe, eching, enrich, grinch, hinger, nigher, pincer, pinger, prince, richen. | |
-3 letters: chine, chirp, cripe, genic, genip, gripe, hinge, neigh, nicer, niche, perch, pinch, price, reign, renig, repin, ripen. | |
-4 letters: chin, chip, cine, cire, epic, gien, girn, grin, grip, heir, hern, hire, inch, nice, nigh, pech. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-g-h-i-n-p-r" | |
+1 letter: ciphering, cyphering, preaching. | |
+2 letters: chaptering, chippering, choppering, repatching, upreaching. | |
+3 letters: chaperoning, deciphering, enciphering, graphicness, morphogenic, preachingly, prechecking, prechilling, prepunching, renographic, reproaching, sepulchring. | |
+4 letters: cheeseparing, ethnographic, iconographer, outpreaching, preachifying, repurchasing, scenographic, sepulchering, shipwrecking, stenographic. | |
+5 letters: anthropogenic, cheeseparings, cinematograph, comprehending, graphicnesses, hectographing, helicoptering, iconographers, iconographies, morphogenetic, oceanographic, photoreducing, phrenological, prepurchasing, prescheduling, reproachingly, scenographies, sharecropping, supercharging. | |
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