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PRECLUDING

Definition: PRECLUDING

PRECLUDING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Preclude

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "PRECLUDING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references)

Crosswords: PRECLUDING

Specialty definitions using "PRECLUDING": pari passu clause ♦ transceiver, transceiver unit. (references)

Etymologies containing "PRECLUDING": Preclude. (references)

Non-Fiction Usage: PRECLUDING

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		There are no requirements precluding traveler entry to any country. (references)
		Other possible indications for patients with BMI's between 35 and 40 include obesity-induced physical problems interfering with lifestyle (e.g., joint disease treatable but for the obesity, or body size problems precluding or severely interfering with employment, family function, and ambulation). (references)
Civil Liberties	Taiwan	Among other restrictions regulating the media are those precluding persons previously convicted of sedition from owning, managing, or working in television and radio stations. (references)
Economic History	Sweden	Swedish governments have not defined nonalignment as precluding outspoken positions in international affairs. (references)
Human Rights	Cameroon	Elsewhere, the French legal tradition applies, precluding judicial authorities from acting on a case until the administrative authority that ordered the detention turns the case over to the prosecutor. (references)
Political Economy	Kazakhstan	The Constitution limits Parliament's powers by precluding it from appropriating state money or lowering taxes without executive branch approval. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Usage Frequency: PRECLUDING

"PRECLUDING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PRECLUDING" is used about 30 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%	30	63,341

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Modern Translation: PRECLUDING

Language		Translations for "PRECLUDING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		阻止 (Damped, Damping, Debar, Debarred, Debarring, Deter, Deterred, Deterring, forestall, Forestalled, forestalling, Preclude, Precluded). (various references)

German		ausschließen (bar, blackball, debar, deprive, disqualify, draw out, drive out, eliminate, except, exclude, expel, express, forbid, foreclose, give utterance to, leave out, lock out, preclude, pull out, rule out, space out, suspend, to exclude, to foreclose, to space out, utter). (various references)

Korean		� �외 (Excepting). (various references)

Pig Latin		ecludingpray

Russian		предотвращать предотвращающий (averting). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Rhyming with "PRECLUDING"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "PRECLUDING" (pronounced prikluw"ding)
6	-k l uw" d i ng	concluding, excluding, including.
5	-l uw" d i ng	alluding, colluding, deluding, eluding.
4	-uw" d i ng	brooding, denuding, extruding, feuding, intruding, protruding.
3	-d i ng	abiding, abounding, acceding, according, adding, affording, aiding, amending, applauding, apprehending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, banding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, breeding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, demanding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, encoding, ending, eroding, evading, exceeding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, fading, featherbedding, feeding, fending, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handholding, handing, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, intending, interceding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebounding, rebuilding, receding, recommending, recording, Redding, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, trading, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unloading, unwinding, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wending, wielding, Wilding, winding, withholding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding, yielding.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Anagrams: PRECLUDING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-g-i-l-n-p-r-u"
	-1 letter: decupling, preluding.
	-2 letters: cupeling, curdling, indulger, reducing, ulcering, underlip, unpriced.
	-3 letters: cleping, clinged, clinger, clueing, clupeid, creping, cringed, cringle, curding, curling, deucing, dueling, dungier, educing, eluding, guilder, gulpier, include, inducer, indulge, nuclide, plunder, plunged, plunger, pudgier, pungled, purline, purling, unpiled.
	-4 letters: ceding, cering, cinder, clerid, cluing, cringe, cudgel, cueing, curdle, curing, curled, dinger, dingle.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-g-i-l-n-p-r-u"
	+3 letters: prescheduling, reduplicating.
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Alternative Orthography: PRECLUDING

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 52 45 43 4C 55 44 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.--. .-. . -.-. .-.. ..- -.. .. -. --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01010010 01000101 01000011 01001100 01010101 01000100 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#69 &#67 &#76 &#85 &#68 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 0045 0043 004C 0055 0044 0049 004E 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50523937465538434841

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency

5. Translations: Modern
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography

9. Bibliography

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