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PRIDING

Definition: PRIDING

PRIDING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Pride

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "PRIDING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references)


Non-Fiction Usage: PRIDING

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

India

Priding itself as a secular, centrist party, the Congress has been the historically dominant political party in India. (references)

Guatemala

More and more, hotels and restaurants are priding themselves by advertising AImported U.S. meats in their menus. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: PRIDING

"PRIDING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PRIDING" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)100%3202,518

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

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Modern Translation: PRIDING

Language Translations for "PRIDING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

骄傲 (Prided, Proud). (various references)

   

German

  

sich einbildend. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

자랑 (Boast, Boasting, Bragging). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

idingpray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: PRIDING

Misspellings

"PRIDING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: paridign, perioding, pradine, preding, priden, Pridi, Prindon, prising, proding, prydain, Prydein. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: PRIDING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-g-i-i-n-p-r"

-1 letter: pidgin, riding, riping.

-2 letters: grind, indri, iring, piing, rigid.

-3 letters: ding, drip, gird, girn, grid, grin, grip, irid, nidi, ping, pirn, prig, rind, ring.

-4 letters: dig, din, dip, gid, gin, gip, nip, pig, pin, rid, rig, rin, rip.

-5 letters: id, in, pi.

 Words containing the letters "d-g-i-i-n-p-r"
 

+1 letter: dripping.

 

+2 letters: depriving, diapering, drippings, presiding, providing, redipping, upgirding.

 

+3 letters: despairing, disparting, dispersing, disporting, disprizing, disproving, disrupting, lipreading, pedicuring, peroxiding, poniarding, prebinding, predicting, preediting, pyramiding, springtide, upbraiding.

 

+4 letters: airdropping, bediapering, deciphering, disparaging, dispiriting, dispraising, dispreading, lipreadings, predefining, predicating, predrilling, prejudicing, prescinding, redisposing, repudiating, springtides.

 

+5 letters: depolarizing, depreciating, despairingly, disappearing, disapproving, distempering, dopaminergic, fingerpicked, guardianship, imparadising, jeopardising, jeopardizing, philandering, preadmitting, predestining, predigesting, predigestion, predisposing, premodifying, preordaining, presignified, redepositing, redisplaying, reprimanding, rhapsodizing, underpinning, underpricing, unprivileged.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PRIDING


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

50 52 49 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 01001001 01000100 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#73 &#68 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 0049 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)

50524338434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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