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Definition: PROSPECTING |
PROSPECTINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Prospect |
Date "PROSPECTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. The search for outcrops or surface exposure of mineral deposits. b. Searching for new deposits; also, preliminary explorations to test the value of lodes or placers already known to exist. c. The surface discovery of coal or mineral only proves its superficial existence and further work is necessary to establish its quality and extent. The term exploration is sometimes applied to this extension of thediscovery work. See also:exploration. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: PROSPECTINGSynonyms: Exploration (Prospecting), Exploring for mineral deposits, Petroleum exploration. (additional references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Prospecting Bear (1941) | |
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 | Miners prospecting / Remington. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Science and research. Mineral prospecting. A ground comparator will reveal the presence of an ore body under the surface of the earth by measuring the total intensity and the plane of polarization of the secondary electro-magnetic field set up by the ore. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | In previous years I had often gone prospecting over some bare hillside, where a pitch pine wood had formerly stood, and got out the fat pine roots. |
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Business | In 1994, Shell Prospecting and Development Peru (SPDP) entered into a partnership with Mobil Exploration and Producing Peru, becoming the operator of the Camisea Project with a 57.5% participation, with the 42.5% balance for Mobil. (references) | |
Economic History | Namibia | During the pre-independence period, large areas of Namibia ,including offshore, were leased for oil prospecting. (references) |
Tanzania | In 1998, approximately 13 percent of Africa's total mineral prospecting budget was invested in Tanzania, even more than South Africa and Ghana. (references) | |
Japan | This produces a rapid increase in initial sales, but once its "share" of the market is tapped, the Japanese partner often has little interest in prospecting for new customers, unless the product has extraordinary technological or price advantages. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RHADOMANCER, n. One who uses a divining-rod in prospecting for precious metals in the pocket of a fool. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "PROSPECTING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 65.93% of the time. "PROSPECTING" is used about 91 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) | 65.93% | 60 | 43,597 |
| Noun (singular) | 15.38% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 9.89% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.79% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 91 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "PROSPECTING": prospecting by borings or trial pits. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "PROSPECTING": gold-prospecting, oil-prospecting, tin-prospecting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "PROSPECTING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تنقيب (drilling, excavations, mining prospect, quest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 勘察 (Prospected). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | prospektering (exploration, searching, survey), efterforskning (exploration, searching, survey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | prospectie (exploration, searching, survey), speurwerk (exploration, investigation, quest, research, search), opsporing (acquisition, exploration, searching, survey), onderzoek (examination, exploration, investigation, research, test), navorsing (investigation, research). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | puikotus (boring, probing, prospecting by borings or trial pits, sounding, test boring), radiometrinen menetelmä (radiometric prospecting method), koekairaus (boring, probing, prospecting by borings or trial pits, sounding, test boring), geologinen tutkimus (geologic survey, geological exploration, geological prospecting, geological survey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | prospection. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Prospektion (exploration, forward-looking study, searching, survey), Prospektieren (prospect), Untersuchung (assay, check, checkup, enquiry, examination, exploration, inquest, inquiry, inquisition, inspection, investigation, probe, probing, prosecution, research, scrutiny, sounding, study, survey, test, trial, verification), suchend (questing, searching, seeking), suche nach bodenschätzen, Schürfung (exploration, searching, survey), Schürfen (dig, graze, mine, prospect), Lagerstättenforschung (exploration, searching, survey), Forschung (investigation, research, sesearch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ραδιομετρική μέθοδος (radiometric prospecting method), γεωφυσική έρευνα (geophysical prospecting, geophysical survey, physical prospecting), βυθομέτρηση (sounding), μέθοδος γεωλογικής έρευνας (geological exploration, geological prospecting, geological survey), μέθοδος γεωλογικής αναζήτησης (geological exploration, geological prospecting, geological survey), ανιχνευτική γεώτρηση (boring, probing, prospecting by borings or trial pits, sounding, test boring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kutatási jog (prospecting right). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | prospezione geofisica (geophysical prospecting, geophysical work), prospezione (exploration, prospective study, searching, survey), ricerca mineraria (exploration, searching, survey), ricerca (demand, fieldwork, hunting, inquiry, investigation, project, pursuit, quest, research, search, study), esplorazione (exploration, scan, scouting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 試掘 (trial digging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しくつ (trial digging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 탐광. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ospectingpray prospecção (exploration, searching, survey), pesquisa (exploration, inquiry, quest, research, rummage, search). (various references) prospección (prospection). (various references) sondering (boring, observation, ozone observation, ozone sounding, probing, prospecting by borings or trial pits, sounding, test boring), radiometrisk metod (radiometric prospecting method), geologisk undersökning (geologic survey, geological exploration, geological prospecting, geological survey). (various references) razwedka (r) (reconnaissance party). (various references) пошуки (hunting, looking for, nose, prospect, prospection, search). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"PROSPECTING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: prospecti. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Expression | Similar | Related | Narrower | Broader |
| Discovery & exploration | Prospecting | |||
| Equipment | Printmaking equipment Projectors Prospecting equipment & supplies | |||
| Frontier & pioneer life | Prospecting | |||
| Gold rushes | Prospecting Prospecting equipment & supplies | |||
| Mineral exploration | Prospecting for minerals | |||
| Mineral reserves | Prospecting | |||
| Mines and mineral resources | Precious metals Prospecting | |||
| Mining | Prospecting Prospecting equipment & supplies | |||
| Mining equipment | Prospecting equipment & supplies | |||
| Petroleum engineering | Prospecting | |||
| Petroleum exploration | Prospecting for petroleum | |||
| Prospecting | Exploration (Prospecting) Exploring for mineral deposits Petroleum exploration | Discovery & exploration Frontier & pioneer life Gold rushes Mineral reserves Mines and mineral resources Mining Petroleum engineering Prospecting equipment & supplies Remote sensing | ||
| Prospecting equipment & supplies | Gold rushes Mining Mining equipment Prospecting | Equipment | ||
| Remote sensing | Prospecting | |||
Source: the U.S. Library of Congress and various crossword puzzle references. | ||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PROSPECTING" (pronounced prô'spe"kting) |
| 7 | -s p e" k t i ng | disrespecting, expecting, inspecting, respecting, suspecting, unsuspecting. |
| 5 | -e" k t i ng | affecting, collecting, connecting, correcting, defecting, deflecting, detecting, directing, disconnecting, dissecting, effecting, electing, erecting, infecting, injecting, intersecting, neglecting, objecting, perfecting, projecting, protecting, recollecting, reconnecting, redirecting, reelecting, reflecting, rejecting, resurrecting, selecting, subjecting. |
| 4 | -k t i ng | abducting, acting, addicting, afflicting, attracting, concocting, conducting, conflicting, constricting, constructing, contacting, contracting, contradicting, convicting, counteracting, deducting, depicting, destructing, detracting, distracting, districting, enacting, evicting, exacting, extracting, impacting, inflicting, instructing, interacting, interdicting, obstructing, overreacting, predicting, reacting, reconstructing, redacting, redistricting, restricting, retracting, subcontracting, subtracting, superconducting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abetting, aborting, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, accosting, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, activating, adapting, adjudicating, adjusting, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affiliating, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, annotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, arresting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, assisting, associating, attempting, attesting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, casting, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collaborating, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, composting, computing, concentrating, confiscating, confronting, congratulating, consenting, consisting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, consulting, consummating, contaminating, contemplating, contesting, contrasting, contributing, converting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, costing, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, defaulting, defeating, deflating, defrosting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, delisting, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, deteriorating, detonating, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, digesting, diluting, disappointing, disconcerting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disgusting, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrupting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distributing, diverting, divesting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, dusting, eating, editing, educating, elaborating, elating, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, encapsulating, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, everlasting, exacerbating, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, existing, exiting, exonerating, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, infuriating, ingesting, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, instigating, instituting, insulating, insulting, integrating, intercepting, interesting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, investing, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, laminating, lasting, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, listing, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, lusting, malting, mandating, manifesting, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, negotiating, nesting, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, obliterating, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, posting, pouting, precipitating, predominating, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, protesting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reactivating, readjusting, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, recasting, reciprocating, reciting, reconstituting, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redecorating, redistributing, reevaluating, refitting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resonating, resorting, restarting, restating, resting, resubmitting, resulting, resuscitating, retaliating, retesting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, rusting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subverting, suffocating, suggesting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, toasting, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-g-i-n-o-p-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: prosecting, stoppering. | |
-2 letters: coppering, corseting, escorting, estopping, inceptors, inspector, progestin, sceptring, sectoring, stropping. | |
-3 letters: cointers, conspire, coreigns, corniest, cosigner, cresting, croppies, cropping, entropic, escoting, genitors, gerontic, inceptor, incorpse, noticers, peptonic, perigons, pointers, porniest, propines, prospect, proteins, reposing, spongier, sporting, stepping, stopping, toppings, tropines. | |
-4 letters: cistern, cistron, citrons, cognise, coignes, coiners, cointer, congers, congest, copiers. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-g-i-n-o-p-p-r-s-t" | |
+4 letters: counterstepping, precipitinogens. | |
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