PURSING

Definition: PURSING

PURSING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Purse

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "PURSING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Crosswords: PURSING

Specialty definitions using "PURSING": draw string ♦ purse line, purse ring, purse rope, purse seiner, pursing ring, pursing wire ♦ SKIFF OPERATOR. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Five Important Things: A Motivational Novel: For Every Individual, Family, or Team Pursing a Dream (reference) (more book examples)
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	Menhaden fishing - pursing menhaden net with power blocks. Credit: Fisheries.		Mackerel seine-boat and crew pursing the seine Drawing by H. W. Elliott and Capt. J. W. Collins. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.
	Pursing the seine around a school of menhaden From sketch by Capt. B. F. Conklin. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.		Menhaden crew at work; pursing of the seine nearly completed From sketch by H. W. Elliott, 1878. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.
	Crew pursing the seine; the fish striking the net. From a sketch by Capt. B.F. Conklin. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Features of the disorder may include grimacing, tongue protrusion, lip smacking, puckering and pursing, and rapid eye blinking. (references)
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"PURSING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 80.95% of the time. "PURSING" is used about 21 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)	80.95%	17	85,106
Noun (singular)	19.05%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	21	N/A

Expressions using "PURSING": pursing ring ♦ pursing wire. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "PURSING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		snurpning. (various references)

Finnish		umpeen kurominen. (various references)

French		coulissage, boursage. (various references)

German		Schnüren (be too tight, lace, lace in, lace up, run in a straight line, tie up). (various references)

Greek		κλείσιμο (closing, closure, cloture, shutdown), στιγγάρισμα. (various references)

Italian		chiusura (clam, clamp, closing, closure, end, fastening, lock, shutdown, shutting, zip). (various references)

Pig Latin		ursingpay

Portuguese		fechar a retenida, fechar a rede. (various references)

Russian		оплачивать оплата. (various references)

Spanish		embolsamiento, cierre de la jareta. (various references)

Swedish		snörpning. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"PURSING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Persigny, Pruzine, pursang, pursine, purswing, purusing, Pusina. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-i-n-p-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: pignus, purins, spring, sprung, spuing, unrigs, unrips.
	-2 letters: girns, grins, grips, pings, pirns, prigs, pungs, purin, puris, rings, ruing, ruins, rungs, sirup, sprig, sprug, spurn, suing, unrig, unrip, using.
	-3 letters: gins, gips, girn, gnus, grin, grip, guns, nips, pigs, ping, pins, pirn, prig, pugs, pung, puns, puri, purs, rigs, ring, rins, rips, rugs.
	Words containing the letters "g-i-n-p-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: ingroups, perusing, purgings, pursuing, slurping, sprucing, spurning, spurring, spurting, supering, uprising, upspring, usurping.
	+2 letters: groupings, impugners, pagurians, pasturing, perfusing, posturing, presuming, purflings, purposing, repulsing, scrupling, splurging, sprouting, suspiring, unsparing, upraising, uprisings, uprousing, uprushing, upsoaring, upsprings, upstaring, upsurging.
	+3 letters: disrupting, grumpiness, inpourings, percussing, perigynous, persuading, pleasuring, posturings, pressuring, purchasing, purgations, repursuing, scuppering, sporangium, sputtering, sulphuring, supergiant, superlying, supporting, surpassing, surprising, surprizing, unsphering, upstarting, upstirring.
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PURSING

Definition: PURSING

PURSING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

Crosswords: PURSING

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