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Definition: REDRAWING |
REDRAWINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Redraw |
Date "REDRAWING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
| Synonyms by domain: cross wound redrawing and draw twisting package (industry, meteorology & standards), redrawing of the world's political map (politics & international affaires). |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Tanzania | Government steps to improve that climate include redrawing tax codes, floating the exchange rate, licensing foreign banks, and creating an investment promotion center to cut red tape. (references) |
Political Rights | Chad | In January 2000, the Constitutional Court rejected a decree redrawing provincial borders and separately rejected the bill on decentralization. (references) |
Jordan | The election law adopted in July increased the number of electoral districts by redrawing district boundaries and redistributed seats among districts. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "REDRAWING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 53.33% of the time. "REDRAWING" 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) | 53.33% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (singular) | 43.33% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "REDRAWING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 重" (Redraw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | omformning af det politiske verdenskort (redrawing of the world's political map). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | opnieuw schudden van de politieke kaarten (redrawing of the world's political map), kaart van de wereld staatkundig opnieuw tekenen (redrawing of the world's political map). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | remodelage de la carte politique du monde (redrawing of the world's political map). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zurückzeichnend, neu entwerfend (redesigning, redrafting, restyling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | rimodellamento della carta politica del mondo (redrawing of the world's political map). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | edrawingray redefinição do mape político mundial (redrawing of the world's political map). (various references) перерисовывать перерисовка. (various references) reelaboración del mapa político del mundo (redrawing of the world's political map). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "REDRAWING": wiredrawing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "REDRAWING" (pronounced rēdrô"ing) |
| 5 | -d r ô" i ng | drawing, withdrawing. |
| 3 | -ô" i ng | clawing, gnawing, hawing, lawing, sawing, thawing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: rewarding. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-n-r-r-w" | |
-2 letters: angrier, deraign, drainer, drawing, earring, gnarred, gradine, grained, grainer, grander, grinder, randier, rangier, reading, rearing, redrawn, redwing, regrind, warding, warring, wearing, windage, wringed, wringer. | |
-3 letters: arider, aweing, danger, daring, darner, dawing, denari, dewing, dinger, drawer, earing, earwig, engird, errand, erring, gained, gainer, gander, garden, garner, garred, girder, girned, gnawed, gnawer, grader, gradin, inward, raider, rained, ranged, ranger, raring, reagin, reding, redraw, regain, regard, regina, reward, rewind, ringed, ringer, wading, waired, wander, wanier, warden, warder, warier, waring, warned, warner, warred, warren, winder, winged, winger. | |
-4 letters: aider, aired, airer, anger, awing, awned, darer, dawen, deair, deign, denar, dewan, dewar, dinar, diner, dinge, direr, dirge, diwan, drain, drawn, drear, drier, dwine, garni, gnarr, grade, grain, grand, gride, grind, irade, nadir, raged, range, ranid, rared, rawer, rawin, redan, redia, regna, reign, renig, reran, rerig, rewan, rewin, rider, ridge, wader, waged, wager, waned, wared, weird, widen, wider, wigan, wined, wired, wirer, wirra, wrang, wried, wrier, wring. | |
-5 letters: aged, ager, agin, aide, airn, anew, arid, awed, dang, dare, darn, dawn, dean, dear, deni, dine, ding, dire, drag, draw, dreg, drew, earn, egad, gadi, gaed, gaen, gain, gane, gear, gied, gien, gird, girn, gnar, gnaw, grad, gran, grew, grid, grin, idea, ired, nard, near, nerd, nide, rage, ragi, raid, rain, rand, rang, rani, rare, read, rear, rein, rend, ride, rind, ring, wade, wadi, wage, wain, wair, wand, wane, ward, ware, warn, wean, wear, weir, wend, wide, wind, wine, wing, wire, wren. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-i-n-r-r-w" | |
+2 letters: handwringer, overdrawing, rewardingly, unrewarding, wiredrawing. | |
+3 letters: handwringers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 44 52 41 57 49 4E 47 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -.. .-. .- .--. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000101 01000100 01010010 01000001 01010111 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E D R A W I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 0044 0052 0041 0057 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)523938523557434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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