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Definition: REPOSING |
REPOSINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Repose |
Date "REPOSING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Repose | Adjective: reposing; Verb: relaxed; Verb: unstrained. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: REPOSING |
| English words defined with "REPOSING": recline, Reposal, repose. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "REPOSING": Ottoman. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Nicaragua - fillibusters [sic] reposing after the battle in their quarters at the convent.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Toreros reposing between the bulls / Lake Price.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning and the noontide night. |
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| "REPOSING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "REPOSING" is used about 15 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% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
reposing | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "REPOSING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 静卧 (Reposed). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | ruhend (dormant, idle, reclining, recumbent, resting, stationary). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 쉼 (PAUSE). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eposingray odihnitor (appeasing, composing, grateful, mild, recreating, relaxing, reposeful, restful, resting, soothing). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"REPOSING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: preposing, rebasing, reponing, Reposant, Rogosina, Rupasena. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: perigons, spongier. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-n-o-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: epigons, eringos, ignores, orpines, perigon, pigeons, pingers, pingoes, pirogen, porgies, presong, prosing, regions, serpigo, signore, sponger, sporing, springe. | |
-2 letters: epigon, eringo, genips, genros, gipons, girons, goners, gripes, grison, groins, gropes, ignore, irones, nosier, opines, orgies, orpine, orpins, pengos, person, pigeon, pinger, pingos, pogies, poiser, ponies, poring, posing, prions, prison, prongs, region, reigns. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-n-o-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: peignoirs, progenies, progestin. | |
+2 letters: angiosperm, fingerpost, oppressing, perigynous, porringers, prescoring, preshowing, presoaking, presorting, processing, professing, progestins, prosecting, prospering, protesting, reexposing, reimposing, reopenings, reopposing, repositing, responding, respotting, saprogenic, sporogenic, stoppering. | |
+3 letters: angiosperms, compressing, fingerposts, hotpressing, interposing, necropsying, operagoings, outpressing, overpassing, oversupping, personating, prefocusing, proceedings, progenitors, progressing, progression, prophesying, prosecuting, proselyting, prospecting, recomposing, redisposing, repolishing, resprouting, semaphoring, serpiginous, spermagonia, sporogonies, springhouse, superposing, temporising, topdressing, trypsinogen. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 50 4F 53 49 4E 47 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .--. --- ... .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000101 01010000 01001111 01010011 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E P O S I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 0050 004F 0053 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)5239504953434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Images: Slideshow 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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