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Definition: SCOTCHING |
SCOTCHINGNoun1. Dressing stone with a pick or pointed instrument. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Scotch |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A method of dressing stones either with a pick or with pick-shapedchisels. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "SCOTCHING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "SCOTCHING" is used about 5 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% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "SCOTCHING": hop-scotching. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SCOTCHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | blokering (blanketing, block, blockade, blockage, blocking, cardiac block, choking, hang-up, heart block, heart-block, immobilisation, immobilization, interlock, mute, obscuration, putting on the skid, skidding, spiking, stopping). (various references) | |
Dutch | vastzetting, vastlegging (immobilisation, immobilization, interlocking, locking up). (various references) | |
French | calage, blocage. (various references) | |
German | Festlegen (appoint, arrange, determine, determines, establish, fix, fixed, immobilize, lay down, schedule, set, settle, state, stipulate, tie, to state), Blockieren (block, block up, blockade, dam, halt, inhibit, jam, lock, obstruct, to blockade, to inhibit). (various references) | |
Greek | σφήνωση (keying, wedging). (various references) | |
Italian | bloccaggio (blockage, deadlock), arresto (apprehension, arrest, capture, check, deadlock, detention, halt, stand, standstill, stop, stoppage). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | otchingscay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | encravamento (jamming). (various references) | |
Russian | обрывать (scotched, scotches, tear off). (various references) | |
Spanish | calado (draught, fretwork, importance), bloqueado (blocked), blocado. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "SCOTCHING": hopscotching. (additional references) | |
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"SCOTCHING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cotchin, skitching. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-g-h-i-n-o-s-t" | |
-2 letters: chitons, cochins, coshing, costing, gnocchi, gnostic, gothics, hosting. | |
-3 letters: chicos, chinos, chints, chiton, cochin, coigns, conchs, conics, cosign, coting, gothic, hosing, incogs, ingots, nights, scotch, snitch, stingo, things, thongs, tigons, tocsin, tonics, tonish. | |
-4 letters: chico, chics, chino, chins, chits, cinch, cions, cisco, coign, coins, conch, conic, ghost, hints, hoist, hongs, icons, incog, ingot. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-g-h-i-n-o-s-t" | |
+2 letters: scrootching. | |
+3 letters: conchologist, hopscotching. | |
+4 letters: cockfightings, conchologists, crosshatching, lockstitching, psychogenetic. | |
+5 letters: shuttlecocking. | |
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