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Definition: SCREENINGS |
SCREENINGSNoun plural1. The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc. |
Date "SCREENINGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Building & Civil Engineering | A reject from screening, either oversize or undersize. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | The finally discarded reject from the screen room. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Fine coal that will pass through the smallest mesh screen normally loaded for commercial sale for industrial use. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Synonyms by domain: chippings (transportation), crusher screenings (mining), fine stone chippings (transportation), gritting material, middlings (food & agriculture), overs (building & civil engineering, transportation), oversize, tailings (industry). |
Crosswords: SCREENINGS |
| Specialty definitions using "SCREENINGS": anthracite duff ♦ bar rack ♦ CLEAN-RICE GRADER AND REEL TENDER, coke breeze, conference service coordinator ♦ hoggin ♦ mine dust ♦ rotary screen, rotary sieve, rotating screen ♦ screenings crushing, SPACE SCHEDULER. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Private Screenings (1996) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In 1988 a group of experts recommended that annual Pap smears and pelvic examinations begin at onset of sexual activity or age 18. After three consecutive normal examinations, the interval between screenings may increase at the discretion of the physician and patient. (references) | |
Business | Presently, 25 hospitals have been tasked with offering free and anonymous screenings. (references) | |
Since 1985, screenings for high-risk groups, general screenings of blood for transfusion and blood products, and screenings of military draftees, prison inmates, and alien laborers have been conducted. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Bangladesh | However, the Board banned the screenings of several imported English-language movies for their pornographic content. (references) |
Czech Republic | The groups alleged that the selective screenings by British officials at Prague's Ruzyne airport restrict the Roma's right to travel. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "SCREENINGS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SCREENINGS" is used about 60 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 |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 60 | 43,597 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "SCREENINGS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | savurrë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отсевки (riprap, siftings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 掩护 (screening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | stroemel (middlings), småskærver (chippings, fine stone chippings, gritting material), sigtestof (chippings), ristestoffer (chippings), ristestoff, rejekt (reject, tailings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | steengruis (chippings, concrement, concretion, fine stone chippings, gravel, grit, gritting material), zeefrest (materials, mesh plus, overs, oversize, rejects, retained fraction), zeef rest, verontreinigingen (companion elements, impurities, tailings), gruis (gravel, grit, powder, urinary gravel), grind (grave, gravel, grit, low water, middlings, minimum flow, shingle), fijne steenslag (chippings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sirote (chippings, fine stone chippings, gritting material), seulottu materiaali, välppeet, välppäjätteet, rehujauho (middlings), lajittamopoiste (tailings), hieno sepeli (chippings, fine stone chippings, gritting material), hiekoitusaine (chippings, fine stone chippings, gritting material). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | surclasse, produits de criblage (crusher screenings), criblure de pierres, criblures de pieres, criblures de pierre, déchets de criblage (crusher screenings), grenaille (scrap), criblés, petit blé, recoupe, refus, refus d'épuration, refus de criblage, remoulage, retenue de grilles, matériaux criblés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Steinsplitt (gesiebt) (chippings, fine stone chippings, gritting material), Splitt (chippings, crushed stone, fine stone chippings, grit, gritting material, macadam, stone chipping), Sortierungsabfälle (tailings), Siebrueckstand (mesh plus, overs), Siebrest, Rechengut, Nachmehl (middlings), Mittelmehl (middlings), gesiebtes Gestein, Bollmehl (middlings), Abgesiebte, Abdecksplitt (chippings, fine stone chippings, gritting material). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αποκοσκινίδια (tailings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rostalerakódás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | solidi grossolani trattenuti dalle griglie, setacciatura di pietre, scarti di epurazione (tailings), tritello di frumento (middlings), residuo di vagliatura, materiale setacciato. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 검열 (censoring, Censorship, Inspecting, screening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eeningsscray rejeitos de depuração (tailings), refugo de joeiramento, refugo de depuração (tailings), refugo de crivagem, miuçalha (chippings, fine stone chippings, gritting material), meio-cascalho (chippings), material peneirado, gravilha (chippings, fine stone chippings, gritting material), farelo (bran, breaks, middlings, offal, piece of nib), brita miúda (chippings). (various references) высевки (bran, chaff). (various references) retención de las parrillas, residuos de cribado, rechazos de depuración (tailings), rechazos (reject, tailings), material cribado, harinilla (middlings), gravilla (blinding, chippings, fine gravel, gravel, grit, pea gravel). (various references) sortering av krossat berg (chippings), silerirejekt (tailings), siktat stenmaterial, rens, klimjöl (middlings), fin sortering (chippings, fine stone chippings, gritting material), eftermjöl (middlings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "SCREENINGS": prescreenings. (additional references) | |
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"SCREENINGS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: screeding, skroelings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SCREENINGS" (pronounced skrē"ningz) |
| 5 | -ē" n i ng z | leanings, meanings. |
| 4 | -n i ng z | beginnings, burnings, drownings, earnings, evenings, fastenings, happenings, innings, lightnings, linings, mornings, openings, poisonings, runnings, seasonings, underpinnings, warnings, winnings, yearnings. |
| 3 | -i ng z | bearings, beatings, beheadings, beings, belongings, Billings, blessings, boardings, bombings, bookings, borrowings, briefings, buildings, bushings, carjackings, carvings, casings, castings, ceilings, clippings, closings, coatings, comings, couplings, coverings, cowlings, cravings, crossings, cuttings, darlings, dealings, doings, drawings, dressings, droppings, ducklings, dumplings, dwellings, earrings, earthlings, endings, engravings, etchings, everlastings, facings, failings, feedings, feelings, fightings, filings, fillings, financings, findings, firings, fittings, fixings, flavorings, followings, forgings, frostings, furnishings, gatherings, goings, greetings, groupings, hangings, headings, hearings, helpings, herrings, hijackings, holdings, housings, hustings, killings, landholdings, landings, lashings, leavings, leggings, lemmings, listings, livings, loadings, lodgings, longings, lynchings, mailings, makings, marketings, markings, meetings, misgivings, misunderstandings, moldings, moorings, mouldings, muggings, musings, nestlings, nothings, offerings, outings, paintings, pickings, pilings, plantings, pleadings, postings, posturings, printings, proceedings, publishings, puddings, railings, rankings, ratings, readings, recordings, rehearings, ridings, riggings, Rollings, rulings, rumblings, samplings, saplings, savings, sayings, schillings, scrapings, seatings, seedlings, servings, settings, shadings, shavings, shillings, shipbuildings, shootings, shortcomings, showings, siblings, sightings, skillings, slayings, soundings, spellings, stabbings, standings, stockings, sufferings, surroundings, tailings, takings, teachings, tidings, toppings, trappings, trimmings, underlings, understandings, undertakings, uprisings, vikings, wanderings, weddings, whitings, workings, writings, wrongdoings, yearlings. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-g-i-n-n-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: recessing, screening, secerning. | |
-2 letters: generics, greisens, incenses, niceness, sneering. | |
-3 letters: censers, censing, cerises, cessing, cringes, engines, ensigns, generic, genesis, ginners, greisen, incense, ingress, resigns, screens, secerns, seeings, seiners, sensing, sereins, serines, signees, signers, sincere, singers, sinners. | |
-4 letters: censer, censes, cering, cerise, cringe, crises, ecesis, egises, egress, engine, ensign, genies, genres, ginner, gneiss, greens, inners, nereis, nieces, recess, reigns, renigs, renins, resign, resins, rinses, scenes, screen, screes, scries, secern, seeing, seiner, seines, seiser, serein, serges, series, serine, sering, serins, sieges, signee, signer, singer, singes, sinner, sirees, sirens, sneers. | |
-5 letters: cense, ceres, cines, cires, cress, cries, egers, ernes, erses, genes, genic, genie, genre, girns, green, grees, grins, inner, nenes, nicer, niece, nines, reges, reign, reins, renig, renin, resin, rices, rings, rinse, risen, rises, scene, scree, seers, segni, seine, seise, sengi, sense, seres, serge, serin, sices, siege, signs, since, sines, singe, sings, siree, siren, sires, sneer. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-g-i-n-n-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: genericness, insurgences. | |
+2 letters: insurgencies, stringencies, sunscreening. | |
+3 letters: astringencies, genericnesses, greensickness, prescreenings. | |
+4 letters: carcinogeneses, carcinogenesis, intransigences, presentencings. | |
+5 letters: greensicknesses, intransigeances. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 43 52 45 45 4E 49 4E 47 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. .-. . . -. .. -. --. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01000011 01010010 01000101 01000101 01001110 01001001 01001110 01000111 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S C R E E N I N G S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0043 0052 0045 0045 004E 0049 004E 0047 0053 |
| 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)53375239394843484153 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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