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Definition: SCUTCHING |
SCUTCHINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Scutch |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | The woody part of flax is knocked out by hand or mechanically, leaving the flax fibres. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | This process is necessary to separate textile fibres from woody ones. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A mechanical or hand process of separating bast fibers from the woody part of the stems after retting. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SCUTCHING |
| English words defined with "SCUTCHING": Scutch, Scutcher. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SCUTCHING": set of pins. (references) |
| "SCUTCHING" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "SCUTCHING" is used about 7 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 (singular) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "SCUTCHING": scutching machine. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "SCUTCHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | æ‰"棉花 (Scutched). (various references) | |
Danish | skaetning (swingling), brækning (breaking, crushing, vomiting). (various references) | |
Dutch | zwingelen (swingling). (various references) | |
French | teillage à la main, teillage, macquage, décortication, broyage (scrap grinding, scrap reduction), brisage, écorçage, écanguage, écangage. (various references) | |
German | Schwingen (brandish, fling, flourish, linger, oscillate, pulsate, sway, swing, swung, to oscillate, vibrate, wave, wave about, whisk, wield), Brechen (be sick, betray, break, bring up, crack, crack up, cut, fracture, heave up, infringe, overcome, pluck, quarry, reflect, refract, rive, rupture, spew, throw up, to crack, violate, vomit). (various references) | |
Greek | βατοποίηση (breaking), άνοιγμα (aperture, gap, hatch, leak, opening, orifice, sinus). (various references) | |
Italian | stigliatura (swingling), gramolatura (breaking, cramming, crushing, working), battitura (beating, breaking, driving, hammering, hulling, stippling, thrashing, threshing). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | utchingscay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | trituração (mastication, pulverization), maçagem (breaking), espadelagem (swingling), assedagem (dressing, swingling). (various references) | |
Spanish | triturar (crush, pulverize, scrunch, triturate), machacar (carry on, crush, grind, harp on, natter, peg away, pound, pound away, pulverize, slash, stomp), espadilladura (breaking), espadar (swingle), espadado (swingling), agramadura (breaking), agramado (breaking). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-g-h-i-n-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: chuting, shuting, tushing, unsight. | |
-3 letters: chints, cutins, nights, schuit, scutch, snitch, things, tunics, unchic. | |
-4 letters: chics, chins, chits, chugs, cinch, cuing, cuish, cutch, cutin, cutis, hints, hunts, ictus, incus, nighs, night, shunt, sight, stich, sting, stung, suing, suint, thing, thins, thugs, tings, tungs, tunic, units, using. | |
-5 letters: chic, chin, chis, chit, chug, cigs, cist. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-g-h-i-n-s-t-u" | |
+5 letters: shuttlecocking. | |
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