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SHYING

Definition: SHYING

SHYING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Shy

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SHYING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)


Modern Usage: SHYING

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Shying away (Take On Me; performing artist: A-ha)

You're shying away (Take On Me; performing artist: A-ha)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: SHYING

DomainTitle

Books

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Non-Fiction Usage: SHYING

SubjectTopicQuote

Trade

India

However, the Indian capital markets, particularly the primary market, continue to be depressed with small investors generally shying away. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: SHYING

"SHYING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SHYING" is used about 27 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)100%2766,962

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: SHYING

Language Translations for "SHYING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

胆怯 (Shied, shyness). (various references)

   

German

  

abscheuend. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

'걸음침. (various references)

   

Manx

  

jonseragh (buck, jolt, shy, wince, wincing). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

yingshay

   

Russian 

  

бросать бросок бросающий. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: SHYING

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Calocoris fulvomaculatus. (various references)

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Misspellings: SHYING

Misspellings

"SHYING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: schwing, Schwinge, Shiongo, shring, skying, syin. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "SHYING"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "SHYING" (pronounced shī"ing)
3-ī" i ngapplying, belying, buying, complying, crying, decrying, defying, denying, drying, dyeing, dying, eyeing, flying, frying, implying, indemnifying, lying, misapplying, overflying, overlying, plying, prying, relying, replying, retrying, semidrying, sighing, spying, supplying, tieing, trying, tying, underlying, undying, vying.

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Anagrams: SHYING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-h-i-n-s-y"

-1 letter: hying, nighs, shiny.

-2 letters: ghis, gins, hins, hisn, nigh, shin, sigh, sign, sing, sinh, yins.

-3 letters: ghi, gin, hin, his, ins, shy, sin, syn, yin.

-4 letters: hi, in, is, sh, si.

 Words containing the letters "g-h-i-n-s-y"
 

+1 letter: hayings, shingly.

 

+2 letters: hygienes, nylghais, psyching, scything, synching, youngish.

 

+3 letters: anythings, dashingly, gushingly, hygienics, hygienist, kyboshing, lynchings, sashaying, shammying, shamoying, shimmying, shinnying, stithying, syphering, syphoning, unsightly, yachtings.

 

+4 letters: blushingly, crashingly, crushingly, gynarchies, hologynies, hygienists, hypogynies, phrensying, physicking, playthings, scathingly, schizogony, shinneying, shockingly, shylocking, slashingly, smashingly, soothingly, swishingly.

 

+5 letters: hairstyling, holystoning, honeyguides, hymnologies, mythmakings, phantasying, pharyngitis, phylogenies, physiognomy, prophesying, psychogenic, ravishingly, scorchingly, searchingly, slightingly, soothsaying, superhyping, trichogynes, vanishingly, yesternight.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SHYING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 48 59 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    ....    -.--.    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001000 01011001 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#72 &#89 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0048 0059 0049 004E 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

534259434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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