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Definition: SLEETING |
SLEETINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Sleet |
Date "SLEETING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
| "SLEETING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "SLEETING" 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "SLEETING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | graupelnd. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | grandina (it is sleeting). (various references) | ||||||||||
Mohawk | yowisarhon (it is sleeting). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eetingslay сыпать дождем со снегом (sleeted, sleets). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"SLEETING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: leeting, Seletun, sylheti. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gentiles, steeling. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-l-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: elegist, elegits, gentile, gentles, glisten, lisente, seeling, setline, singlet, tensile, tingles. | |
-2 letters: elegit, elints, elites, enisle, enlist, ensile, genets, genies, gentes, gentil, gentle, gleets, glints, ingest, ingles, inlets, legist, legits, lieges, listee, listen, nestle, seeing, senile, signee, signet, silent, single, teeing, tinges, tingle, tinsel. | |
-3 letters: egest, elint, elite, geest, gelts, genes, genet, genie. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-l-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: anglesite, galenites, gelatines, glistened, selecting, streeling, teaseling. | |
+2 letters: anglesites, clientages, eglantines, enlightens, evangelist, gelignites, generalist, genteelism, gentilesse, ingestible, leistering, lengthiest, lengthwise, lentigines, letterings, lighteners, metheglins, resettling, resmelting, retellings, sheltering, singletree, skeltering, sweltering, teaselling, telegonies, televising, unsteeling. | |
+3 letters: delegations, delustering, deselecting, detasseling, disentangle, ethnologies, evangelists, everlasting, gelatinizes, genealogist, generalists, genialities, genteelisms, gentilesses, gentilities, gillnetters, lengthiness, lightnesses, longevities, outsleeping, pedestaling, pelletising, reenlisting, regimentals, relegations, sentineling, singletrees, steelmaking, swingletree, telecasting, telescoping. | |
| 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 4C 45 45 54 49 4E 47 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .-.. . . - .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001100 01000101 01000101 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S L E E T I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004C 0045 0045 0054 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)5346393954434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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