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Definition: SLUNG |
SLUNG1. Imp. & p. p. of Sling. Imperative1. Of Sling |
Date "SLUNG" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Missile, bolt, projectile, shot, ball; grape; grape shot, canister shot, bar shot, cannon shot, langrel shot, langrage shot, round shot, chain shot; balista, ballista, slung shot, trebucbet, trebucket; bullet, slug, stone, brickbat, grenade, shell, bomb, carcass, rocket; congreve, congreve rocket; shrapnel, mitraille; levin bolt, levin brand; thunderbolt. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SLUNG |
| English words defined with "SLUNG": derrick ♦ lateen sail ♦ Sling cart. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SLUNG": ballistic separation ♦ cable-tower operator ♦ density separation ♦ guyline operator ♦ logging arch, long piggyback conveyor ♦ mine fire truck ♦ Rope-dancers ♦ slackline operator ♦ tower-dragline operator, TOWER-EXCAVATOR OPERATOR. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | NEKTON GAMMA slung to the side of the support ship. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "SLUNG" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 53.78% of the time. "SLUNG" is used about 119 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 (past tense) | 53.78% | 64 | 42,009 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 43.7% | 52 | 47,145 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.52% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 119 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "SLUNG": be slung from ♦ be slung out ♦ slung shot. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "SLUNG": slung-weights. | |
Ending with "SLUNG": low-slung. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
slung | 4 |
boy low picture shorts slung | 3 |
metal slung | 2 |
jean low slung | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SLUNG"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 投掷 (Darted, Darting, Pelted, Pelting, slinging, Threw, throw, Throwing, thrown, thrown-away, Throw-off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | forudanhugget gods (Pre slung goods). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پرتاب شده . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | marchandises pré-élinguées (Pre slung goods), charge a l'elingue (slung load). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | geschlungen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αόρ. του sling. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vállára vet (to sling), parittyából kilő (to sling), lendületes járással megy (to sling), hajít (bung, cast, dart, drop, fling, launch, sling, throw, to bung, to cast, to dart, to launch, to pitch, to shy, to sling, toss), felköt (gird, tie up, to gird, to halter, to sling, to string up, to tie up, to tress), ellódít (to sling), elhajít (diffract, fling out, hurl out, to reject, to sling, to throw clear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 振り分け荷物 (pair of bundles slung over a shoulder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふりわけにもつ (pair of bundles slung over a shoulder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 던지" (Flung, Plunged, thrown, Tossed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ungslay trecut şi participiu trecut de la sling. (various references) бросать (cast, cast off, на корме, dart, dash, drop, dump, fling, give over, give up, heave, hurl, jilt, launch, pitched, plant, project, put, quit, relinquish, shoot, slam down, slinging, slings, threw, throw, throw over, thrown, toss). (various references) pret y pp de sling. (various references) กริยาช่องที่ 2 และ 3 ของ sling. (various references) sapanın ucuna bağlı ağırlık (slung shot), sallanmak (be slung from, bear away, dawdle, dilly dally, dodder, flap, flirt, hang about, hang around, hang down, hang on, hover, keep oneself close, loiter, lurch, oscillate, quake, rock, shake, sway, swing, take a swing, teeter, toss, vibrate, waggle, wave, waver, wobble), asılı durmak (be slung from, hang, hang on, latch on to, poise). (various references) dây qu ng (sling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SLUNG": slungshot, slungshots. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "SLUNG": underslung, unslung. (additional references) | |
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"SLUNG" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: salong, selung, shlung, Shung, slanbg, slangg, slingo, slong, sluagh, slugg, slune, slungs, slunt, slurg, soung, splunge, spung, sunng. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SLUNG" (pronounced slu"ng) |
| 3 | -l u" ng | clung, flung, lung. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lungs. | |
| Words within the letters "g-l-n-s-u" | |
-1 letter: gnus, guls, guns, lugs, lung, slug, snug, sung. | |
-2 letters: gnu, gul, gun, lug, nus, sun, uns. | |
-3 letters: nu, un, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-l-n-s-u" | |
+1 letter: gluons, gunsel, lunges, lungis, sluing, snugly. | |
+2 letters: angelus, bluings, blunges, bungles, engluts, engulfs, fungals, glucans, glutens, guldens, gunless, gunnels, gunsels, ingulfs, jungles, lagunas, lagunes, langues, langurs, lanugos, lounges, lousing, lungans, lungees, lungers, lungyis, lushing, lusting, lutings, nilgaus, plunges, pulings, pulsing, pungles, rulings, snuggle, songful, sulking, sunglow, unclogs, unglues, unplugs, unsling, unslung. | |
+3 letters: angulose, angulous, avulsing, blousing, blowguns, blueings, blungers, blushing, bunglers, bustling, curlings, eugenols, euglenas, flashgun, flushing, flutings, foulings, furlongs, gallnuts, glumness, glunches, gluttons, goldurns, granules, gruntles, gunlocks, gunplays, gunwales, guylines, hurlings, hustling, indulges, justling, languets, languish, languors, legumins, ligneous, linguals, linguist, longspur, loungers, lungfish, lungfuls, lustring, muscling, musingly, nilghaus, nursling, nutgalls, nylghaus, plungers, quisling, rungless, rustling, saluting, sculking, sculling, sculping, shauling, shogunal, singular, skulking, slubbing, sluffing, slugging, sluicing, slumming, slumping, slurping, slurring, slushing, snuggled, snuggles, suckling, sullying, sunglass, sunglows, sunlight, suppling, tousling, tussling, ugliness, ungloves, unslings, upflings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 4C 55 4E 47 |
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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 01010101 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S L U N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004C 0055 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)5346554841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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