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Definition: SMEARING |
SMEARINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Smear |
Date "SMEARING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | The failure of the output current to follow variations of the light input instantaneously. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | A television picture defect in which objects appear to be extended horizontally beyond their normal boundaries in a blurred or smeared manner. Source: European Union. (references) |
Publishing & Graphic Arts | The spreading of ink over areas of the plate and/or substrate where it is not wanted. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SMEARING |
| English words defined with "SMEARING": daub, Delinition ♦ Illinition, Illutation, Inceration ♦ smear. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SMEARING": FLEXOGRAPHIC-PRESS OPERATOR ♦ Nujol. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You people are all alike, You march in here, try and touch the local things, I suppose next you'll be spraying me with one of those cans of paint, Smearing poor Tubbs here with excrement (The League of Gentlemen; writing credit: Jeremy Dyson; Mark Gatiss) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "SMEARING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "SMEARING" is used about 42 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) | 85.71% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Noun (singular) | 11.9% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.38% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 42 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "SMEARING": re-smearing. | |
| 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 |
feces smearing | 7 |
fecal smearing | 5 |
smearing | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SMEARING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | تلويث (contamination, impurity, infection, pollution), تلطيخ (discolor, discolour, maculation, staining), تشويه السمعة (calumny, defalcation, denigration, discredit, malediction, vilification). (various references) | |
Chinese | 抹上 (smeared). (various references) | |
Danish | stoning, træghed (inactivity, inertia, lag), efterslæb (back pay, backwage payment, lag, retroactive pay, streaking). (various references) | |
Dutch | smeren (anoint, smear, spread), vegen (clean, cleanse, delete, make clean, purge, sweep, wipe, wipe off), achterblijven (remain). (various references) | |
Finnish | viive (break in the work, dead time, delay, delay time, down time, dwell, lag, lay time, time of travel, time stood-off, transmission delay, waiting time), hitaus (inertia, sloth, slowness, sluggishness). (various references) | |
French | souillement, salissure (smear), traînage court, persistance, maculation, enduissant, diffamation, bavure (smear, smudge). (various references) | |
German | schmierend (daubing, greasing, lubricating, smeary), anschmierend. (various references) | |
Greek | κηλίδωση (blackening, catch-up, fish eye, offset, scab, staining), μουτζούρωμα (offsetting, set off), επάλειψη (coat, dab). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מריח" (inunction, shearing, sloppy work, spreading), "שמצ" (aspersion, defamation, disgracing, mudslinging, slander, slur, smear, vilification). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bepiszkolás. (various references) | |
Indonesian | pelumuran (pollution, staining). (various references) | |
Italian | persistenza (continuation, persistence). (various references) | |
Korean | "름. (various references) | |
Manx | claaghey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | earingsmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | salpicamento indevido de tinta, persistência (endurance, insistence, obstinacy, tenacity). (various references) | |
Russian | размазывать размазывание (smudging). (various references) | |
Spanish | persistencia (continuance, persistence), manchado por esparcido de la tinta, arrastre corto. (various references) | |
Swedish | eftersläpning (delay, lag), avsmetning, avsättning (appropriation, circulation, dethronement, ejection, outlet, removal, sale). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "SMEARING": besmearing. (additional references) | |
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"SMEARING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mearig, Osmarino, smarling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SMEARING" (pronounced smi"ring) |
| 5 | -m i" r i ng | premiering. |
| 4 | -i" r i ng | appearing, adhering, bioengineering, cheering, clearing, disappearing, domineering, earring, electioneering, engineering, fearing, gearing, hearing, interfering, nearing, overhearing, pioneering, profiteering, racketeering, rearing, reengineering, rehearing, searing, shearing, sneering, Spearing, steering, veering, volunteering. |
| 3 | -r i ng | acquiring, admiring, adoring, airing, alluring, aspiring, assuring, baring, barring, bearing, blaring, boring, caring, chairing, charring, childbearing, comparing, conspiring, curing, daring, declaring, deploring, despairing, during, endearing, enduring, ensuring, expiring, exploring, firing, flaring, flooring, glaring, Goring, haring, herring, hiring, ignoring, impairing, imploring, inspiring, insuring, jarring, jeering, luring, marring, maturing, ministering, mooring, obscuring, outpouring, overbearing, overpowering, pairing, paring, peering, perspiring, poring, pouring, preparing, procuring, quiring, reassuring, rehiring, repairing, restoring, retiring, roaring, scaring, scarring, scoring, securing, sharing, shoring, snaring, snoring, soaring, sparing, sparring, squaring, staring, starring, stevedoring, storing, swearing, tarring, tearing, tiring, touring, uncaring, underscoring, uninspiring, unsparing, Waring, warring, wearing, wiring. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-m-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: armings, earings, engrams, enigmas, erasing, gainers, gamines, germans, germina, gisarme, imagers, mangers, mangier, margins, marines, mirages, reagins, reaming, regains, reginas, remains, seaming, searing, seminar, seringa. | |
-2 letters: ageism, aimers, airmen, amines, angers, animes, arisen, armies, arming, arsine, earing, easing, engram, enigma, gainer, gamers, gamier, gamine, gamins, gasmen, german, grains, grimes, imager, images, inarms. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-m-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: emigrants, geraniums, imaginers, maligners, malingers, mastering, measuring, midranges, migraines, screaming, streaming. | |
+2 letters: agrimonies, agronomies, angiosperm, besmearing, beswarming, centigrams, germaniums, germanizes, germinates, gormandise, gramineous, grangerism, greenmails, kingmakers, magnifiers, margarines, marginates, marketings, menageries, mishearing, misreading, morganites, nightmares, omniranges, reassuming, reimagines, resampling, restamping, ringmaster, rosemaling, scampering, smaragdine, smartening, smattering, stammering, steamering, streamings. | |
+3 letters: abridgments, admeasuring, angiosperms, campaigners, charmingest, cinemagoers, dressmaking, emigrations, ergotamines, gangsterism, garnishment, gormandised, gormandises, gormandizes, gourmandise, grangerisms, ignoramuses, imaginaries, impregnants, impregnates, magnetizers, malingerers, managership, marbleising, margravines, martingales, misaltering, misaverring, miscreating, mislearning, misrelating, mistreating, prestamping, regimentals, regionalism, remastering, remeasuring, ringmasters, rosemalings, screamingly, semaphoring, smatterings, spermagonia, trigeminals. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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