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Definition: Snoring |
SnoringAdjective1. Breathing during sleep with harsh noises caused by vibration of the uvula or soft palate; "the snoring sleeper". Noun1. The act of snoring or producing a snoring sound. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "snoring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Rough, noisy breathing during sleep, due to vibration of the uvula and soft palate. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The cause of snoring is some kind of blockage in the breathing passage. Those blockages can be of many kinds--here are just a few:
When the airflow in the breathing passage becomes irregular (because of the blockage) then the soft palate starts flapping. This flapping of the soft palate makes the irritating snoring sound.
Snoring cures almost all revolve around clearing the blockage in the breathing passage. This is the reason snorers are advised to lose weight (to stop fat from pressing on the throat), stop smoking (smoking weakens and clogs the throat), and sleeping on one's side (to prevent the tongue from blocking the throat). But for many snorers those pieces of advice are not enough.
Surgery is one option to cure snoring; dental implants are another. There are many devices as nose clips to keep the nose open and jaw mechanics to keep the jaw in the right position. Different aids work for different people.
There is also a less known, but very effective way to stop snoring. It is to exercise the throat, the tongue, and the jaw muscles so the breathing passage will widen and stay open when you sleep.
About sixty percent of men, and thirty percent of women suffer from snoring. This is probably one of the most common dysfunctions known.
Most of the time snoring is considered not dangerous, but if serious it can become a life threatening sickness called sleep apnea .
Even if snoring is not very bad, it can cause the snorer's spouse to lose sleep. Being sleepy all day long can also be life threatening for the person and those around them.
Snoring is usually an involuntary act during sleep, but may also be produced voluntarily.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Snoring."
Synonyms: SnoringSynonyms: snore (n), stertor (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Snoring |
| English words defined with "snoring": keep ♦ prevent ♦ rhonchus ♦ snore, stertor, stertorous ♦ whistle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "snoring": Driving Pigs ♦ Salsabil. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "snoring": Rhonchisonant, rhonchus. (references) |
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Screenplays | And not just sleeping snoring too! (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Snoring in High C (1916) | |
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 | Snoring. | | Low-toned snoring. |
| Digital snoring. | ||
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Through the Looking-Glass | Carroll, Lewis | In another moment both Queens were fast asleep, and snoring loud. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The Auvergnat was snoring. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Pa turned on his back, and his snoring filled the room with gasps and snorts. |
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Health | The person may snort or gasp, then resume snoring. (references) | |
Like UPPP, LAUP may decrease or eliminate snoring but not sleep apnea itself. (references) | ||
For example, heavy snoring may necessitate a detailed examination of the nose and throat. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Snoring" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 79.43% of the time. "Snoring" is used about 141 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) | 79.43% | 112 | 30,646 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.06% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.67% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.84% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 141 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "snoring"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gërhitës. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "鼾 (snore, Snored). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | snorken. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stertor, snurken (snore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kuorsaus (snore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ronflement (snore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schnarchend, schnarchen (snore, to snore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρόγχοσ (stertorousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חר י (stertorous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hortyogó (stertorous), hortyogás, horkoló (grampus, stertorous), horkolás (snore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | russamento (snore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 鼾" , 鼾 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | か"すい (accomplishment, brackish water, flooding, sprinkling, submerge), いびき. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | "를 곯음. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oringsnay ronco (bellow, growl, grunt, rhonchus, snore). (various references) sforãitor (highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, snorting), sforãialã (bunkum, snort, snorting), horcãit (ruckle, snore, snort, snorting), horãit. (various references) храпеть храп храпящий. (various references) hrkanje (snore). (various references) ronquidos. (various references) gırgır (carpet sweeper, hell, sweep net). (various references) chwyrniad (snarl, snore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "snoring": outsnoring. (additional references) | |
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"Snoring" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Noreng, snorings, snorri, snorring, sontring, soring, sorning, sporing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "snoring" (pronounced snô"ring) |
| 5 | -n ô" r i ng | ignoring. |
| 4 | -ô" r i ng | adoring, boring, deploring, exploring, flooring, Goring, imploring, outpouring, poring, pouring, restoring, roaring, scoring, shoring, soaring, storing, underscoring, warring. |
| 3 | -r i ng | acquiring, adhering, admiring, airing, alluring, appearing, aspiring, assuring, baring, barring, bearing, bioengineering, blaring, caring, chairing, charring, cheering, childbearing, clearing, comparing, conspiring, curing, daring, declaring, despairing, disappearing, domineering, during, earring, electioneering, endearing, enduring, engineering, ensuring, expiring, fearing, firing, flaring, gearing, glaring, haring, hearing, herring, hiring, impairing, inspiring, insuring, interfering, jarring, jeering, luring, marring, maturing, ministering, mooring, nearing, obscuring, overbearing, overhearing, overpowering, pairing, paring, peering, perspiring, pioneering, premiering, preparing, procuring, profiteering, quiring, racketeering, rearing, reassuring, reengineering, rehearing, rehiring, repairing, retiring, scaring, scarring, searing, securing, sharing, shearing, smearing, snaring, sneering, sparing, sparring, Spearing, squaring, staring, starring, steering, stevedoring, swearing, tarring, tearing, tiring, touring, uncaring, uninspiring, unsparing, veering, volunteering, Waring, wearing, wiring. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sorning. | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-n-n-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: girons, grison, groins, nosing, rosing, signor, soring. | |
-2 letters: girns, giron, giros, grins, groin, irons, noirs, noris, ornis, rings, rosin. | |
-3 letters: gins, girn, giro, grin, inns, inro, ions, iron, nogs, noir, nori, rigs, ring, rins, sign, sing, snog, song, sori, sorn. | |
-4 letters: gin, gor, gos, inn, ins, ion, nog, nor, nos, ons, ors, rig, rin. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-n-n-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: grunions, ironings, mornings, negronis, nigrosin, rosining, scorning, snorting. | |
+2 letters: bronzings, censoring, consignor, drownings, endorsing, ignitrons, indorsing, monsignor, mournings, necrosing, nigrosins, nitrogens, nonsigner, northings, onrushing, prisoning, ransoming, reasoning, ringbones, signorina, signorine, suborning, tonsuring, unhorsing, vignerons, worsening. | |
+3 letters: boringness, bringdowns, coarsening, coinsuring, conserving, consignors, consorting, conspiring, constringe, construing, conversing, crimsoning, engrossing, gorgonians, grindstone, groundings, hoarsening, ignorances, incorpsing, incrossing, ingression, inpourings, longicorns, monsignori, monsignors, nonsigners, nonvirgins, nourishing, omniranges, organising, organzines, outsnoring, prognosing, reasonings, reckonings, reopenings, resonating, resounding, responding, romanising, scrounging, shortening, signorinas, snookering, snorkeling, sojourning, sponsoring, stringendo, uncrossing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6E 6F 72 69 6E 67 |
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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)... -. --- .-. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101110 01101111 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S n o r i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006E 006F 0072 0069 006E 0067 |
| 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)53808184758073 |
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