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SOUTHING

Definition: SOUTHING

SOUTHING

Noun

1. Distance southward from any point departure or of reckoning, measured on a meridian; -- opposed to northing.

2. Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude.

3. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian of a place.

4. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun.

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of South

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SOUTHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)


Specialty Definition: SOUTHING

DomainDefinition

Mining

A distance measured southwards from an east-west reference line. (references)

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

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Crosswords: SOUTHING

English words defined with "SOUTHING": LunisticeNorthing. (references)

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Modern Translation: SOUTHING

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

Bulgarian 

  

придвижване на юг. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κλίση προσ νότο. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

""רמ" (turning south). (various references)

   

Manx

  

goll my yiass. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

outhingsay

   

Portuguese

  

passagem pelo meridiano, declinação austral, avanço para o sul. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

avance al sur. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

güneye doğru uzaklık, güneye doğru rota, güneye doğru gitme. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

зюйдова різниця широт, просування на південь, проходження через меридіан. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: SOUTHING

Derivations

Words beginning with "SOUTHING": southings. (additional references)


Misspellings

"SOUTHING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: somthing, sothing, southen. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: SOUTHING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: shouting.

Words within the letters "g-h-i-n-o-s-t-u"

-1 letter: gunshot, hognuts, hosting, housing, noughts, ousting, outings, outsing, shotgun, shuting, thouing, tousing, tushing, unsight.

-2 letters: hognut, hosing, ingots, nights, nought, oughts, outing, outsin, shogun, sought, stingo, things, thongs, tigons, tonish, toughs.

-3 letters: ghost, gouts, gusto, hints, hoist, hongs, hunts, ingot, nighs, night, ohing, ought, shout, shunt, sight, snout, sough, south, sting, stung, suing.

 Words containing the letters "g-h-i-n-o-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: southings.

 

+2 letters: beshouting, outfishing, outpushing, outrushing, outshaming, outshining, outwishing, upshooting.

 

+3 letters: authorising, doughtiness, foxhuntings, groupthinks, mistouching, outblushing, outhustling, outscheming, outshooting, outshouting, pothuntings, scouthering, shotgunning, unrighteous.

 

+4 letters: droughtiness, glutathiones, housesitting, meetinghouse, outthrusting, overhuntings, roughcasting, shortcutting, silhouetting, thoroughpins, upholstering.

 

+5 letters: countinghouse, doughtinesses, flugelhornist, housetraining, interboroughs, laughingstock, meetinghouses, outstretching, righteousness, toothbrushing, undershooting, unrighteously.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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