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Definition: STOPPING-OUT |
STOPPING-OUTNoun1. A method adopted in etching, to keep the acid from those parts which are already sufficiently corroded, by applying varnish or other covering matter with a brush, but allowing the acid to act on the other parts. |
| "STOPPING-OUT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "STOPPING-OUT" is used about 2 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "STOPPING-OUT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 停止 (Cease, Ceased, Ceasing, Cessation, Descend, Descended, Descending, Desist, Desisted, Desisting, stoppage, stopped, stopped-up, stopping). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 멈춤 밖으로. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | opping-outstay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-n-o-o-p-p-s-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: outpoints. | |
-3 letters: opposing, outpoint, pogonips, spittoon, spotting, spouting, stooping, stopping, toppings. | |
-4 letters: oppugns, options, ousting, outings, outpost, outsing, pignuts, pigouts, pogonip, pooping, popguns, posting, potions, potting, pouting, putting, sooting, sopping, souping, spinout, stoping, supping, tiptops, tooting, topping, topspin, tousing, touting, tupping, uppings, utopist. | |
-5 letters: gipons, ingots, inputs, isogon, oppugn, opting, option, outing, outsin, outsit. | |
| 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. | |
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