Threshing

Definition: Threshing

Threshing

Noun

1. The separation of grain or seeds from the husks and straw; "they used to do the threshing by hand but now there are machines to do it".

Date "threshing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Threshing

Domain	Definitions
Bible	Threshing See AGRICULTURE. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
	To break down or have an accident while threshing, you will have some great sorrow in the midst of prosperity. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
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Crosswords: Threshing

English words defined with "threshing": flail ♦ threshing floor, threshing machine. (references)

Specialty definitions using "threshing": dinkel wheat ♦ loose straw ♦ spelt wheat, stem-cleaning-machine feeder, stem-threshing-machine operator, SUPERVISOR, THRESHING DEPARTMENT ♦ THRESHER, BROOMCORN, Threshing, THRESHING-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references)

Etymologies containing "threshing": Excussion. (references)

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Modern Usage: Threshing

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	He was caught in a threshing machine. (The Trouble with Harry; writing credit: Jack Trevor Story; John Michael Hayes)
Lyrics	On we sweep with threshing oar, Our only goal will be the western shore. (Immigrant song; performing artist: Led Zeppelin)
Movie/TV Titles	Country Threshing (1958) Threshing Machine at Work (1897)
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Commercial Usage: Threshing

Domain	Title
References	The 2000 Import and Export Market for Harvesting and Threshing Machinery and Equipment in Asia (reference) The 2003 World Market Forecasts for Imported Harvesting and Threshing Machinery and Equipment (reference) The 2002 World Market Forecasts for Imported Harvesting and Threshing Machinery and Equipment (reference) The 2003 World Forecasts of Harvesting and Threshing Machinery and Equipment Export Supplies (reference) The World Market for Harvesting and Threshing Machinery and Equipment: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	The 2000 Import and Export Market for Harvesting and Threshing Machinery and Equipment in Africa [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference) The threshing floor (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Little Threshing Floor (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Image Slideshow: Threshing

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Photo Album: Threshing

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Farmers inspecting rice threshing. 1913.Credit: USDA.		Man seated on Aultman-Taylor threshing machine] / J.A. Hawkins, photographer.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Threshing rice with a steam thresher, Alabang, Rizal Province, Philippines.Credit: Library of Congress.		Threshing wheat near Sedgwick, Colo., South Platte Valley on Union Pacific.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Clover farmer on seed threshing machine, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana.Credit: Library of Congress.		Wheat straw coming out of threshing machine, Frederick, Maryland.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Threshing wheat on Beerman's ranch at Emblem, Wyoming. He has about 160 acres (quarter section), about forty-three in wheat, the rest in oats, beans, and alfalfa. This year he is getting between fifty-five and sixty bushels per acre, whereas ordinarily h.Credit: Library of Congress.		Driver of combine threshing oats on La Delta Project. Thomastown, Louisiana.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Working on the combine threshing oats in La Delta Project. Thomastown, Louisiana.Credit: Library of Congress.		Jackson, Michigan. Part of a threshing machine.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Familiar Quotations: Threshing

Author	Quotation
Burton	As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Threshing

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		The best sales prospects for foreign firms in the Argentine market are harvesting and threshing machinery, irrigation systems, mowers, balers, seeders and poultry related equipment. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Threshing

"Threshing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 54.90% of the time. "Threshing" is used about 51 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)	54.9%	28	65,706
Adjective (general or positive)	27.45%	14	93,893
Noun (singular)	15.69%	8	124,375
Noun (proper)	1.96%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	51	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Threshing

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "threshing".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Dishan	N/A	Biblical	A threshing
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Expression: Threshing

Expressions using "threshing": threshing barn ♦ threshing floor ♦ threshing machine ♦ threshing season ♦ threshing sledge. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "threshing": threshing-floor, threshing-ground, threshing-machine.
	Ending with "threshing": flail-threshing.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Threshing

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
machine threshing	10
show threshing	7
the threshing floor	7
threshing	5
bee threshing	4
steam threshing	3
grain threshing	2
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Modern Translations: Threshing

Language		Translations for "threshing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shirje. (various references)

Arabic		‏دراسة الحنطة. (various references)

Bulgarian		вършеене, вършитба (thrashing). (various references)

Chinese		打谷 (thresh, Threshed). (various references)

Czech		výprask (beating, going-over, hiding, leathering, licking, thrashing, whipping). (various references)

Danish		taerskning (hulling, thrashing), taerske (thrashing). (various references)

Dutch		dorsen (thresh), batteren. (various references)

Finnish		tupakanlehtien puinti, puinti (ancient action of treading out corn, thrashing), puiminen (thrashing). (various references)

French		battage (thrash, thrashings, thresh). (various references)

German		dreschend (flailing), dreschen (bandy, bash, flail, slam, slog, slosh, thrash, thrashing, thrashings, thresh, wallop). (various references)

Greek		απομίσχωση και κοπή, αλώνισμα (thrashing). (various references)

Hebrew		מרוג, דישה (tread), דיש (threshing season, treading). (various references)

Hungarian		cséplés (thrashing). (various references)

Italian		trebbiatura (ancient action of treading out corn, thrashing). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		脱穀 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		だっこく. (various references)

Korean		타작. (various references)

Manx		tasterys (hammering, thrashing). (various references)

Pig Latin		eshingthray

Portuguese		debulha (thrashing). (various references)

Romanian		treieriş (thrashings), treierat (thrashing, thrashings). (various references)

Russian		молотьба (milling, thrashing). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vršidba. (various references)

Spanish		trilla (ancient action of treading out corn, thrashing). (various references)

Swedish		tröskning (thrashing). (various references)

Turkish		harman dövme, harman (blend, harvest, trashing). (various references)

Turkmen		dцwek. (various references)

Ukranian		шмагання (castigation, chastisement, flogging, lashing, leathering, smacking, tanning, thrashing, towelling, warming, whipping), молотьба (thrashing). (various references)

Vietnamese		sân đập lúa (thrashing-floor, threshing-floor), máy đập lúa (thrashing-machine, thresher, threshing-machine). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Threshing

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	tritura, triturae, trituram. (various references)
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Bible Trace: Threshing

Language	Date	Source	1 Chronicles Chapter 21, Verse 20
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai epestreyen orna kai eiden ton basilea kai tessareV uioi autou met' autou meqacabin kai orna hn alown purouV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Porro Ornan cum suspexisset et vidisset angelum quattuorque filii eius cum eo absconderunt se nam eo tempore terebat in area triticum
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And Ornan, turning back, saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him went to a secret place. Now Ornan was crushing his grain.
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Matched Bible Translations: Threshing

Language	1 Chronicles Chapter 21, Verse 20
Cebuano	Ug si Ornan milingi, ug nakakita sa manolonda; ug ang iyang upat ka anak nga lalake nga didto uban kaniya nanagtago sa ilang kaugalingon. Karon si Ornan nagagiuk sa trigo.
Chinese	那時阿珥楠正打麥子．回頭看見天使、就和他四個兒子都藏起來了。
Croatian	A Ornan, okrenuvši se, opazi anðela, a njegova se èetiri sina sakriše. Ornan je vrhao pšenicu.
Danish	Da Ornan vendte sig om, så han Kongen og hans fire Sønner, der var hos ham, komme gående. Ornan var ved at tærske Hvede.
Dutch	Toen zich Ornan wendde, zo zag hij den engel; en zijn vier zonen, die bij hem waren, verstaken zich; en Ornan dorste tarwe.
Finnish	Ja kun Ornan kääntyi, näki hän enkelin, ja hänen neljä poikaansa piiloutui; sillä Ornan oli puimassa nisuja.
French	Ornan se retourna et vit l`ange, et ses quatre fils se cachèrent avec lui: il foulait alors du froment.
German	Ornan aber, da er sich wandte und sah den Engel, und seine vier Söhne mit ihm, versteckten sie sich; denn Ornan drosch Weizen.
Haitian Creole	Onan menm t'ap bat ble ansanm ak kat pitit gason l' yo ki te la avè l' sou glasi a. Lè yo wè zanj lan, pitit li yo kouri al kache.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Di tempat pengirikan gandum itu Arauna dan empat orang anaknya yang laki-laki sedang mengirik gandum. Melihat malaikat itu, keempat anak Arauna itu lari bersembunyi.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka apabila Ornan berpaling dirinya dan terlihatlah ia akan malaekat itu, maka keempat orang anaknya laki-laki yang sertanya itu menyembunyikan dirinya; adapun Ornan itu tengah mengirik gandum.
Italian	Ornan si volse e vide l'angelo; i suoi quattro figli, che erano con lui, si nascosero. Ornan stava trebbiando il grano,
Maori	Na ka tahuri ake a Oronana, ka kite i te anahera; a piri ana ia, ratou ko ana tama tokowha. Na i te patu witi a Oronana.
Norwegian	Da nu Ornan vendte sig om, fikk han se engelen, og hans fire sønner, som var med ham, skjulte sig; Ornan holdt just på med å treske hvete.
Portuguese	E, virando-se Ornã, viu o anjo; e seus quatro filhos, que estavam com ele, se esconderam. Ora, Ornã estava debulhando trigo.
Rumanian	Ornan s`a kntors wi a vqzut kngerul, wi cei patru fii ai lui s`au ascuns kmpreunq cu el: treiera grkul atunci.
Russian	пТОБ ПВТБФЙМУС, ХЧЙДЕМ бОЗЕМБ, Й ЮЕФЩТЕ УЩОБ ЕЗП У ОЙН УЛТЩМЙУШ. пТОБ НПМПФЙМ ФПЗДБ РЫЕОЙГХ.
Swedish	Då Ornan nu vände sig om, fick han se ängeln; och hans fyra söner som voro med honom, gömde sig. Men Ornan höll på att tröska vete.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: Threshing

Misspellings
	"Threshing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: thrahing, threshings. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Threshing

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-h-h-i-n-r-s-t"
	-2 letters: eighths, heights, highest, hingers, hinters, nighest, resight, resting, sighter, stinger.
	-3 letters: eighth, eights, engirt, estrin, girths, griths, height, higher, hights, hinger, hinges, hinter, hither, inerts, ingest, insert, inters, neighs, nigher, nights, niters, nitres, reigns, renigs, resign, rights, sering, shiner, shrine, sigher, signer, signet, singer, sinter, string, thegns, theins, theirs, thighs, things, thresh.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-h-h-i-n-r-s-t"
	+3 letters: earthshaking.
	+4 letters: ethnographies.
	+5 letters: earthshakingly, forthrightness, hundredweights.
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