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Definition: VENTURING |
VENTURINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Venture |
Date "VENTURING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Crosswords: VENTURING |
| English words defined with "VENTURING": timidity, timorousness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "VENTURING": Street. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You pick up strange ideas venturing outside! (Chrono Trigger; writing credit: Yuji Horii; Masato Kato) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Venturing (1991) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Venturing a little too near the Yawning Chasm, Grand Canyon, Arizona, U.S.A.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Herodotus | All men's gains are the fruit of venturing. |
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Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I saw no inhabitants in the place where I landed, and being unarmed, I was afraid of venturing far into the country. |
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Business | While franchising may make great sense, particularly in English teaching and IT training, anyone venturing here will be blazing new trails. (references) | |
In order for foreign companies to access the Portuguese market, they should also consider the possibility of joint venturing, licensing or cooperative service agreements with local companies. (references) | ||
Economic History | Norway | Recently, they have been venturing further into America's heartland. (references) |
Australia | Australians are not only going to Colorado, the traditional leader, but are also venturing to Wyoming, Idaho, Utah and Montana. (references) | |
Norway | Meanwhile, Norway has increased its loan guarantees and has made available new investment funds specifically for Russia and Eastern European countries that could make joint venturing with Norwegian firms attractive in those markets. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "VENTURING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.46% of the time. "VENTURING" is used about 118 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) | 97.46% | 115 | 30,138 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.54% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 118 | 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
venturing | 18 |
bsa venturing | 9 |
business journal venturing | 7 |
corporate venturing | 5 |
abroad electric lincoln venturing | 3 |
scout venturing | 2 |
joint venturing | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "VENTURING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | '险 (Adventure, Adventured, Adventuring, Adventurous, Hazarded, Hazarding, Risked, Risking, Ventured). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | participation-pari (corporate venturing). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | wagend (daring, risking), riskierend (chancing, hazarding, risking), herauswagend (venturing out). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 감행. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | enturingvay осмеливаться рискующий. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "VENTURING": adventuring. (additional references) | |
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"VENTURING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ventalin, ventering, ventoring, venturen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "VENTURING" (pronounced ve"nkhering) |
| 4 | -kh er i ng | butchering, capturing, culturing, featuring, fracturing, gesturing, lecturing, manufacturing, nonmanufacturing, nurturing, picturing, posturing, puncturing, recapturing, restructuring, rupturing, structuring, torturing. |
| 3 | -er i ng | administering, altering, anchoring, angering, answering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, belaboring, beleaguering, bettering, bewildering, bickering, blistering, blundering, blustering, bolstering, bordering, bothering, brokering, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clamoring, clobbering, clustering, cluttering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, countering, covering, cowering, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doctoring, doddering, embroidering, empowering, encountering, endangering, endeavoring, entering, factoring, faltering, fathering, favoring, feathering, festering, figuring, filibustering, filtering, fingering, flattering, flavoring, flickering, floundering, flowering, fluttering, fostering, foundering, frittering, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, glimmering, glittering, glowering, grandfathering, guttering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hectoring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lettering, levering, lingering, littering, loitering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, massacring, mastering, maundering, meandering, measuring, mentoring, metering, minoring, mirroring, mitering, mongering, monitoring, mothering, motoring, murdering, murmuring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neighboring, neutering, numbering, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, pestering, petering, philandering, pilfering, plastering, plundering, pondering, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puttering, quivering, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, reentering, registering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, rewiring, savoring, scampering, scattering, scouring, sculpturing, sequestering, severing, shattering, sheltering, shimmering, shivering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, shuttering, simmering, slaughtering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smattering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, squandering, staggering, stuttering, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, sweltering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, teetering, tempering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, tottering, towering, transpiring, triggering, tutoring, uncovering, unflattering, unwavering, ushering, uttering, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, warmongering, watering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, wondering, Wuthering, zippering. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-n-n-r-t-u-v" | |
-1 letter: retuning. | |
-2 letters: enuring, nerving, renting, ringent, trueing, turning, venting, venturi, vintner. | |
-3 letters: engirt, ginner, grivet, gunite, gunner, gurnet, intern, inturn, invent, invert, tinner, triune, truing, tuning, ungirt, uniter, unrent, urgent, virtue. | |
-4 letters: ennui, given, giver, grunt, inert, inner, inter, inure, inurn, niter, nitre, reign, renig, renin, riven, rivet, ruing, rutin, tiger, tinge, trine, tuner, unite, unrig, untie, urine, uteri, venin, vertu, virtu. | |
-5 letters: etui, gent, genu, gien, girn, girt, give, grin, grit, grue, nevi, nine, nite, rein, rent, ring, rite, rive, ruin, rune, rung, runt, tern, tier, tine, ting, tire, trig, true, trug, tune, tung, turn, unit, urge, vein, vent, vert, vier, vine. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-n-n-r-t-u-v" | |
+2 letters: adventuring, overhunting, overturning. | |
+3 letters: overcounting, overhuntings, rejuvenating, volunteering. | |
+4 letters: circumventing, countermoving, nonfigurative, overindulgent, overingenuity. | |
+5 letters: countervailing, outmaneuvering, overcautioning. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 45 4E 54 55 52 49 4E 47 |
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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)...- . -. - ..- .-. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01000101 01001110 01010100 01010101 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V E N T U R I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0045 004E 0054 0055 0052 0049 004E 0047 |
| 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)563948545552434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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