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Definition: VOYAGING |
VOYAGINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Voyage |
Date "VOYAGING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Crosswords: VOYAGING |
| English words defined with "VOYAGING": equipped ♦ fitted out ♦ unequipped. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | They were voyaging across the deserts of the sky, a host of nomads on the march, voyaging high over Ireland, westward bound. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "VOYAGING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "VOYAGING" is used about 3 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) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
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 |
polynesian society voyaging | 6 |
forever mind voyaging | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "VOYAGING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 远航 (Journeyed, journeying, Voyage, Voyaged). (various references) | ||||
German | reisend (rapid, touring, traveling, travelling, wayfaring). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | tengeri utazás (cruise, voyage), hajóút (sailing, voyage). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 항해 (Nautical, navigating, sailing, seafaring, Voyage). (various references) | ||||
Manx | shiaulley (a boat trip, boat, boating, clearance, crew, cruise, cruising, float off, floating, flow, flow on surface, navigate, navigation, sail, sailing, ship, shipment, voyage). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | oyagingvay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-g-i-n-o-v-y" | |
-2 letters: gyving. | |
-3 letters: aging, agony, avion, going, gonia, naggy, vying, yogin. | |
-4 letters: agin, agio, agog, agon, ayin, gain, gang, giga, gong, naoi, navy, nogg, nova, vagi, vain, vang, viga, vina, vino, viny, yagi, yang, yoga, yogi, yoni. | |
-5 letters: ago, ain, ani, any, avo, gag, gan, gay, gig, gin, goa, goy, ion, ivy, nag, nay, nog. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 4F 59 41 47 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- --- -.--. .- --. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01001111 01011001 01000001 01000111 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V O Y A G I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 004F 0059 0041 0047 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)5649593541434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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