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VOYAGING

Definition: VOYAGING

VOYAGING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Voyage

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "VOYAGING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Crosswords: VOYAGING

English words defined with "VOYAGING": equippedfitted outunequipped. (references)

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Commercial Usage: VOYAGING

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

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

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Use in Literature: VOYAGING

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: VOYAGING

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)100%3202,518

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: VOYAGING

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  polynesian society voyaging

6

  forever mind voyaging

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: VOYAGING

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: VOYAGING

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: VOYAGING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 4F 59 41 47 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...-    ---    -.--.    .-    --.    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01001111 01011001 01000001 01000111 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#79 &#89 &#65 &#71 &#73 &#78 &#71

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5649593541434841

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INDEX

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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