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Definition: WALING |
WALINGNoun1. Same as Wale, n., 4. |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Eng. Cleaning coals by picking out refuse. (references) |
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| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | But if you see me waling by, (Look Away; performing artist: Chicago) | |
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| "Beatutyfull village in holland" by Isaac Esteban Commentary: "Waling through the Amsterdamse bos." |
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| "WALING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WALING" is used about 5 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% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "WALING": Foot waling ♦ waling timber. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
waling waling | 10 |
boracay waling | 4 |
boracay waling waling | 3 |
waling | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "WALING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | vandliste, tvinger (anchor tie, tie beam), tvaertoemmer (ranger, wale, waler, waling timber), forstaerkningstrae (anchor tie, tie beam). (various references) | |
Dutch | sloof (apron), gording (capsill, purlin, purline, transom, transome), ankergording (anchor tie, tie beam), ankerbalk (anchor tie, tie beam). (various references) | |
Finnish | poikkipuu (cross-bar, cross-piece), jäykistin (ranger, wale, waler, waling timber). (various references) | |
French | ventrière, traverse, poutre d'ancrage, membrure. (various references) | |
German | striemend. (various references) | |
Greek | στρωτήρες, διαδοκίδα (crossbeam, girder, longitudinal deck beam, side friction block, transom). (various references) | |
Italian | traversa (arbor, beam, crossbar, crossbeam, crosspiece, crossroad, rail, side street, traverse), trave d'ancoraggio (anchor tie, tie beam), filagna d'ancoraggio (anchor tie, tie beam), filagna (ledger). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alingway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | longarinas (ranger, wale, waler, waling timber). (various references) | |
Russian | полосовать (waled). (various references) | |
Spanish | traviesa (crossbeam, crossing, sleeper, tie). (various references) | |
Swedish | hammarband (ranger, wale, waler, waling timber). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"WALING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Awoling, walin, wallen, wallng, welin, wilig, Wolin, wyling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "WALING" (pronounced 'Wal"ing'): Abearing, Aboding, Agoing, Awanting, Away-going, Awning, Aworking, Baaing, Ballooning, Birding, Birthing, Bocking, Bolling, Bridgeing, Cannonering, Carking, Colling, Crefting, Deglazing, During, firing, Fleaking, Fleming, flying, Foreholding, Gapesing, Ginging, Gloaming, grasping, grooving, interworking, Loring, Louping, Mandarining, Maying, Meaking, Miching, Misbecoming, Misfeeling, Misguiding, Mispleading, Misproceeding, Mistreading, Miting, Monking, morning, Muting, Newing, Noncomplying, Nonconcluding. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lawing. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-l-n-w" | |
-1 letter: algin, align, awing, liang, ligan, linga, wigan. | |
-2 letters: agin, anil, gain, glia, gnaw, lain, lang, lawn, ling, nail, wail, wain, wing. | |
-3 letters: ail, ain, ani, awl, awn, gal, gan, gin, lag, law, lin, nag, naw, nil, wag, wan, wig, win. | |
-4 letters: ag, ai, al, an, aw, in, la, li, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-l-n-w" | |
+1 letter: bawling, blawing, clawing, flawing, lapwing, lawings, wailing, walking, walling, wauling, wawling, whaling, yawling. | |
+2 letters: allowing, brawling, crawling, dawdling, drawling, lacewing, lapwings, shawling, trawling, wabbling, waddling, waffling, waggling, walkings, waltzing, wambling, wangling, warbling, warsling, wattling, weakling, weanling, whalings, windgall. | |
+3 letters: bewailing, clearwing, declawing, fallowing, fawningly, hallowing, inwalling, lacewings, lawmaking, lawyering, outlawing, sallowing, scrawling, sprawling, swaddling, tallowing, twaddling, twangling, twattling, wafflings, walloping, wallowing, warningly, warstling, waylaying, weaklings, weanlings, wearingly, weaseling, windgalls, wineglass, wrangling, wrassling, wrastling, yawningly. | |
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