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Definitions: WEEDING |
WEEDING1. A. & n. from Weed, v. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Weed |
Date "WEEDING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you are weeding, foretells that you will have difficulty in proceeding with some work which will bring you distinction. To see others weeding, you will be fearful that enemies will upset your plans. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | The elimination or suppression in stands not past the sapling stage, of weeds, climbers or sod-forming grasses as in plantations, or of trees of similar age to, but of less desirable species or form than, the crop trees, which they are or may soon be overtopping. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The primary purpose of weed control is to prevent weeds competing with a crop for nutrients, light and water and so reducing the yield. Weed control often benefits the farmer in other ways, for it brings about easier singling in root crops, easier harvesting of cereal crops and improved crop quality. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fewness | Reduction; weeding; Verb: elimination, sarculation, decimation; eradication. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: WEEDING |
| English words defined with "WEEDING": Aberuncator ♦ comb-out ♦ do ♦ execute ♦ perform ♦ Runcation ♦ Sarculation ♦ Weeding chisel, Weeding forceps, Weeding fork, Weeding hook, weeding iron, Weeding tongs. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "WEEDING": chemical weeding ♦ FARMWORKER, DIVERSIFIED CROPS II, FARMWORKER, FIELD CROP I, field supervisor, flame weeding ♦ Library Collection Development, Library Technical Services ♦ ROW BOSS, HOEING ♦ SUPERVISOR, FIELD-CROP FARMING, SUPERVISOR, VEGETABLE FARMING ♦ Weeding. (references) |
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Clever | A person's character and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding that was done during the growing season. (references; author: unknown) | |
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 | One of a Mexican field gang of migratory laborers thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants. The young plants are "capped" with wax paper spread over a wire wicket to protect against cold and accelerate growth. The laborers' wages are thirty cents an hour. I.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mexican gang of migratory laborers under a Japanese field boss. These men are thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants. Wages thirty cents an hour. These young plants are "capped" with wax paper spread over a wire wicket to protect against cold and to accel.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Weeding the seedbeds at guayule nursery at Salinas, California.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Weeding the seedbeds at guayule nursery at Salinas, California.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Weeding guayule nursery beds. A special small power cultivator cleans the space between the rows, but the rows themselves must be weeded by hand. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in 1943, pro.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under FSA (Farm Security Administration) management. Japanese-Americans weeding beans.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under FSA (Farm Security Administration) management. Japanese-Americans weeding beans.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under FSA (Farm Security Administration) management. Japanese-Americans weeding beans.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) boys weeding seedlings at TVA nursery.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He usually passed an hour or two there, trimming, weeding, and making holes here and there in the ground, and planting seeds. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I think that I may warrant you one worm to every three sods you turn up, if you look well in among the roots of the grass, as if you were weeding. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Apoptosis is a kind of cell suicide that is important for weeding out unnecessary cells in normal development, maintaining tissues in a continuously healthy state, and targeting cancerous cells in the adult. (references) | |
Business | However, competitions seems to be weeding out those companies who are not investing in better technology and improved administration of resources. (references) | |
With the deregulation of the European airline industry, the growth in regional airlines has gone through various phases, including the creation of many new airlines and the gradual weeding out of the weak. Now that the market has more or less consolidated, a period of more steady growth is expected. (references) | ||
Economic History | Nicaragua | The government supports efforts by the Supreme Court to strengthen the judicial system, in part by weeding out corrupt and incompetent judges; nevertheless, it is apparent that corruption remains a problem in the court system. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "WEEDING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 72.34% of the time. "WEEDING" is used about 94 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) | 72.34% | 68 | 40,606 |
| Noun (singular) | 19.15% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.32% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.19% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 94 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "WEEDING": chemical weeding ♦ flame weeding ♦ weeding chisel ♦ weeding forceps ♦ weeding fork ♦ weeding hook ♦ weeding iron ♦ weeding tongs. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "WEEDING": weeding-out, Weeding-rhim. | |
Ending with "WEEDING": hand-weeding. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
weeding | 64 | big fat greek weeding | 4 |
weeding tool | 24 | favor weeding | 4 |
dress weeding | 18 | speech weeding | 4 |
american weeding | 8 | weeding library collection | 3 |
future negative weeding | 7 | decoration weeding | 3 |
library weeding | 6 | weeding hoe | 3 |
garden weeding | 6 | weeding band | 3 |
song weeding | 5 | garden tool weeding | 2 |
mower pull weeding | 5 | erra fazira weeding | 2 |
invitation weeding | 5 | hair style weeding | 2 |
weeding ring | 5 | picture weeding | 2 |
gown weeding | 4 | card greeting weeding | 2 |
weeding gift | 4 | card weeding | 2 |
cake weeding | 4 | flame weeding | 2 |
flower weeding | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "WEEDING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tëharrje (pruning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | плевене. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 除草 (Weeded). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ukrudtsstikling (spudding, weed spudding), udtynding (blocking, decongestion, depletion, down-the-row thinning, gapping, intermediate cut, intermediate cutting, intermediate felling, lopping, pre-thinning, pruning, single, singling, thinning, thinning out), udrensning (bushing, cleaning, curettage, disengagement cutting, disengagement felling, refining, sifting), lugning (weed control, weed eradication), lugearbejde (weed control, weed eradication), behandling med ukrudtsdræbende middel (weed-killing treatment), behandling med plantedræber (weed-killing treatment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wieden (weed, weed out), zuivering van vooral jonge opstanden (bushing, disengagement cutting, disengagement felling), uitschieten (bud), uitkammen (comb, rake), uitdunnen (down-the-row thinning, gapping, lopping, pre-thinning, pruning, thinning, thinning out), schoffelen (weed, weed out), schifting (partition, separation), onkruidsteken (spudding, to spud, to weed, weed spudding), onkruidbestrijding (weed control, weed eradication, weed-killing treatment), onkruidbeheersing (weed control, weed eradication). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rikkakasvien torjunta (weed control, weed eradication), poistaa (abolish, deduct, delete, do away with, eliminate, exclude, remove, strike out, take out, withdraw, write off), perkaus (cleaning, clearing), perkaaminen (bushing, cleaning, disengagement cutting, disengagement felling), kitkentä (weed control, weed eradication), kitkeminen (spudding, weed control, weed eradication, weed spudding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sarclage (weed control, weed eradication). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | jäten (grub, weed, weed out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καταστροφή των ζιζανίων (spudding, weed spudding), βοτάνισμα (spudding, weed spudding), ξεχορτάριασμα (spudding, weed spudding), ζιζανιοκτόνος επέμβαση (weed-killing treatment), εκκαθάριση (clean up, clearing, liquidation, purging, refinement), αποψίλωση (desforestation), αφαίρεση άχρηστων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gyomlálás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | trattamento erbicida (weed-killing treatment), sarchiatura (harrowing, scarifying, weed control, weed eradication), ripulitura (bushing, cleaning, disengagement cutting, disengagement felling), maggese (fallow, of may), epurare (purge), eliminazione delle erbe spontanee (weed control, weed eradication), diserbo chimico (chemical hoeing, chemical weed control, chemical weeding, spray cultivation, weed-killing treatment), diserbo (weed control, weed eradication), diserbatura (weed control, weed eradication), diserbamento (spudding, weed spudding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 除草 , 草毟り (weeder, weeding fork), 草取り (weeder, weeding fork), 草むしり (weeder, weeding fork), 下刈り . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | したがり, くさむしり (weeder, weeding fork), くさとり (weeder, weeding fork), じょそう (approach run, defrosting, female clothing, introduction, wearing female clothing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 제초. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gartlianagh (weeder), gartlian (weed out), gartlanagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eedingway tratamento herbicida (weed-killing treatment), sacha (harrowing, hoeing, scarifying, weed control, weed eradication), limpeza de mato (bushing, cleaning, disengagement cutting, disengagement felling), eliminação de colecções. (various references) praşilã, prãşiturã (hoeing), prãşitor (hoeing, weeder), prãşit (hoeing), plivit. (various references) удалять очистка. (various references) tratamiento matayuyos (weed-killing treatment), tratamiento herbicida (weed-killing treatment), selección (choice, picking, selection), escardadura (weed control, weed eradication), escarda (spud), despeje (clearance), desmalezado (weed control, weed eradication), depurar el fondo, arrancar las malas hierbas (spudding, to spud, to weed, weed spudding), acción y efecto de escardar (weed control, weed eradication). (various references) ogrässtickning (spudding, weed spudding), ogräsrensning (weed control, weed eradication), lukning (weed control, weed eradication), gallring (sorting out, thinning). (various references) очистка (clearing, offscouring, purification, scouring, scrubbing), проріджування (thinning), поління, полоття. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"WEEDING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: waveding, weading, weafing, wealding, weding, weedn, weedons, weening, wheeding, Wiedig, wineding, woiding, wyedean. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "WEEDING" (pronounced wē"ding) |
| 4 | -ē" d i ng | acceding, bleeding, breeding, ceding, conceding, exceeding, feeding, heeding, impeding, inbreeding, interceding, kneading, leading, misleading, misreading, needing, pleading, preceding, proceeding, receding, Reding, rereading, seceding, seeding, speeding, stampeding, succeeding, superseding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | abiding, abounding, according, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, amending, applauding, apprehending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, banding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bending, bidding, biding, binding, blending, blinding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, brooding, budding, building, cascading, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, evading, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, fading, featherbedding, fending, feuding, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handholding, handing, heading, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, hounding, impending, imploding, including, intending, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, lading, landholding, landing, lauding, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, nodding, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, plodding, portending, pounding, precluding, presiding, pretending, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebounding, rebuilding, recommending, recording, Redding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, sending, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, spellbinding, spending, spreading, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, trading, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unloading, unwinding, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, welding, wending, wielding, Wilding, winding, withholding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding, yielding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-i-n-w" | |
-1 letter: dewing, wedgie, winged. | |
-2 letters: deign, diene, dinge, dwine, genie, newie, ngwee, wedge, widen, wined. | |
-3 letters: dene, deni, dine, ding, edge, eide, geed, gene, gied, gien, need, nide, weed, ween, wend, wide, wind, wine, wing. | |
-4 letters: dee, den, dew, die, dig, din, end, eng, ewe, ged, gee, gen, gid, gie, gin, nee, new, wed, wee. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-i-n-w" | |
+1 letter: bedewing, bewinged, wedeling. | |
+2 letters: rewedding, rewelding, tweedling, wendigoes, wheedling. | |
+3 letters: dewatering, reendowing, rewidening, unweighted, weekending. | |
+4 letters: bewildering, deflowering, underweight. | |
+5 letters: misknowledge, underweights. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 45 45 44 49 4E 47 |
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