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Definition: WESTING |
WESTINGNoun1. The distance, reckoned toward the west, between the two meridians passing through the extremities of a course, or portion of a ship's path; the departure of a course which lies to the west of north. |
Date "WESTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
Crosswords: WESTING |
| English words defined with "WESTING": Meridional distance. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Westing Game (1997) | |
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Economic History | Korea | In an effort to privatize Hanjung, the leading player of supplying power plant equipment and construction in Korea, MOCIE plans to sell a 25% stake to GE and Westing House for a strategic alliance by September 2000. Hanjung will be listed on the Korean stock market by September 2000 and a 24% stake will be offered to the public. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; 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 |
the westing game | 139 |
westing | 17 |
house westing | 15 |
game summary westing | 13 |
game lesson plan westing | 10 |
game movie westing | 9 |
house westing white | 6 |
character game westing | 6 |
the westing game by ellen raskin | 4 |
activity game westing | 4 |
book game westing | 3 |
heir westing | 3 |
book game summary westing | 3 |
game review westing | 2 |
chapter game summary westing | 2 |
cliff game note westing | 2 |
game note westing | 2 |
game video westing | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "WESTING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разстояние изминато на запад, курс на запад. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | haladás nyugat felé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | raad sheear. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | estingway marcha em direção a oeste. (various references) дрейф на вест. (various references) odlaženje (exodus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "WESTING": westings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "WESTING" (pronounced 'West"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: stewing, twinges. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-n-s-t-w" | |
-1 letter: ingest, sewing, signet, swinge, tewing, tinges, twines, twinge, wisent. | |
-2 letters: gents, inset, neist, newts, nites, segni, sengi, senti, sinew, singe, stein, sting, swine, swing, tines, tinge, tings, twigs, twine, twins, wines, wings, wites. | |
-3 letters: egis, engs, gens, gent, gest, gets, gien, gies, gins, gist, gits, nest, nets, news, newt, nite, nits, sent, sewn. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-n-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: strewing, sweating, sweeting, weltings, westings, wettings, wingiest, winglets, wresting. | |
+2 letters: bestowing, bitewings, sweetings, swingiest, towelings, twangiest, unweights, waterings, westering, wrestling. | |
+3 letters: bestrewing, bestrowing, enswathing, entwisting, knowingest, lengthwise, retwisting, songwriter, stewarding, sweetening, sweltering, swithering, towellings, wadsetting, weeknights, whitenings, whitewings, willingest, witnessing, wrestlings. | |
+4 letters: growthiness, networkings, newswriting, outswearing, postweaning, prewritings, songwriters, springwater, sweetenings, swingingest, swingletree, waitressing, waterskiing, weatherings, weightiness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 45 53 54 49 4E 47 |
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