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Definition: WHETTING |
WHETTINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Whet |
Date "WHETTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Crosswords: WHETTING |
| English words defined with "WHETTING": Finger steel. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Akhenaton | Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "WHETTING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "WHETTING" is used about 8 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) | 87.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "WHETTING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | جلخ (honing), شحذ (be sharp, edge, grind, hone, quicken, sharp, sharpen, sharpening, stone, strop, whet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 磨 (skive, Skiving, Whet, Whetted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | aiguisage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wetzend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לטישה (forging, polishing, sharpening), שחיזה (sharpening), שנון (ingenious, keen, learning, memorizing, pointed, repetition, revision, salty, sharp, subtle, witty), השחזה (grinding, sharpening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | köszörülés (grinding, setting, whet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 갈음질. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ettingwhay точить (edge, grind, hone, sharpen, strops, turn, whet). (various references) creanas (whetting or hacking of sticks). (various references) afilado (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, grinding, hone, keen, lurid, setting, sharp, sharp-edged, sharpening, sharply-edged). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"WHETTING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: wheating, whenting, wheting. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-n-t-t-w" | |
-1 letter: tighten, wetting. | |
-2 letters: hewing, tewing, twinge, weight, whinge, whiten. | |
-3 letters: eight, hinge, neigh, night, tenth, thegn, thein, thine, thing, tight, tinge, tithe, twine, weigh, whine, white, wight, withe. | |
-4 letters: gent, gien, hent, hewn, hint, nett, newt, nigh, nite, tent, teth, then, thew, thin, tine, ting, tint, twig, twin, twit, went, when, whet, whig, whin. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-h-i-n-t-t-w" | |
+3 letters: intergrowth. | |
+4 letters: bantamweight, ghostwritten, intergrowths, interwrought. | |
+5 letters: bantamweights, counterweight, mouthwatering, weightlifting. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 48 45 54 54 49 4E 47 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .... . - - .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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