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Definition: Accompanying |
AccompanyingAdjective1. Following as a consequence; "an excessive growth of bureaucracy, with related problems"; "snags incidental to the changeover in management". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "accompanying" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: AccompanyingSynonyms: attendant (adj), concomitant (adj), incidental (adj), incidental to(p) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Accompaniment | Adjective: accompanying; Verb: concomitant, fellow, twin, joint; associated with, coupled with; accessory, attendant, obbligato. |
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 | The accompanying movie shows the Saturn white spot, a great storm in the equatorial region of ... Credit: NASA. |  | View from sea of Santa Barbara and mountains to north Sketch by William B. McMurtrie accompanying Survey H-289. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | View of San Pedro Harbor with ACTIVE and EWING Sketch by William B. McMurtrie accompanying Survey H-289. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Sir Edmund Hillary after accompanying first plane to land at the Marble Point ground air strip. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Text accompanying Plate I. In: "Report on the Florida Reefs", 1880, by Louis Agassiz. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Vol. VII, No. 1. Plate I. NOAA Central Library Call No. QE565.A263 1880 These plates help document the oldest studies of the Florida Reefs. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | "A New Map of Earthquake Distribution", by Captain Nicholas Heck, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. In: The Geographical Review, Vol. XXV, 1935. Pp. 125-130. Heck noted for the first time that earthquakes were associated with the Mid- Atlantic Ridge in his accompanying paper. Heck first produced a world seismicity map showing the activity on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in 1932. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | "Distribution of Earthquakes" as published in the "Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, p. 93, May, 1936. Captain Nicholas Heck of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey noted that earthquakes were associated with the Mid- Atlantic Ridge in his accompanying paper. Heck first produced a world seismicity map showing the activity on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in 1932. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | On board the PRINCESS ALICE II at sea. The lady is Mademoiselle Jeanne Le Roux, an artist accompanying the expedition. Plate VII, print 7. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Map of TIROS II infrared imagery with accompanying cloud analysis. TIROS II was the first meteorological satellite to carry infra-red remote sensing instruments. Credit: NOAA in Space. |  | Titled "TIROS fills a void for World Weather Watch." This image show composite imagery in the southern ocean with accompanying weather map and analysis. Credit: NOAA in Space. |
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| "Cafe lights 4" by Annette Gulick Commentary: "Some interesting lights at a coffee shop (and accompanying blur effects) ." | "Seagull 1" by João Estêvão A. De Freitas Commentary: "Seagull accompanying the boat." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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 | Timpani and drone string accompanying a solo steal-string blues guitar. | | Double-time bass and accompanying melody with slow chimes up high. |
| Piano and synthesizer accompanying a guitar solo. | | Gassy and spacy sounds accompanying a repetitive keyboard pattern. |
| Piano and guitar duet with the piano accompanying the melodic guitar. | | Angular synthesized melody with accompanying digital spacy sounds. |
| Synthesized strings accompanying a simple guitar melody. | | A short excerpt featuring a chordal melody with accompanying bass counterpoint. |
| Deep and low drums accompanying a steel string guitar. | | A pentatonic melody played on a keyboard with digital drums accompanying. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Oliver Goldsmith | Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | With regard to her not accompanying them to Ireland, her account to her aunt contained nothing but truth, though there might be some truths not told |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He knew him from having seen him many times accompanying Marius to the door |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The vast cycle of starry life bore his weary mind outward to its verge and inward to its centre, a distant music accompanying him outward and inward |
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions | Neil Gaiman | Benjamin Lassiter was coming to the unavoidable conclusion that the woman who had written A Walking Tour of the British Coastline, the book he was carrying in his backpack, had never been on a walking tour of any kind, and would probably not recognize the British coastline if it were to dance through her bedroom at the head of a marching band, singing 'I'm the British Coastline' in a loud and cheerful voice while accompanying itself on the kazoo |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Parkinsonism accompanying other conditions. (references) | |
The inheritance patterns for the CF gene are shown in the accompanying diagram. (references) | ||
Therapies that include cognitive techniques may also address accompanying depression. (references) | ||
Business | As a public procurement law does not have accompanying executing regulations, the result is wide variances in executing procurement. (references) | |
A growing problem accompanying the growth is the difficulty that services firms are experiencing in finding sufficient qualified staff to service their clients. (references) | ||
Instructions accompanying flooring products sold in Canada must be in both of Canada's official languages, English and French, and must comply with labeling requirements. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Vietnam | Because the use of mediums was essential to ceremonies accompanying promotion of clerics to higher ranks, the new Cao Dai constitution effectively banned clerical promotions. (references) |
Korea | For example, journalists accompanying the U.S. Secretary of State in 2000 were not allowed to visit a department store or a train station; they were not allowed to talk to officials or to persons on the street. (references) | |
Economic History | Argentina | The only exception applies to drivers accompanying hardware imports. (references) |
Human Rights | Djibouti | Court cases are heard in public before a presiding judge and two accompanying judges. (references) |
Pakistan | On January 31, police in Lahore arrested 29 female activists from the Pakistan Peoples Party, along with 6 children accompanying them. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Japan | A nonbinding accompanying resolution referred to the Ainu as a legal Japanese minority. (references) |
Minorities | Iran | The UNSR reported that in December 2000, police forcefully disrupted a peaceful demonstration by Kurdish students at the University of Tehran was broken up by the police, with accompanying arrests and injuries. (references) |
Political Economy | Sudan | Trafficking generally is initiated by government-affiliated militias accompanying troop trains to the southern garrison towns of Aweil and Wau. (references) |
Swaziland | The King rules according to unwritten law and custom, in conjunction with a partially elected parliament and an accompanying structure of published laws and implementing agencies. (references) | |
Trade | Croatia | All information must be in Croatian and affixed to (or accompanying) each product before it is put on the market. (references) |
Zambia | The sector is governed by the Banking and Financial Services Act of 1994 and accompanying regulations of the Laws of Zambia. (references) | |
Taiwan | Fresh produce is inspected for pesticide residues and accompanying phytosanitary certificates are checked for completeness and accuracy. (references) | |
Travel | South Africa | There are no special restrictions imposed on families accompanying foreign personnel working in South Africa. (references) |
Ecuador | Personal laptops and software may be hand carried and enter as accompanying baggage as well as small quantities of exhibit materials. (references) | |
Switzerland | For more extensive items accompanying a business visitor, the ATA Carnets in use for a wide range of countries may be used in Switzerland as well. (references) | |
Women | Bhutan | Among some groups, inheritance practices favoring daughters reportedly account for the large numbers of women who own shops and businesses and for an accompanying tendency of women to drop out of higher education to go into business. (references) |
Worker Rights | Mexico | Allegations have been made that workers, including young children accompanying them, have been exposed to pesticides and other chemicals. (references) |
Brazil | Witnesses' fear of retaliation and the fact that police generally do not conduct criminal investigations when accompanying labor inspectors on raids also complicate efforts to build a solid case in court. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | I can't wait for the Democratic primary and the cannibalization accompanying it to begin. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | A communication from the governor of the State of Maine, with accompanying documents, and a correspondence between the Secretary of State and the minister of Great Britain on this subject are now communicated. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | For a detailed and highly satisfactory view of the operations of the War Department I refer you to the accompanying report of the Secretary of War. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Accompanying" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 52.46% of the time. "Accompanying" is used about 691 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) | 52.46% | 363 | 14,875 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 46.68% | 323 | 16,021 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.43% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.43% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 691 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "accompanying": accompanying person ♦ accompanying persons'programme ♦ accompanying vein. 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 |
accompanying | 24 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "accompanying"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shoqërues (accompanist, attendant, cicerone, companion, concomitant, date, escort, follow up, following, guide, suitor, usher). (various references) | |
Arabic | مصاحب, صديقة مرافقة, الصديق المرافق. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съпровождащ, придружаващ (attendant). (various references) | |
Chinese | 隨同 , 伴随 (Accompanied, Accompany, Concomitant). (various references) | |
Czech | doprovázející. (various references) | |
Danish | tilhoevende tekst. (various references) | |
Dutch | ingesloten (lock). (various references) | |
Esperanto | aldonita. (various references) | |
Finnish | myötä seuraava (attached, enclosed), mukana seuraava (attached, enclosed). (various references) | |
French | accompagnant, accompagné (accompanied), texte explicatif. (various references) | |
German | zuzüglich (along with, plus, together with, with), zurückbegleitend (accompanying back), zugehörig (affiliated, allowing, appropriate, appurtenant, belonging, belonging to, dedicated, incidental, to associate), Begleittext. (various references) | |
Greek | που συνοδεύει, επεξηγηματικό κείμενο (caption). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מצורף (added, attached, enclosed), לווי (accompaniment, escort), לואי (adjunct, attachment, attribute, auxiliary, if, if only, secondary, would that), נלוה (accessory, dependant, escort). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vele járó (attendant, inherent, requisite), kísérő (concomitant, escort, follower, gillie, haunting). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mendampingi (closely assist, flank). (various references) | |
Italian | testo esplicativo. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 供 (attendant, companion, retinue). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ずいはん (attendance, following), ぐぶ (being in attendance on), どうどう (going with, grand, impressive, magnificent), どうこう (attitude, copper ore, movement, pupil, pupillary, same school, similar tastes, tendency, travelling together, trend), とも (all, and, as well as, attendant, both, companion, follower, friend, including, neither, pal, plural ending, retinue, stern, together with, with), てんじょう (ceiling, ceiling price, escorting, heaven and earth, palace circles, palace floor, the court, the heavens). (various references) | |
Korean | 부대 (Bag, troop, troops). (various references) | |
Manx | cooidjagh (jointly, together), ayns sheshaght rish. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | accompanyingay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | anexado, acompanhar (accompany, carry, chaperon, coddle, companion, consort, escort, follow, go along, go along with, keep up with, mark, marshal, pilot, see, squire, take, walk one up), acompanhante (accompanier, accompanist, companian, companion), texto explicativo. (various references) | |
Romanian | concomitent (accessary, concomitant, concurrent, instantaneous, simultaneous), întovãrãşire (accompaniment, association), însoţitor (attendant, companion, concomitant, conductor, consort, mate, porter, squire). (various references) | |
Russian | сопутствующий (apendant, appendant, concomitant), сопровождающий (annotative, attendant, concomitant), сопровождать сопутствующий, попутный (large, passing). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | u pratnji, propratni, prateći (attendant, concomitant). (various references) | |
Spanish | acompan~ando, texto explicativo, que acompaña. (various references) | |
Swedish | tillhörande (appurtenant). (various references) | |
Turkish | eşlik eden (attendant, concomitant, in waiting), birlikte olan, beraberindeki (concomitant). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | супровідний (appendant, associate, attendant, concomitant). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | collateralis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Samuel Chapter 6, Verse 4 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Sun th kibwtw kai oi adelfoi autou eporeuonto emprosqen thV kibwtou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Cumque tulissent eam de domo Abinadab qui erat in Gabaa custodiens arcam Dei Haio praecedebat arcam |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne thei hadden taken it fro the hows of Amynadab, that was in Gabaa, Hayon kepynge the arke of God, wente before the arke. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which was at Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was at Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And Uzzah went by the side of the ark, while Ahio went before it. |
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| Language | 2 Samuel Chapter 6, Verse 4 |
| Cebuano | Ug gidala nila kini gikan sa balay ni Abinadab, nga didto sa bungtod, uban sa arca sa Dios: ug si Ahio miuna sa arca. |
| Croatian | Uza je stupao kraj Kovèega Božjeg, a Ahjo išao pred njim. |
| Danish | således at Uzza gik ved Siden af og Ajo foran Guds Ark. |
| Dutch | Toen zij hem nu uit het huis van Abinadab, dat op den heuvel is, met de ark Gods, wegvoerden, zo ging Ahio voor de ark henen. |
| Finnish | Niin he veivät Jumalan arkin pois Abinadabin talosta, joka oli mäellä, kulkien Jumalan arkin mukana, ja Ahjo kulki arkin edellä. |
| French | Ils l`emportèrent donc de la maison d`Abinadab sur la colline; Uzza marchait à côté de l`arche de Dieu, et Achjo allait devant l`arche. |
| German | Und da sie ihn mit der Lade Gottes aus dem Hause Abinadabs führten, der auf einem Hügel wohnte, und Ahjo vor der Lade her ging, |
| Haitian Creole | kote yo te mete Bwat Kontra Bondye a. Akiyo t'ap mache devan kabwa a. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | dan Ahio berjalan di depannya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka apabila dihantarnya akan dia dari dalam rumah Abinadab, yang di atas bukit itu, serta dengan tabut Allah, berjalanlah Ahio di hadapan tabut itu. |
| Italian | Uzzà stava presso l'arca di Dio e Achìo precedeva l'arca. |
| Maori | Na kawea ana i te whare o Apinarapa i Kipea, me te haere tahi ano ratou ko te aaka a te Atua; i haere ano a Ahio i mua i te aaka. |
| Norwegian | Således førte de Guds ark bort fra Abinadabs hus, som lå på haugen, og fulgte med den, og Ahjo gikk foran arken. |
| Portuguese | Foram, pois, levando-o da casa de Abinadabe, que estava sobre o outeiro, com a arca de Deus; e Aiô ia adiante da arca. |
| Rumanian | L-au luat dar din casa lui Abinadab de pe deal; Uza mergea alqturi de chivotul lui Dumnezeu, wi Ahio mergea knaintea chivotului. |
| Spanish | con el arca de Dios, y se la llevaron de la casa de Abinadab, que estaba en la colina. Ajío iba delante del arca. |
| Swedish | Så förde de Guds ark bort ifrån Abinadabs hus på höjden, och följde själva med, och Ajo gick därvid framför arken. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Accompanying" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accompaning, acompanying. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "accompanying" (pronounced uku"mpunēing) |
| 4 | -n ē i ng | journeying. |
| 3 | -ē i ng | bullying, burying, carrying, copying, cozying, currying, dairying, dizzying, embodying, emptying, ferrying, hurrying, jockeying, jollying, levying, lobbying, marrying, monkeying, muddying, partying, photocopying, pitying, quarrying, rallying, readying, remarrying, remedying, scurrying, studying, tallying, taxiing, varying, wearying, worrying. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-g-i-m-n-n-o-p-y" | |
-2 letters: companying. | |
-3 letters: accompany, canopying, poignancy. | |
-4 letters: agnomina, apogamic, campaign, manganic. | |
-5 letters: angioma, apogamy, camping, campion, campong, canonic, coaming, company, comping, copying, manioca, moaning, poncing, ponying. | |
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