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Definition: AIDING |
AIDINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Aid |
Date "AIDING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Aid | Adjective: aiding; Verb: auxiliary, adjuvant, helpful; coadjuvant; subservient, ministrant, ancillary, accessory, subsidiary. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: AIDING |
| English words defined with "AIDING": accoucheuse, Art and part ♦ betrayal ♦ Deglutitory ♦ Embryoplastic, Eugenio Pacelli ♦ facilitatory, fosterage, fostering ♦ Inspirtory ♦ Maieutical, Memoria technica, midwife, mnemonic, mnemotechnic, mnemotechnical ♦ Opitulation ♦ Pius XII ♦ sight, Subventitious, Supplyant, support. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "AIDING": Accident, aiding suicide ♦ Chemistry, Clinical, Computable general equilibrium model ♦ Ferraris truss ♦ seeding lath, sowing lath, sustaining member ♦ TEACHER, VOCATIONAL TRAINING ♦ Vaticanus, Codex. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "AIDING": Supplyant. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I gave you the chance of aiding me willingly, but you have elected the way of pain! (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [German prisoner aiding Red Cross in transporting wounded].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Shenandoah Valley. The Valley State Employment Service is aiding in the tapping the skilled labor resources of the Valley. These signs have been widely distributed. This one is in the center of Harrisonburg.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
S. Spring | High aims and lofty purposes are the wings of the soul aiding it to mount to heaven. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | God aiding, and the prince also, she entered. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | It seemed now to play itself, he and his fellow actors aiding it with their parts. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Over the years, the central government has developed core renewable energy technologies by supporting research generated by the state-run institutes and aiding local governments' projects. (references) | |
U.S. engineering companies are 50 percent more productive than local engineering companies and operate at half the cost of Venezuelan engineering firms, all of which gives them a competitive edge. However, a Venezuelan partner could increase the competitiveness of a U.S. company by aiding the latter enter a market that favors local operators. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Switzerland | In August 2000, the umbrella organization of NGO's concerned with aiding refugees, Swiss Aid to Refugees, criticized the Federal Government for some forced repatriations of Kosovo refugees that they termed excessively harsh and inhuman. (references) |
Economic History | Azerbaijan | The United States is committed to aiding Azerbaijan in its transition to democracy and formation of an open market economy. (references) |
Bahrain | The penalty for money laundering is a seven year jail term and a maximum fine of USD 2.65 million on committing, aiding, or abetting money-laundering. (references) | |
Human Rights | United Kingdom | While over 20 suspects were detained, only 1, Colm Murphy, was charged (for aiding and abetting the crime). (references) |
Panama | In December 2000, Indian community leader Francisco Olivo complained that two police officers in Darien tortured an Embera Indian after he was arrested and accused of aiding Colombian rebel groups. (references) | |
Colombia | The Government granted the ICRC access to monitor approximately 3,900 cases of imprisoned citizens accused of terrorism, rebellion, or aiding and abetting the insurgency, which are crimes punishable under law. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Norway | Authorities charged three young persons with aiding and abetting voluntary manslaughter for their role in the killing; all three were linked to a neo-nazi organization. (references) |
Political Economy | Burma | While there is no evidence that the government is involved on an institutional level in the drug trade, there are continuing reports that corrupt army personnel may be aiding traffickers and profiting from the trade. (references) |
Travel | Turkey | If discovered, individuals could be arrested for aiding and abetting the PKK-a serious charge. (references) |
Worker Rights | Georgia | There are no Government programs to help victims; however, there are several NGO's involved in combating trafficking and aiding its victims. (references) |
France | Prostitution is legal; however, the law prohibits pimping, including aiding, assisting, maintaining, or profiting from the prostitution of another, and the public solicitation of another person for the purpose of inciting sexual relations also is illegal. (references) | |
New Zealand | The law does not address trafficking in persons specifically, and the applicable related crime, aiding and abetting the breach of immigration regulations, carries relatively light penalties; however, there were no reports that persons were trafficked to, from, or within the country during the year. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The interests of the nation would doubtless be better served by avoiding all such indirect modes of aiding particular objects. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | On the contrary, the war has demonstrated how effectively we can organize our productive system and develop the potential abilities of our people by aiding the efforts of private enterprise. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | While we must remain committed to aiding and assisting those who come to our shores, at the same time we must uphold our immigration and refugee policies and provide adequate enforcement resources. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We are for aiding our allies by sharing our material blessings with nations which share our fundamental beliefs, but we are against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "AIDING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.78% of the time. "AIDING" is used about 90 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) | 97.78% | 88 | 35,154 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 90 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "AIDING": aiding and abetting ♦ aiding suicide. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "AIDING": grant-aiding. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "AIDING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | помагане (assistance, helping). (various references) | ||||||||||
Chinese | 援助 (Aid, Aided). (various references) | ||||||||||
Danish | erhvervsforberedende kursus (course aiding the transition between school and working life). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | cursus voor de overgang van school naar bedrijf (course aiding the transition between school and working life). (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | auttaminen (helping). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | processus de génération assistée de messages (process aiding the generation of messages), incitation et assistance au suicide (aiding suicide), cours de transition école/travail (course aiding the transition between school and working life). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | helfend (assisting, helping). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | μαθήματα διασύνδεσης σχολείου-εργασίας (course aiding the transition between school and working life). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | processo che coadiuva la generazione di messaggi (process aiding the generation of messages), istigazione e aiuto al suicidio (aiding suicide, complicity in suicide, incitement to commit or assistance with suicide), corso di collegamento scuola-lavoro (course aiding the transition between school and working life). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 助成 (assistance, assisting, fostering). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | じょせい (assistance, assisting, backing, encouragement, female voice, fostering, one's son-in-law, reinforcements, schoolgirl, woman). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 원조 (Aid, Assistance, Assisting). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | cur couyr, coyrt couyr. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | aidingay proceso que ayuda a la generación de mensajes (process aiding the generation of messages). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "AIDING": braiding, counterraiding, raiding, unbraiding, upbraiding. (additional references) | |
Words containing "AIDING": braidings. (additional references) | |
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"AIDING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aahing, Acidini, Adeang, ading, Adinia, Aidin, aining, alding, Amidini, anding, Ardinghi, asiding, audin, auding, avidin, Ayidan, iating, iding, ioding, maiding, saiding. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "AIDING" (pronounced ā"ding) |
| 4 | ā" d i ng | blockading, braiding, cascading, crusading, degrading, evading, fading, grading, invading, lading, masquerading, parading, persuading, pervading, raiding, serenading, shading, trading, upgrading, wading. |
| 3 | -d i ng | abiding, abounding, acceding, according, adding, affording, alluding, amending, applauding, apprehending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, banding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handholding, handing, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, joyriding, kidding, kneading, landholding, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, pending, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, railroading, reading, rebounding, rebuilding, receding, recommending, recording, Redding, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, sending, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unloading, unwinding, unyielding, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, warding, wedding, weeding, 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 "a-d-g-i-i-n" | |
-2 letters: agin, dang, ding, gadi, gain, inia, nidi. | |
-3 letters: aid, ain, and, ani, dag, dig, din, gad, gan, gid, gin, nag. | |
-4 letters: ad, ag, ai, an, id, in, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-i-i-n" | |
+1 letter: abiding, dialing, gliadin, gonidia, raiding, siganid. | |
+2 letters: admiring, admixing, advising, auditing, avoiding, braiding, dairying, deairing, dialings, dialling, dilating, draining, gainsaid, gliadine, gliadins, gonidial, guanidin, ideating, imagined, invading, iodating, radioing, siganids. | |
+3 letters: abidingly, abridging, abuilding, addicting, adjoining, admitting, anodizing, braidings, brigading, cyaniding, daikering, dairyings, derailing, detailing, detaining, deviating, diademing, diagnosis, diallings, dialoging, dialysing, dialyzing, diapering, dictating, digitalin, dignitary, disabling, disarming, discasing, diseasing, dismaying, disrating, dissaving, dualizing, gliadines, glissandi, granitoid, guanidine, guanidins, hagriding, indignant, ingrained, islanding, kidnaping, magnified, mediating, misadding, misdating, ordaining, oxidating, radiating, rawhiding, redialing. | |
+4 letters: abdicating, acidifying, adhibiting, admiringly, anglicised, anglicized, antidoting, audiogenic, badinaging, brigandine, coadmiring, damnifying, dandifying, datelining, decimating, declaiming, dedicating, defilading, depainting, depilating, deraigning, despairing, destaining, detraining, diagenesis, diagenetic, diagnosing, diagnostic, diagraming, dialoguing, diamonding, diapausing, digitalins, diplomaing, disabusing, disavowing, disbanding, disbarring, discanting, discarding, disdaining, disgracing, dismasting, disparting, displacing, displaying, disseating, dissuading, distaining, distancing, distasting, disvaluing, divagating, divagation, dominating, dynamiting, enfilading, eradiating, faradising, faradizing, fungicidal, gadolinite, gadolinium, glissading, grainfield, gramicidin, guanidines, hardwiring, headlining, holidaying, idealising, idealizing, impleading, indagating, indagation, indicating, indurating, instigated, intaglioed, inundating, invaliding, iodinating, jaundicing, kidnapping, lapidating, lipreading, marinading, mediagenic, medicating, meditating, misaligned, misdealing, misdialing, misdrawing, misgrading, misleading, misreading, niggarding, originated, palisading, poniarding, pyramiding, radicating, radiogenic, redbaiting, redialling, reimagined, reinvading, signalised, signalized, unbraiding, upbraiding, validating. | |
+5 letters: accrediting, acidulating, admonishing, advertising, advertizing, airdropping, antidumping, auditioning, backsliding, barricading, bediapering, blandishing, brandishing, brigandines, broadsiding, cardiogenic, coadmitting, daylighting, deadlifting, deaminating, defoliating, delineating, denazifying, denigrating, denigration, denigrative, desiccating, designating, designation, designative, diabolizing, diagnostics, diagonalize, diagramming, diamagnetic, diazotizing, diffracting, dignitaries, disagreeing, disallowing, disarmingly, disarraying, discharging, disclaiming, disengaging, disfavoring, dislocating, dismantling, dismayingly, disorganize, disparaging, dispatching, displanting, displeasing, dispraising, dispreading, dissipating, distracting, distraining, divagations, dogmatizing, dovetailing, dramatising, dramatizing, duplicating, elucidating, eradicating, extraditing, feudalizing, fundraising, gadolinites, gadoliniums, ganglioside, gelatinized, grainfields, gramicidins, grandiosity, grecianized, handpicking, handrailing, handwriting, indagations, indignantly, indignation, ingrainedly, ingratiated, ingratitude, invaginated, invigilated, invigorated, irradiating, landsliding, lapidifying, lipreadings, liquidating, madrigalian, maledicting, manifolding, misadapting, misadvising, misawarding, misbranding, misdiagnose, misdialling, misguidance, mishandling, mispleading, pathfinding, predicating, railroading, randomizing, readdicting, readmitting, remediating, reordaining, repudiating, reradiating, sandwiching, syndicating, undeviating, unirrigated, unmagnified, unmitigated, vaginitides, vandalising, vandalizing, videotaping, vindicating, wildcatting, windjamming, windlassing, wiredrawing, withdrawing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 49 44 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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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01001001 01000100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A I D I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0049 0044 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)354338434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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