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Definition: AVOIDING |
AVOIDINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Avoid |
Date "AVOIDING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Avoidance | Adjective: unsought, unattempted; avoiding; Verb: neutral, shy of; (unwilling); elusive, evasive; fugitive, runaway; shy, wild. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You can't keep avoiding her. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) Target is not taking avoiding action, Capitain! (Firefox; writing credit: Craig Thomas; Alex Lasker) This is more enjoyable than my average day reading philosophy, avoiding gang rape in the washrooms though, it's less of a problem these days maybe I'm losing my sex appeal. (The Rock; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook) Why continually repeat this cycle? Simply to survive by avoiding the weaknesses of an unchanging system. (Kkaku kidtai; writing credit: Kazunori It; Masamune Shirow) Avoiding a subpoena is not liking to travel. (Baby Blues; writing credit: Neal Boushell; Leonard Dick) | |
Lyrics | I've been avoiding things I'm missing (Mental Picture; performing artist: Jon Secada) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Avoiding Armageddon (2003) On Avoiding Extinction (1997) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | At Tulagi, Solomon Islands, with a damaged bow, 31 July 1943. She had collided with USS Woodworth (DD-460) while avoiding torpedoes during the Battle of Kolombangara on 13 July 1943. Credit: NAVY. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Jean Valjean advanced, carefully avoiding the furniture. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Avoiding mosquito bites is another form of prevention. (references) | |
Treatment is basically avoiding the food(s) after it is identified. (references) | ||
Preparing food in a certain way or avoiding certain foods may help other people. (references) | ||
Business | Special diabetes footwear is very important for healing the foot diseases related to diabetes and avoiding complications. (references) | |
The presence of a Thai equity partner can also be beneficial in avoiding labor issues, ranging from cultural "faux pas" to anti-foreigner sentiment. (references) | ||
Suppliers are commercializing modifications, thus allowing brush wear to be detected, saving overall maintenance time and avoiding commutator damage. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Switzerland | The amendment is aimed at asylum seekers or foreigners who live illegally in the country and who are suspected of disturbing the public order or avoiding repatriation. (references) |
Tunisia | Like journalists, university professors indicated that they sometimes practiced self-censorship by avoiding classroom criticism of the Government or statements supportive of the An-Nahdha movement. (references) | |
China | For example, although regulations require local authorities to provide land to church groups, some local officials may try to avoid doing so by denying registration, thus avoiding the requirement to provide land. (references) | |
Economic History | Ukraine | A treaty on avoiding double taxation is close to completion. (references) |
Romania | Therefore, avoiding conflicts of any type is the best policy. (references) | |
Japan | It is important to be honest and direct, while avoiding appearing overbearing. (references) | |
Human Rights | Argentina | Liporaci resigned 2 weeks later, thus avoiding the impeachment hearing. (references) |
Seychelles | Police occasionally detained individuals on a Friday or Saturday in order to allow for a longer period of detention without charge, thereby avoiding compliance with the Constitution's 24-hour "charge or release" provision. (references) | |
Minorities | Argentina | Other minorities have reported avoiding buses and other crowded public facilities out of fear of being subjected to racial harassment. (references) |
Political Economy | ROMANIA | The Government of Romania succeeded in avoiding default in 1999 without resorting to roll-over, and since then has increased foreign exchange reserves. (references) |
Trade | Netherlands | This stems, in part, from the traditional Dutch emphasis on achieving consensus and avoiding conflict in this small and densely populated country. (references) |
Guatemala | The FMP also has tightened requirements for reclassifying non-performing assets, for information disclosure, and for avoiding lending to directors and owners. (references) | |
Travel | Honduras | Personal relationships are frequently more important than in the United States in creating and maintaining business ties and avoiding disputes. (references) |
Japan | Japanese society is complex, structured, hierarchical and group-oriented with strong emphasis on maintaining harmony and avoiding surface confrontation. (references) | |
Argentina | It is recommended, however, that due caution be exercised when traveling about the city, including avoiding wearing expensive jewelry or carrying large amounts of cash. (references) | |
Women | Russia | Employers prefer to hire men, thereby saving on maternity and childcare costs and avoiding the perceived unreliability that accompanies the hiring of women with small children. (references) |
Worker Rights | Chile | The modifications also greatly increase fines for violating immunities enjoyed by union leaders or artificially dividing up a company for the purpose of avoiding provisions in the code or resisting unionization. (references) |
Haiti | They were given ultimatums to rally behind the FL. Jacques Pierre, Secretary General of the Confederation of Haitian Workers (KOTA), and his family abandoned their home and spent much of the year avoiding FL militants. (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. |
Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | We have happily maintained a policy of avoiding all interference with European affairs. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "AVOIDING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.99% of the time. "AVOIDING" is used about 1,045 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) | 97.99% | 1,024 | 7,248 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.34% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.29% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.29% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 0.1% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,045 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "AVOIDING": tax avoiding. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "AVOIDING": crowd-avoiding, marriage-avoiding, pain-avoiding, predator-avoiding, risk-avoiding, self-avoiding, tax-avoiding. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "AVOIDING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 避免 (AVERT, Averted, Averting, Avoid, Avoided). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | at fremme en rationel udnyttelse af de naturlige ressourcer paa en saadan maade,at hensynsloes udtoemning undgaas (to promote a policy of using natural resources rationally and avoiding their unconsidered exhaustion), vendespor (avoiding line, loop line), overfoerelse udfra et mindre antal basispunkter,som er indbyrdes strengt forbundne,saaledes at man undgaar ophobninger af fejl,som fremkaldes af kaedeoverfoerelser (setting out based on a few strictly interrelated reference points, thus avoiding cumulation of errors due to many successive measurements), denne egenskab udnyttes ved svovlholdige automatstaal,hvor varm-bearbejdeligheden forbedres ved en homogeniseringsgloedning,saa varmrevner undgaas (this property is made use of in sulphur-containing free machining steels in which a homogenizing anneal improves hot-workability by avoiding the hot-shortness problem). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vrij kruisende keerlus (avoiding line, loop line), van deze eigenschap wordt bij zwavelhoudend automatenstaal gebruik gemaakt,waar homogeen-gloeien de smeedbaarheid verbetert doordat het optreden van warmbrosheid wordt vermeden (this property is made use of in sulphur-containing free machining steels in which a homogenizing anneal improves hot-workability by avoiding the hot-shortness problem), ontwijkingsgedrag (avoidance reaction, avoiding reaction), maatuitzetting uitgaande van slechts enkele hoofdmeetpunten welke onderling nauwkeurig aan elkaar zijn gekoppeld,zodat een cumulatie van fouten van achter elkaar te verrichten maatuitzettingen wordt vermeden (setting out based on a few strictly interrelated reference points, thus avoiding cumulation of errors due to many successive measurements), het bevorderen van een rationeel beleid bij het ontginnen van de natuurlijke hulpbronnen,waardoor een niet verantwoorde uitputting daarvan wordt voorkomen (to promote a policy of using natural resources rationally and avoiding their unconsidered exhaustion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | välttämisreaktio (avoidance reaction, avoiding reaction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | évitant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vermeidend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | το να αποφεύγει κανείς. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | riporti a partire da elementi di riferimento poco numerosi e rigorosamente collegati fra loro evitando l'accumularsi di errori che comportano i riporti successivi a catena (setting out based on a few strictly interrelated reference points, thus avoiding cumulation of errors due to many successive measurements), Questa propriet viene utilizzata negli acciai automatici allo zolfo, nei quali una ricottura di diffusione, evitando il formarsi di fragilit a caldo, migliora la forgiabilit (this property is made use of in sulphur-containing free machining steels in which a homogenizing anneal improves hot-workability by avoiding the hot-shortness problem), promuovere una politica di impiego razionale delle risorse naturali evitandone l'esaurimento inconsiderato (to promote a policy of using natural resources rationally and avoiding their unconsidered exhaustion), la reazione di allontanamento (avoidance reaction, avoiding reaction), girone (avoiding line, loop line), comportamento di allontanamento (avoidance reaction, avoiding reaction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 李下に '正さず (avoiding the appearance of evil, don't straighten your crown under a pear tree). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | りかにか"むり'た さず (avoiding the appearance of evil, don't straighten your crown under a pear tree). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 기" (Evading, Evasion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | avoidingay reacção de evitamento (avoidance reaction, avoiding reaction), promover uma política de exploração racional dos recursos naturais,de forma a evitar o seu esgotamento imponderado (to promote a policy of using natural resources rationally and avoiding their unconsidered exhaustion), esta propriedade é utilizada para os aços de corte com enxofre,para os quais um recozimento de homogeneização melhora a aptidão forjagem evitando o fenómeno de fragilidade ao rubro (this property is made use of in sulphur-containing free machining steels in which a homogenizing anneal improves hot-workability by avoiding the hot-shortness problem). (various references) seachnadh (shunning). (various references) vía en raqueta (avoiding line, loop line), reacción de evitación (avoidance reaction, avoiding reaction), raqueta de vía (avoiding line, loop line), promover una política de explotación racional de los recursos naturales, evitando su agotamiento irreflexivo (to promote a policy of using natural resources rationally and avoiding their unconsidered exhaustion), maniobrar con suficiente antelación (avoiding action), esta propiedad se utiliza para los aceros automáticos al azufre, para los que un recocido de homogeneidad mejora la forjabilidad, evitando el fenómeno de la actitud en caliente (this property is made use of in sulphur-containing free machining steels in which a homogenizing anneal improves hot-workability by avoiding the hot-shortness problem). (various references) undvikande (avoidance, elusive, evasion, evasive, evation, oblique). (various references) kaçınma (abstention, abstinence, avoidance, bolt, elusion, evasion, forbearance, sidestep, sparing), önleme (arrest, circumvention, containment, frustration, hindrance, interception, preclusion, prevention, suppression). (various references) уникнення (avoidance, elusion, riddance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Corinthians Chapter 8, Verse 20 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Stellomenoi touto mh tiV hmaV mwmhshtai en th adrothti tauth th diakonoumenh uf hmwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Devitantes hoc ne quis nos vituperet in hac plenitudine quae ministratur a nobis |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Eschewynge this thing, that no man blame vs in this plente, that is mynystrid of vs to the glorye of the Lord. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | For thys we eschue that eny man shuld rebuke vs in this plenteous distribucion that is ministred by vs |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And so that no man might be able to say anything against us in the business of this giving which has been put into our hands: |
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| Language | 2 Corinthians Chapter 8, Verse 20 |
| Cebuano | Among gipanagan-an nga walay tawong makapasangil kanamo mahitungod niining dakung amot nga among ginadumala, |
| Chinese | 這 就 免 得 有 人 我 們 " 的 捐 銀 很 多 、 就 挑 我 們 的 不 是 。 |
| Croatian | kako bismo izbjegli da nas tko ne prekori zbog ovog obilja kojim raspolažemo. |
| Danish | idet vi undgå dette, at nogen skulde kunne laste os i Anledning af denne rige Hjælp, som besørges af os; |
| Dutch | Dit verhoedende, dat ons niemand moge lasteren in dezen overvloed, die van ons wordt bediend; |
| Finnish | Näin me teemme, ettei kukaan pääsisi moittimaan meitä mistään, mikä koskee tätä runsasta avustusta, joka on meidän toimitettavanamme. |
| French | Nous agissons ainsi, afin que personne ne nous blâme au sujet de cette abondante collecte, laquelle nous donnons nos soins; |
| German | Also verhüten wir, daß uns nicht jemand übel nachreden möge solcher reichen Steuer halben, die durch uns ausgerichtet wird; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kami sangat berhati-hati supaya jangan ada orang yang menyalahkan kami dalam hal menyampaikan sumbangan yang besar ini. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | hendak menegahkan supaya jangan orang mencela kami di dalam hal pemberian besar yang kami pegang itu. |
| Latvian | Tâ mçs izvairâmies, lai kâds mûs nenopeltu bagâtîgo dâvanu dçï, ko esam savâkuði; |
| Maori | Me te tupato ano, kei whai kupu tetahi tangata ki a matou mo enei taonga maha e whakahaerea nei e matou: |
| Norwegian | for derved undgår vi at nogen skal kunne laste oss for noget som vedkommer denne rike gave som kommer i stand ved vår tjeneste, |
| Rumanian | Kn chipul acesta, vrem ca nimeni sq nu ne defaime cu privire la acest belwug de ajutoare, de care kngrijim. |
| Russian | ПУФЕТЕЗБСУШ, ЮФП'Щ ОБН ОЕ П"ЧЕТЗОХФШУС ПФ ЛПЗП ОБТЕЛБОЙА ТЙ ФБЛПН П'ЙМЙЙ ТЙОПЫЕОЙК, ЧЧЕТСЕНЩИ ОБЫЕНХ УМХЦЕОЙА; |
| Shuar | Iis, ju kuit ii jukittiajnia nu, Núkap asamtai, aents tsanumprutmawaraij tusar, Titiujai tura ju shuarjaisha wéaji. |
| Spanish | evitando que nadie nos desacredite con respecto a este abundante donativo que administramos. |
| Swahili | Tunataka kuepa lawama zinazoweza kutokea kuhusu usimamizi wetu juu ya zawadi hii karimu. |
| Swedish | Därmed vilja vi förebygga att man talar illa om oss, i vad som rör det rikliga sammanskott som nu genom vår försorg kommer till stånd. |
| Uma | Patuju-kai mpohubui ompi' -ta to hadua toii tilou dohe Titus, apa' doko' kipelompehi bona neo' mpai' ria to mpo'uli' uma monoa' po'ingku-kai hi pongkeni-kai pewai' to bohe toi. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"AVOIDING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: avidin, avoidnik. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "AVOIDING" (pronounced uvoy"ding) |
| 5 | -v oy" d i ng | voiding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | abiding, abounding, acceding, according, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, amending, applauding, apprehending, ascending, astounding, attending, awarding, backsliding, balding, banding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, 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, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, 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, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, 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, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, 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, serenading, shading, 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, trading, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unloading, unwinding, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, upstanding, vending, wading, 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-o-v" | |
-1 letter: gonidia, voiding. | |
-2 letters: aiding, avidin, diving, ganoid, indigo. | |
-3 letters: avion, avoid, danio, dingo, divan, doing, donga, gonad, gonia, iodin, oidia, viand. | |
-4 letters: agin, agio, agon, avid, dago, dang, ding, diva, dona, dong, gadi, gain, goad, inia, naoi, nidi, nodi, nova, vagi, vain, vang, viga, vina, vino, void. | |
-5 letters: ado, ago, aid, ain, and, ani, avo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-i-i-n-o-v" | |
+2 letters: disavowing, divagation. | |
+3 letters: disfavoring, divagations, dovetailing, invigorated, videotaping. | |
+4 letters: devocalizing, disapproving. | |
+5 letters: reinvigorated. | |
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