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Definition: Baiting |
BaitingNoun1. Harassment especially of a tethered animal. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "baiting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | The provision of food plants(bait-crop, bait cover), shelter, water or other essentials, or the spreading of food, so as to attract animals to the area, e. g. for harvesting them or controlling their numbers, or to modify their normal routine. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Baiting frequently takes place on IRC or instant messaging. The chat logs are then typically posted on the world wide web.
Some of these pranks have grown into Internet phenomena. For example, Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka from the popular Something Awful site engaged in a long ICQ session (titled "Space Robot Bonanza") where he talked to a gullible user about "space robots" who supposedly "protected" humans from the "terrible secret of space" by pushing them down stairs. This was later turned into a song by The Laziest Men on Mars, with lyrics such as:
Not to be confused with bait and switch.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Baiting."
Crosswords: Baiting |
| English words defined with "baiting": Bear baiting, Bearhound, Bull baiting, bulldog ♦ Cynarctomachy ♦ English bulldog ♦ Inescation ♦ To stave and tail. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "baiting": MACHINE SNELLER ♦ sex attractant, squid jig. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | His Baiting Beauty (1950) Dog Baiting and Fighting (1902) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Baiting a hook!.Credit: Unknown. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Thomas B. Macaulay | The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. |
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Worker Rights | Indonesia | The military also employs baiting tactics: infiltrating workers' ranks and encouraging protests or worker actions, and in some cases attempting to provoke a violent worker action, to which the military then forcefully responds. (references) |
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| "Baiting" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 74.42% of the time. "Baiting" is used about 43 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) | 74.42% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Noun (singular) | 20.93% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 43 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "baiting": baiting place ♦ Bear baiting ♦ Bull baiting. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "baiting": baiting-and-switching. | |
Ending with "baiting": pre-baiting. | |
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| 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 |
bear baiting | 37 |
termite baiting | 13 |
baiting bull | 9 |
baiting bear black | 8 |
baiting hook | 8 |
baiting exterra termite | 6 |
baiting shrimp | 6 |
baiting colony termite | 5 |
baiting hollow | 4 |
baiting catfish | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "baiting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 引诱 (Alluring, Baited, inducement). (various references) | |
Danish | udlaegning af lokkemad, indtagning (bating, tapering). (various references) | |
Dutch | minderen (bating, decrease, diminish, tapering), lokken (attract, decoy, lure, teasing), aanlokken (attract, draw). (various references) | |
Finnish | syötin asettaminen, kaventaminen (bating, tapering). (various references) | |
French | diminution (bating), appâtement. (various references) | |
German | ködernd (decoying, luring). (various references) | |
Greek | σμίκρυνση (bating, miniaturization, reduction, shortening, tapering), μάζεμα (bating, cissing, crawling, furl, lifting, picking, pickup, shrinkage, tapering), παγίδευσις. (various references) | |
Italian | sematura (bating, tapering), pasturazione. (various references) | |
Korean | 혹 (lure, Luring, Seducing, temptation, tempting). (various references) | |
Manx | cur moddee er (bait as animals), cur bite er, brasnee (affronting, aggravating, insulting, irritating, jarring), bitey (bait). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aitingbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | reduzir (Bate, bating, boil down, curtail, cut, decrease, diminish, lessen, minify, minimize, reduce, restrict, retrench, scale, scrimp, shorten, sink, skimp, slash, tapering, to reduce, weaken, wear down, write off), habitat (habitat, site, station), amatar (bating, tapering). (various references) | |
Russian | травля барсуков собаками (badger-baiting). (various references) | |
Spanish | reducción (abatement, abridgement, abridgment, adaptor, bating, contraction, curtailment, cutback, depletion, discount, mark down, narrowing, rebate, reducer, reducer fitting, reducing socket, reduction, retrenchment, setting, shortening, tapering), menguado (bating, fashioned, tapering), cebadura. (various references) | |
Swedish | utläggning av lockbete, hets (bustle), "beting". (various references) | |
Turkish | rahatsız etme (annoyance, botheration, disturbing, irritating), mola (bait, break, breather, breathing space, intermission, pause, recess, slack, stopover, time out), konaklama (stopover), kızdırma (aggravation, aggro, annoyance, making angry, making hot, provocation), canını sıkma. (various references) | |
Ukranian | цькування (chase), зупинка на відпочинок, привал (bait, encampment). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự suỵt cho khua lửng ra khỏi hang (badger-baiting, badger-drawing), quán trọ dọc đường (baiting place). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "baiting": bearbaiting, bullbaiting, rebaiting, redbaiting. (additional references) | |
Words containing "baiting": bearbaitings, bullbaitings. (additional references) | |
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"Baiting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baiking, bairing, baiten, banteng, Bantung, batian, beiging, biatin, biteing, bitings, kaitung. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "baiting" (pronounced bā"ting) |
| 5 | b ā" t i ng | abating, debating. |
| 4 | -ā" t i ng | annotating, awaiting, berating, crating, creating, dating, deflating, elating, equating, grating, hating, inflating, innovating, mating, misstating, negating, plating, rating, reinstating, relating, restating, sedating, skating, stating, translating, updating, waiting, weighting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, accosting, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, adjusting, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, arresting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, assisting, associating, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, babysitting, backbiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, casting, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, composting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consisting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crediting, cresting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, daunting, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflecting, defrosting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, delisting, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disgusting, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, dusting, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, enunciating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, everlasting, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, existing, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflicting, infuriating, ingesting, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, investing, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, laminating, lasting, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, listing, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, lusting, malting, mandating, manifesting, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, neglecting, negotiating, nesting, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, posting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, reacting, reactivating, readjusting, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, recasting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, rusting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, toasting, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, wanting, wasting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-g-i-i-n-t" | |
-1 letter: bating, biting. | |
-2 letters: binit, giant, tibia. | |
-3 letters: agin, anti, bait, bang, bani, bint, gain, gait, gnat, inia, inti, tain, tang, ting. | |
-4 letters: ain, ait, ani, ant, bag, ban, bat, big, bin, bit, gab, gan, gat, gib, gin, git, nab, nag, nib, nit, tab, tag, tan, tin. | |
-5 letters: ab, ag, ai, an, at, ba, bi, in, it, na, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-g-i-i-n-t" | |
+1 letter: habiting. | |
+2 letters: baptising, baptizing, ignitable, librating, obtaining, obviating, rabbiting, rebaiting, vibrating. | |
+3 letters: abdicating, abiogenist, abstaining, adhibiting, antibusing, babbitting, backbiting, beatifying, bepainting, bloviating, bobtailing, botanising, botanizing, bratticing, brigantine, cohabiting, iceboating, incubating, inhabiting, intangible, intangibly, intubating, jubilating, liberating, obligating, obligation, redbaiting, sibilating. | |
+4 letters: abiogenists, abominating, abstricting, ambitioning, arbitraging, arbitrating, attributing, babysitting, backbitings, backfitting, backlisting, bacterizing, bearbaiting, beautifying, bifurcating, bombinating, brachiating, brecciating, brigantines, brominating, brutalising, brutalizing, bullbaiting, calibrating, fabricating, habituating, hibernating, iceboatings, imbricating, inbreathing, inebriating, intangibles, langbeinite, libertinage, lubricating, obligations, rebaptizing, reobtaining, rubricating, sailboating, stabilizing, stablishing, sublimating, tangibility, tiebreaking, tribulating. | |
+5 letters: abbreviating, absolutizing, antigambling, antiglobulin, automobiling, backlighting, bastardising, bastardizing, bastinadoing, bearbaitings, bestializing, billingsgate, blacklisting, boatbuilding, bullbaitings, catabolizing, debilitating, deliberating, diabetogenic, establishing, fibrillating, frangibility, habilitating, ignitability, infibulating, langbeinites, libertinages, metabolizing, navigability, obliterating, obnubilating, pregnability, reinhabiting, sailboatings, trailblazing, transcribing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 69 74 69 6E 67 |
| 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)01000010 01100001 01101001 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a i t i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0069 0074 0069 006E 0067 |
| 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)36677586758073 |
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