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Definition: Balding |
BaldingAdjective1. Getting bald. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "balding" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1960. (references) |
Crosswords: Balding |
| English words defined with "balding": bald. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Wow! A building with two Beldings, one of whom is balding. (Saved by the Bell; writing credit: Ana Maria Moretzsohn) Kwijybo. A big dumb balding North American ape. With no chin. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Dude, I'm I'm balding. (Tenacious D; writing credit: Masato Ochi) No longer is he a balding useless coward who would rather run than fight. (The 10th Kingdom; writing credit: Simon Moore) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "Balding" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Balding" is used about 176 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 176 | 23,410 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "balding" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Balding | Last name | 400 | 23,239 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "balding": balding-trained. | |
| 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 |
balding | 185 |
balding cure | 68 |
man hair style balding | 26 |
balding woman | 21 |
balding hair style | 12 |
balding man | 10 |
rebecca balding | 8 |
female balding | 7 |
male balding | 7 |
balding bit tom | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "balding"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Dutch | kalen (be balding). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kalviĝi (be balding). (various references) | |
German | kahl werdend. (various references) | |
Greek | που φαλακραίνει. (various references) | |
Hebrew | "תקרחות. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kopaszodó. (various references) | |
Indonesian | mulai botak. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 抜け上がる (to be balding in the front, to have a receding hairline). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぬけあがる (to be balding in the front, to have a receding hairline). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aldingbay.(various references) | |
Russian | лысеющий. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | proćelav. (various references) | |
Spanish | que se está quedando calvo. (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งมีหัวล้าน. (various references) | |
Turkish | saçları dökülen, kelleşen. (various references) | |
Ukranian | лисіючий. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bắt đầu hói. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Balding" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alding, balden, Baldini, Baldino, Baldion, Baldon, Baldrige, Balduin, Baldung, balint, Balmin, Balsdean, Baoding, baudain, beadling, Bildung, Bilsdean, blading, bleding, Boldrini, bulding. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "balding" (pronounced bô"lding) |
| 5 | -ô" l d i ng | scalding. |
| 4 | -l d i ng | beholding, building, Fielding, folding, gilding, handholding, heralding, holding, landholding, Melding, molding, moulding, nonbuilding, overbuilding, rebuilding, scaffolding, scolding, shielding, shipbuilding, unfolding, unyielding, upholding, welding, wielding, Wilding, withholding, yielding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | abiding, abounding, acceding, according, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, amending, applauding, apprehending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, banding, bedding, beheading, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, 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, finding, flooding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handing, heading, heeding, herding, hiding, hoarding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, 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, receding, recommending, recording, Redding, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, 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, unloading, unwinding, upgrading, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, wending, winding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-g-i-l-n" | |
-1 letter: baling, lading, ligand. | |
-2 letters: algid, algin, align, binal, blain, bland, blind, gland, liang, ligan, linga, nidal. | |
-3 letters: agin, anil, bail, bald, band, bang, bani, bind, blin, dang, dial, ding, gadi, gain, gild, glad, glia, glib, laid, lain, land, lang, ling, nail. | |
-4 letters: aid, ail, ain, alb, and, ani, bad, bag, bal, ban, bid, big, bin, dab, dag, dal, dib, dig, din, gab, gad, gal, gan, gib, gid, gin, lab, lad, lag, lib, lid, lin, nab, nag, nib, nil. | |
-5 letters: ab, ad, ag, ai, al, an, ba, bi, id, in, la, li, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-g-i-l-n" | |
+1 letter: blindage, dabbling. | |
+2 letters: abidingly, abuilding, beladying, belauding, blindages, dabblings, disabling, drabbling. | |
+3 letters: bedabbling, bedazzling, begladding, blockading, boldfacing. | |
+4 letters: backsliding, bedraggling, blandishing, diabolizing, diagnosable, landlubbing. | |
+5 letters: backpedaling, ballhandling, billboarding, blackbirding, boardsailing, boatbuilding, childbearing, clapboarding, debilitating, deliberating, descrambling, diagnoseable, roadblocking, sailboarding, sandblasting, speedballing, unbridgeable. | |
| 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 6C 64 69 6E 67 |
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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 01101100 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a l d i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 006C 0064 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)36677870758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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