Birthing

Definitions: Birthing

Birthing

Adjective

1. Having to do with birth; "a birthing center"; "birthing counselor"; "a lying-in hospital".

Noun

1. The process of giving birth.

Synonyms: Birthing

Synonyms: lying-in (adj), birth (n), giving birth (n), parturition (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Birthing

English words defined with "birthing": alternative birthing ♦ lying-in. (references)

Specialty definitions using "birthing": Birthing Centers. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Birthing

Domain	Title
Books	An Easier Childbirth: A Mother's Guide for Birthing Normally (reference) Better Birthing with Hypnosis : Mindful Pregnancy and Easy Labor Using the LeClaire Method (reference) Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel (California Series in Public Anthropology, 2) (reference) Birthing the Sermon: Women Preachers on the Creative Process (reference) Creative Childbirth: The Leclaire Method of Easy Birthing Through Hypnosis and Rational-Intuitive Thought (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Birthing

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	[Deola Lange Cyrus observes as student nurse-midwives practice birthing techniques].Credit: National Library of Medicine.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Birthing

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Most importantly, during birthing the organisms are shed in high numbers within the amniotic fluids and the placenta. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Birthing

"Birthing" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "Birthing" is used about 18 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)	55.56%	10	111,207
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	27.78%	5	157,705
Noun (proper)	11.11%	2	245,945
Noun (singular)	5.56%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	18	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Birthing

Expressions using "birthing": alternative birthing ♦ birthing center ♦ Birthing Centers ♦ birthing stool. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Birthing

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
birthing	167	water birthing	11
birthing photo	101	birthing position	11
birthing chart chinese	98	birthing pool	10
birthing plan	61	birthing process	10
birthing picture	58	birthing stool	9
birthing center	54	birthing chart	8
birthing ball	53	birthing baby	7
birthing video	30	birthing tub	6
birthing calendar chinese	26	birthing center nh	6
birthing dog	26	birthing goat	5
birthing story	26	birthing woman	5
birthing class	24	birthing center florida	5
birthing puppy	23	birthing project	4
birthing kitten	22	at home birthing	4
birthing cat	20	birthing live video	4
birthing chair	19	birthing family	4
birthing pic	19	birthing option	4
hypno birthing	16	birthing calendar	4
birthing from within	13	horse birthing	4
child birthing	12	ancient birthing chart chinese	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Birthing

Language		Translations for "birthing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		gebärend (parturient). (various references)

Pig Latin		irthingbay

Russian		относящийся к родам. (various references)

Thai		การให้กำเนิ�". (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Birthing

Misspellings
	"Birthing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Berthengam, Birhan, birthen, brihtwig, irthing. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Birthing"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "birthing" (pronounced ber"thing)
4	-er" th i ng	unearthing, Worthing.
3	-th i ng	loathing, nothing, seething, sleuthing, something.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Birthing

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-g-h-i-i-n-r-t"
	-2 letters: biting, bright, hiring, tiring.
	-3 letters: bight, binit, birth, bring, girth, grith, iring, night, right, thing.
	-4 letters: bint, brig, brin, brit, girn, girt, grin, grit, hint, inti, nigh, ring, thin, thir, ting, trig.
	-5 letters: big, bin, bit, ghi, gib, gin, git, hin, hit, nib, nit, nth, rib, rig, rin, tin.
	Words containing the letters "b-g-h-i-i-n-r-t"
	+2 letters: blithering.
	+3 letters: brachiating, brightening, hibernating, inbreathing, prohibiting.
	+4 letters: reinhabiting.
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