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Definitions: Blaring |
BlaringAdjective1. Unpleasantly loud and penetrating; "the blaring noise of trumpets"; "shut our ears against the blasting music from his car radio". Noun1. A loud harsh or strident noise. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blaring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
Synonyms: BlaringSynonyms: blasting (adj), blare (n), cacophony (n), clamor (n), din (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Blaring |
| English words defined with "blaring": blasting, Braying. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "blaring": troglodyte mode. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | How can I think with that awful racket blaring from your mouth? (Mission Hill; writing credit: Aaron Ehasz; Andrew Kreisberg) | |
Lyrics | To see him walkin' around wit his headphones blaring (Sing For The Moment; performing artist: EMINEM) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | Ding; ring; big; blaring; blatant; blustering; boisterous; booming; cacophonous; clamorous; crashing; deafening; deep; ear-piercing; ear-splitting; emphatic; forte; full; full-mouthed; fulminating; heavy; high-sounding; intense; loud-voiced; lusty; obstre. | | Clamor; clamoring; blare; blaring; blatant; blustering; boisterous; booming; cacophonous; clamorous; crashing; deafening; deep; ear-piercing; ear-splitting; emphatic; forte; full; full-mouthed; fulminating; heavy; high-sounding; intense; loud-voiced; lust. |
| White noise; shhhh; no signal; out of service; off-air; blaring. | | Alert; shrill; acute; argute; blaring; blatant; cacophonous; clanging; clangorous; deafening; discordant; ear-piercing; ear-splitting; harsh; high; metallic; noisy; penetrating; piercing; piping; raucous; screeching; sharp; strident; thin; treble. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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Health | Minimize distractions, such as a blaring radio, whenever possible. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Blaring" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 86.27% of the time. "Blaring" is used about 51 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) | 86.27% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 13.73% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 51 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "blaring": soul-blaring. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "blaring"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 发嘟嘟声 (Blared). (various references) | ||||
Finnish | pärinä (buzzing, rattle). (various references) | ||||
German | schmetternd. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | aringblay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Blaring" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abolarin, balrog, Balzarini, belering, Bellarmin, blading, blairing, blarant, blarings, blarn, blasing, Blorenge, bloring, blurbing, boaring, laryng. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blaring" (pronounced ble"ring) |
| 5 | -l e" r i ng | declaring, flaring, glaring. |
| 4 | -e" r i ng | airing, baring, bearing, caring, chairing, comparing, daring, despairing, haring, herring, impairing, overbearing, pairing, paring, preparing, repairing, scaring, sharing, snaring, sparing, squaring, staring, swearing, tearing, uncaring, unsparing, Waring, wearing. |
| 3 | -r i ng | acquiring, adhering, admiring, adoring, alluring, appearing, aspiring, assuring, barring, bioengineering, boring, charring, cheering, childbearing, clearing, conspiring, curing, deploring, disappearing, domineering, during, earring, electioneering, endearing, enduring, engineering, ensuring, expiring, exploring, fearing, firing, flooring, gearing, Goring, hearing, hiring, ignoring, imploring, inspiring, insuring, interfering, jarring, jeering, luring, marring, maturing, ministering, mooring, nearing, obscuring, outpouring, overhearing, overpowering, peering, perspiring, pioneering, poring, pouring, premiering, procuring, profiteering, quiring, racketeering, rearing, reassuring, reengineering, rehearing, rehiring, restoring, retiring, roaring, scarring, scoring, searing, securing, shearing, shoring, smearing, sneering, snoring, soaring, sparring, Spearing, starring, steering, stevedoring, storing, tarring, tiring, touring, underscoring, uninspiring, veering, volunteering, warring, wiring. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-g-i-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: baling, baring. | |
-2 letters: algin, align, argil, bairn, binal, blain, brail, brain, bring, garni, glair, gnarl, grail, grain, liang, libra, ligan, linga. | |
-3 letters: abri, agin, airn, anil, aril, bail, bang, bani, barn, birl, blin, brag, bran, brig, brin, gain, garb, girl, girn, glia, glib, gnar, grab, gran, grin, lain, lair, lang, lari, liar, ling. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-g-i-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: blearing, brailing, brawling, garbling, laboring, marbling, rabbling, rambling, warbling. | |
+2 letters: barreling, brabbling, bracingly, brailling, brambling, brattling, drabbling, frangible, grabbling, ignorable, labouring, librating, marblings, ramblings. | |
+3 letters: aboriginal, balbriggan, barrelling, becrawling, belaboring, blabbering, blarneying, blathering, blattering, bulwarking, clabbering, clambering, inarguable, inarguably, integrable, liberating, parboiling, ramblingly, relabeling, scrabbling, scrambling, slabbering. | |
+4 letters: aboriginals, absorbingly, antiburglar, balbriggans, bankrolling, banteringly, beclamoring, bedraggling, beglamoring, belabouring, berascaling, bioregional, bricklaying, brutalising, brutalizing, calibrating, celebrating, elaborating, embracingly, embrangling, fireballing, impregnable, impregnably, infrangible, infrangibly, laborsaving, lawbreaking, libertinage, lubricating, marbleising, marbleizing, mislaboring, organizable, outbrawling, panbroiling, parbuckling, rebalancing, refrangible, relabelling, submarginal, subregional, talebearing, tribulating, umbrellaing, unignorable, verbalizing. | |
| 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 6C 61 72 69 6E 67 |
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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 01101100 01100001 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B l a r i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006C 0061 0072 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)36786784758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Sounds 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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