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Definition: Calculating |
CalculatingAdjective1. Used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "calculating" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1644. (references) |
Synonyms: CalculatingSynonyms: calculative (adj), conniving (adj), scheming (adj), shrewd (adj). (additional references) |
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Intelligence Wisdom | Cool; cool-headed, long-headed, hardheaded, strong-headed; long-sighted, calculating, thoughtful, reflecting; solid, deep, profound. |
Numeration | Abacus, logometer, slide rule, slipstick, tallies, Napier's bones, calculating machine, difference engine, suan-pan; adding machine; cash register; electronic calculator, calculator, computer; |
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Screenplays | Their heads are full of cotton, hay, and rags. They're nothing but exasperating, irritating, vacillating, calculating, agitating, maddening and infuriating hags! (My Fair Lady; writing credit: George Bernard Shaw; Alan Jay Lerner) These days you cast rapid, calculating, sidelong glances. (Viskningar och rop; writing credit: Ingmar Bergman) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | [Children Calculating Gains In Weight].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Oscar Wilde | No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. |
Samuel Johnson | Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate. |
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Health | It would be easier to advocate for freer decision-making if the conditions for making good decisions could be met. These conditions include good information about the risks and benefits of each of various options and a clear expression of the values the client places on alternative outcomes as a basis for calculating the options that maximize the most desired events. (references) | |
Business | For software that is licensed, the contract value would be the basis for calculating applicable taxes. (references) | |
Calculating at the current price of about $100 per line, the capacity building would cost $2.8 billion. (references) | ||
The customs value, which serves as the basis for calculating the duty is derived from the so-called transaction value. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Brazil | The National Newspaper Association (ANJ) continued to press for an updated press law, noting that the existing law dates from the time of the military regime and does not establish criteria for calculating maximum fines for libel. (references) |
Economic History | Brazil | Foreign specialists in fields where Brazilians are unavailable are not counted in calculating the one-third permitted for non-Brazilians. (references) |
Romania | A new law on global income tax was passed in August 1999 and came into effect in January 2000, including non-cash benefits in the basis for calculating salary tax. (references) | |
Political Economy | PARAGUAY | Decree 235/98, later modified by Decrees 2698/99 and 8366/00, created a multiplier increasing the base value on imported beer prior to calculating excise tax. (references) |
Political Rights | Haiti | However, the CEP manipulated the results by its choice of a methodology in calculating the percentages for the determination of Senate seats, the faulty transmission of results, and the arbitrary treatment of challenges that affected the results of several races. (references) |
Trade | Australia | The first step in calculating GST is the calculation of duty against the Customs value. (references) |
Worker Rights | Moldova | A minimum of $2.50 (18 Moldovan lei) continued to be used as a basis for calculating pensions, scholarships, and fines. (references) |
Uruguay | The minimum wage, which was set in January at about $80 (1,092 pesos) per month, functions more as an index for calculating wage rates than as a true measure of minimum subsistence levels, and it would not provide a decent standard of living for a worker and family. (references) | |
Russia | Approximately 27 percent of the population have incomes below this official subsistence minimum; however, most workers receive several times the monthly minimum, and the minimum wage is essentially an accounting reference for calculating university stipends, pensions, civil service wages, and social benefits. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions. Having received an ultimatum from Austria, the Turkish Ministry met to consider it. "O servant of the Prophet," said the Sheik of the Imperial Chibouk to the Mamoosh of the Invincible Army, "how many unconquerable soldiers have we in arms?" "Upholder of the Faith," that dignitary replied after examining his memoranda, "they are in numbers as the leaves of the forest!" "And how many impenetrable battleships strike terror to the hearts of all Christian swine?" he asked the Imaum of the Ever Victorious Navy. "Uncle of the Full Moon," was the reply, "deign to know that they are as the waves of the ocean, the sands of the desert and the stars of Heaven!" For eight hours the broad brow of the Sheik of the Imperial Chibouk was corrugated with evidences of deep thought: he was calculating the chances of war. Then, "Sons of angels," he said, "the die is cast! I shall suggest to the Ulema of the Imperial Ear that he advise inaction. In the name of Allah, the council is adjourned." |
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| "Calculating" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 94.00% of the time. "Calculating" is used about 482 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) | 94% | 454 | 12,849 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.38% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.41% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.21% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 482 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "calculating": average calculating operation ♦ calculating businessman ♦ calculating machine ♦ calculating machine desk ♦ calculating politician ♦ calculating punch ♦ electric calculating machine ♦ manual calculating machine ♦ typewriter not incorporating any calculating device. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "calculating": cost-benefit-calculating, costing-calculating, pause-calculating. | |
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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 |
calculating | 168 |
calculating percentage | 73 |
calculating interest | 56 |
calculating due date | 56 |
calculating mortgage payment | 50 |
calculating gpa | 49 |
calculating square footage | 40 |
calculating mortgage | 37 |
calculating foot square | 37 |
calculating bmi | 35 |
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| Language | Translations for "calculating"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | llogaritës (calculated, computer, numerator), i matur (abstinent, canny, careful, cautious, chary, chaste, circumlocutory, circumspect, circumspective, conservative, deliberate, discreet, forehanded, gingerly, judicious, moderate, provident, prudent, reasonable, sober, staid, thoughtful, wary, well advised, well balanced). (various references) | |
Arabic | حذر (admonish, advise, alert, alertness, be careful, be wise, beware, cagey, calculation, canny, care, careful, caution, cautious, cautiousness, chariness, chary, considerate, discreet, discreetness, discretion, exhort, fabian, forewarn, guard, guarded, guarding, heedful, leery, look behind, look out, lookout, mind, on the alert, on the lookout, prudence, prudent, safe, shy, shyness, sound an alarm, suspicious, take care, vigilance, vigilant, wariness, warn, wary, watch, wide awake), حريص (assiduous, circumspect, eager, wishful), اليقظ, المكر (astuteness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сметачен, хитър (acute, arch, artful, catty, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, designing, disingenuous, dodgy, foxy, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, long-headed, parlous, patent, pawky, politic, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sleek, slim, sly, smart, supple, wary, wide, wily, wordly-wise), пресметлив (sagacious), изчислителен (calculative, computing, computive). (various references) | |
Chinese | "算 (Calculate, Calculated, Calculation). (various references) | |
Czech | chladnokrevný (cold blooded, cool, cool-headed), vypoèítavý, poètářský. (various references) | |
Danish | kasseapparat uden regnemekanisme (cash register not incorporating a calculating device), beregning af spaendinger efter von Mises kriterium giver noejagtigere resultater end Lamé konstanterne (calculating the stresses according to the von Mises funCtion gives more accurate results than the Lamé elastic constant), beregningen af afgiften eller det variable element (calculating either the charge or the variable component), brudstyrken og en faktor, der afhaenger af deformationshaerdningsparameteren, indgaar i de formler, der bruges til at beregne spraengningstrykket (the fracture stress and a factor dependent on the strain hardening parameter are included in the formulas used for calculating the failure), elektrisk regnemaskine (electric calculating machine), gennemsnitlig beregningstid (average calculating operation), grundlag for beregningen af kontingenterne (basis for calculating quotas), hulkortmaskine (calculating punch, multiplying punch), hulkortregnemaskine (calculating punch, multiplying punch), alfabetlængde (alphabet length, an alphabet length may be used in calculating an approximation of the amount of space that a given text will occupy when presented in a given typeface and nominal type size.However, juventile), literary, such an approximation must take into account the distribution of the letters of the alphabet in text of different kinds(e.g.scientific), kalkulator (calculating machine, calculator), ved beregningsmetoden for klimaet i de med kanaler ventilerede gange maa tages hensyn til indvirkningen fra koeleaggregatet (the method for calculating the climate in duct-ventilated roadways must take into account the effect of cooling machines), kendskab til lastning (stress calculating equipment), kontorregnemaskine (calculating machine), regneapparat (calculating instrument), regnemaskine (calculating machine, calculator), regnemaskineoperatoer (calculating machine operator), regnemekanisme (calculating device), regnestok (calculating rule, slide rule), skrivemaskine uden regnemekanisme (typewriter not incorporating any calculating device), vanskeligheder ved risikoberegning (difficulties in calculating risks), instrument til beregning (calculating instrument). (various references) | |
Dutch | problemen bij de risicocalculatie (difficulties in calculating risks), bediener van rekenmachines (calculating machine operator), bij de berekeningsmethode van het klimaat in met luchtkokers geventileerde galerijen moet rekening gehouden worden met de invloed van koelmachines (the method for calculating the climate in duct-ventilated roadways must take into account the effect of cooling machines), de berekening van de belasting dan wel van het variabele element (calculating either the charge or the variable component), elektrische rekenmachine (electric calculating machine), franchise (franchise, part of income not subject to ABP contributions, portion of salary disregarded in calculating pension contribution), gemiddelde rekenbewerking (average calculating operation), grondslag voor de berekening van de contingenten (basis for calculating quotas), in de formules ter berekening van de barstdruk wordt rekening gehouden met de breeksterkte en een factor die afhangt van de verstevigingsparameter (the fracture stress and a factor dependent on the strain hardening parameter are included in the formulas used for calculating the failure), kasregister zonder telwerk (cash register not incorporating a calculating device), alfabetlengte (alphabet length, an alphabet length may be used in calculating an approximation of the amount of space that a given text will occupy when presented in a given typeface and nominal type size.However, juventile), literary, such an approximation must take into account the distribution of the letters of the alphabet in text of different kinds(e.g.scientific), premievrije voet (part of income not subject to ABP contributions, portion of salary disregarded in calculating pension contribution), spanningsberekening op grond van het criterium van von Mises is nauwkeuriger dan op grond van de Laméfuncties (calculating the stresses according to the von Mises funCtion gives more accurate results than the Lamé elastic constant), rekenaar (calculating machine, calculator), rekenende ponsmachine (calculating punch, multiplying punch), rekeninstrument (calculating instrument), rekenlat (calculating rule, slide rule), rekenliniaal (calculating rule, slide rule), rekenmachine (calculating machine, calculator), rekenorgaan (calculating device), rekenschuif (calculating rule, slide rule), schrijfmachine zonder telwerk (typewriter not incorporating any calculating device), ladingverdelingsapparatuur (stress calculating equipment). (various references) | |
Finnish | laskelmallinen. (various references) | |
French | prudent (canny, careful, cautious), prévoyant, prévoyance. (various references) | |
German | berechnend (calculatingly, designing, politic), Rechnen (account, arithmetic, calculate, calkulate, comput, compute, computing, count, do sums, estimate, figure, have faith, have faith in, include, make calculations, numeracy, rate, reckon, sums, take into account, to calculate, to compute, to reckon, trust, work out), einkalkulierend, ausrechnend. (various references) | |
Greek | υπολογιστικόσ (logistical), υπολογιστήσ (calculator, reckoner). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ערמומי (arch, artful, canny, catchy, crafty, cunning, devious, foxy, insidious, pawky, shifty, slicker, sly, underhand, wily), ז"יר (careful, cautious, chary, discreet, guarded, mindful, prudent, vigilant, wary). (various references) | |
Hungarian | számoló (calculated risk, counter, counting, reckoner), számító (anticipatory, cunning, designing, scrounging). (various references) | |
Italian | calcolatore (calculator, computer, digital computer, reckoner). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 計算高い , 算盤高い (miserly), "算的 (mercenary), 欲得尽く (carrying out mercenary deeds, having a mercenary attitude), か弱い (be dejected, body trembling, chattering, Cheer up!, chipping, clash, clatter, crash, dry or rough feeling, feeble, feel disappointed, feel emotionally drained, feel let down, firmly, frail, frozen solid, heartbroken, lose heart, overly serious, peanut brittle, rattle, rummage, rustling, shrewd, slam, solidly, solidly built, something come loose, tick-tock, tightly, tough, with a bang, with a clank), 勘定高い (closefisted, mercenary), 捕 (a bit, be even, bicycle, capture, cheeky, child pickpocket, efficient, forgive a debt, make a fuss of, making something last, mismatched, nervy, pamper, seizure, shrewd, spoil, suffix for familiarperson, tiny, very small, weight-chain-pole weapon). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がっちり (shrewd, solidly built, tightly), そろば" かい (miserly), か"じょう かい (closefisted, mercenary), よくとくずく (carrying out mercenary deeds, having a mercenary attitude), けいさ" かい, ちゃっかり (cheeky, nervy, shrewd), さ"てき (mercenary). (various references) | |
Korean | 산출 (output). (various references) | |
Manx | kialgagh (calculated, circumventory, crafty, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, fallacious, fly, guileful, illusive, insidious, perfidious, seditious, treacherous, tricky, wily), croutagh (crafty, devious, scheming, subtle), coontyssagh, calghooley (calculate). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alculatingcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | calculante, calculando. (various references) | |
Romanian | calculat (economical, prudent). (various references) | |
Russian | счетный (enumerable, processor-bound), расчетливый (hardheaded, provident, prudent). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | proračunat (shrewd). (various references) | |
Spanish | calculador (reckoner). (various references) | |
Swedish | beräknande (designing, scheming). (various references) | |
Thai | ที่เก่งในการวางแผนเพื่อให้ตนเองไ"้เปรียบ. (various references) | |
Turkish | kurnaz (arch, artful, astute, cagey, canny, cattish, catty, coon, crafty, cunning, cute, designing, dodger, dodgy, downy, feline, Fox, foxy, hard boiled, heady, knowing, leery, politic, quirky, roguish, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slim, sly, sly old fox, slyboots, smart, subtile, tricky, vulpine, weasel, wheeler dealer, wide awake, wily, wise guy), işini bilen, hesap-, egoist (egoist, egoistic, egotist, egotistical, selfish, self-seeker), bencil (egoist, egoistic, egotistical, hoggish, piggish, self centered, self centred, self-absorbed, selfish, self-seeker, thoughtless), çıkarcı (expedient, interested, mercenary, number one, politic, profiteer, self-seeker, self-seeking, sordid, utilitarian). (various references) | |
Ukranian | розважливий (prudent, prudential, well advised), обчислюваний, обчислювальна машина, обачливий, лічильний. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | có đắn đo suy nghĩ tính toán hơn thiệt, thận trọng (advisedly, box, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, considerate, discreet, guarded, politic, prudent, prudential, tender, vigilant, wary, watchful, wide awake). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "calculating": calculatingly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "calculating": miscalculating, recalculating, uncalculating. (additional references) | |
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"Calculating" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: calcinating. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "calculating" (pronounced ka"lkyulā'ting) |
| 11 | k a" l k y u l ā' t i ng | recalculating. |
| 8 | -k y u l ā' t i ng | articulating, circulating, speculating. |
| 7 | -y u l ā' t i ng | accumulating, coagulating, deregulating, emulating, formulating, manipulating, populating, regulating, simulating, stimulating, stipulating, tabulating. |
| 6 | -u l ā' t i ng | assimilating, congratulating, encapsulating, escalating, extrapolating, insulating, isolating, mutilating, oscillating, percolating, titillating, undulating, vacillating, ventilating. |
| 5 | -l ā' t i ng | contemplating, electroplating, legislating. |
| 4 | -ā' t i ng | abbreviating, abdicating, abrogating, accelerating, accentuating, accommodating, activating, adjudicating, administrating, advocating, affiliating, aggravating, agitating, alienating, alleviating, allocating, alternating, anticipating, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, assassinating, associating, authenticating, automating, captivating, castigating, castrating, celebrating, chlorinating, collaborating, commemorating, communicating, compensating, complicating, concentrating, confiscating, consolidating, consummating, contaminating, cooperating, coordinating, corroborating, culminating, cultivating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, degenerating, delegating, deliberating, delineating, demonstrating, denigrating, deprecating, depreciating, designating, deteriorating, detonating, devastating, dictating, differentiating, discriminating, disintegrating, disseminating, dissipating, domesticating, dominating, donating, duplicating, educating, elaborating, elevating, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, enunciating, equivocating, eradicating, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, exacerbating, exaggerating, exasperating, excavating, excoriating, excruciating, exhilarating, exonerating, extenuating, exterminating, fabricating, facilitating, fascinating, fluctuating, frustrating, generating, graduating, gravitating, gyrating, hesitating, humiliating, hydrogenating, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impersonating, implicating, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, infatuating, infiltrating, infuriating, ingratiating, initiating, instigating, integrating, interrogating, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, investigating, invigorating, irritating, laminating, levitating, liberating, liquidating, litigating, locating, lubricating, mandating, masturbating, mediating, meditating, migrating, misappropriating, mitigating, moderating, motivating, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negotiating, nitrating, nominating, nonoperating, obliterating, obviating, officiating, operating, orchestrating, originating, overestimating, overstating, participating, penetrating, permeating, perpetrating, perpetuating, placating, pontificating, precipitating, predominating, procrastinating, prognosticating, proliferating, promulgating, propagating, pulsating, radiating, reactivating, reallocating, reciprocating, recreating, recuperating, redecorating, reevaluating, regenerating, rehabilitating, reincorporating, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejuvenating, relegating, renegotiating, renovating, repatriating, replicating, repudiating, resonating, resuscitating, retaliating, reverberating, rotating, salivating, saturating, segregating, separating, stagnating, subordinating, suffocating, syndicating, terminating, tolerating, underestimating, understating, urinating, validating. |
| 3 | -t i ng | abating, abducting, abetting, aborting, abutting, accenting, accepting, accosting, accounting, accrediting, acquitting, acting, adapting, addicting, adjusting, admitting, adopting, affecting, afflicting, airlifting, alerting, allotting, amounting, annotating, appointing, arresting, assaulting, asserting, assisting, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, 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, carpeting, carting, casting, catapulting, cavorting, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commenting, committing, commuting, competing, complementing, completing, complimenting, composting, computing, concocting, conducting, conflicting, confronting, connecting, consenting, consisting, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, contacting, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, decanting, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, deleting, delighting, delisting, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deserting, destructing, detecting, detracting, devoting, dieting, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, disgusting, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, dissenting, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, dusting, eating, editing, effecting, elating, electing, eliciting, emitting, enacting, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, equating, erecting, erupting, escorting, everlasting, evicting, exacting, exalting, excepting, exciting, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhorting, existing, exiting, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extorting, extracting, extraditing, fainting, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, grafting, granting, grating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, hunting, hurting, igniting, impacting, imparting, implanting, implementing, importing, imprinting, inciting, indicting, infecting, infighting, inflating, inflicting, ingesting, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instituting, instructing, insulting, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrupting, intersecting, inventing, investing, inviting, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, lasting, letting, lifting, lighting, limiting, listing, looting, lusting, malting, manifesting, marketing, marting, mating, matting, meeting, melting, minting, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, mounting, mutating, muting, negating, neglecting, nesting, netting, nonbiting, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obstructing, offsetting, omitting, opting, orbiting, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, perfecting, permitting, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, porting, posting, pouting, predicting, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, profiting, prohibiting, projecting, promoting, prompting, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, readjusting, reasserting, rebutting, recanting, recasting, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recruiting, redacting, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regretting, reigniting, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, rejecting, relating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renting, repainting, repeating, replanting, reporting, representing, reprinting, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotting, rusting, salting, saluting, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, selecting, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, starting, stating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, toasting, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underreporting, underwriting, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, vacating, vaulting, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-g-i-l-l-n-t-u" | |
-1 letter: catcalling. | |
-3 letters: antalgic, galactic, gallican, nautical, unialgal. | |
-4 letters: acicula, actinal, agnatic, ancilla, calculi, callant, calling, catcall, catling, cingula, culling, gallant, gallnut, glacial, lacunal, lanital, lingual, lunatic, nutgall, talcing. | |
-5 letters: acting, actual, agnail, alcaic, callan, cantic, canula, catlin, cicala, clinal, cluing, cultic, gallic, glucan, guaiac, iguana, incult, lacing, lactic, lacuna, laguna, laical, ligula, lingua, luting, nilgau, tincal, tunica, uncial. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-g-i-l-l-n-t-u" | |
+2 letters: calculatingly, recalculating, uncalculating. | |
+3 letters: miscalculating. | |
+4 letters: circumvallating. | |
| 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)43 61 6C 63 75 6C 61 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)01000011 01100001 01101100 01100011 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a l c u l a t i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 006C 0063 0075 006C 0061 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)3767786987786786758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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