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Definitions: Casing |
CasingNoun1. The housing or outer covering of something; "the clock has a walnut case". 2. The outermost covering of a pneumatic tire. 3. The enclosing frame around a door or window opening; "the casings had rotted away and had to be replaced". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "casing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mechanical Engineering | That part of a reciprocating compressor in which the crankshaft is housed. Source: European Union. (references) |
Building | Door and window framing. (references) |
Building & Civil Engineering | This term designates the whole assembly of fixed windowsections in contact with the frame or the cladding. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The wooden or metal casing of a block in which the sheaves revolve. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Structure or skeleton of tire excepting tread. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | The essential parts of a centrifugal pump are a rotating member with blades or vanes and a -- surrounding it. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A rigid enclosure containing moving machine parts. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The casing of a motor. Usually it is identical with the "frame" of the motor, called also the "carcass". But sometimes an "outer casing" is placed round the frame. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Protective metal device or structure. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Metallurgy | The metal casing of the furnace enclosing the refractory brickwork. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A supporting outside steel frame and metal sheeting which encloses the thermal insulation and refractory materials. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. Special steel tubing welded or screwed together and lowered into a borehole to prevent entry of loose rock, gas, or liquid into the borehole, to prevent loss of circulation liquid into porous, cavernous, or crevassed ground, and to support the sides of a borehole. See also:tubing; flush-joint casing b. The large-diameter pipe cemented in the hole, such as surface casing, protective casing, and production casing c. Process of inserting casing in a borehole d. A structure of wood, metal, or other material that completely encloses the elevating or conveying machinery elements to support them; to afford safety protection; to protect from the weather; to confine dust, gases, or fumes arising from the material being conveyed; or to form a part of the conveyor in the same manner as a trough. e. A zone of material altered by vein action and lying between the unaltered country rock and the vein. f. A term applied to thin slabs of sandstone that split out between closely spaced joints.g. The steel lining of a circular shaft. See also:conduit. (references) |
Transportation | A case or covering. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CasingSynonyms: case (n), shell (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: in-box (mechanical engineering), overlaying (industry, metallurgy). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Covering | Capsule; sheath, sheathing; pod, cod; casing, case, theca; elytron; elytrum; involucrum; wrapping, wrapper; envelope, vesicle; corn husk, corn shuck; dermatology, conchology; testaceology. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Casing |
| English words defined with "casing": banger, boot, Breeching ♦ Cachepot, cartouch, cartouche, cartridge, Circulating pump, Composite ship, cornice, cracker ♦ Elbowboard, Enchase ♦ firecracker ♦ gear case, gearbox ♦ inner tube ♦ jacket ♦ lambrequin ♦ Marmoration ♦ pelmet ♦ radial, radial tire, radial-ply tire ♦ shell, Steam casing, Steam jacket ♦ tire iron, tire tool ♦ valance, valance board ♦ Water tu tuyere. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "casing": back casing, borehole casing ♦ casing clamp, CASING GRADER, casing inspector, casing mixer, casing point, casing pressure, casing puller, casing runner, casing sorter, casing tester, COOKER, CASING, COOKING, CASING, AND DRYING SUPERVISOR ♦ Drive Casing ♦ motor casing ♦ rotating casing screw conveyor ♦ set casing, set casing shoe, shothole casing, slim-hole drilling and casing, starting casing barrel, steel casing ♦ volute casing. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Casing the Crack (1987) | |
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 | Figure 14 (cont). Negretti and Zambra thermometers, older models. These were reversing thermometers completely protected by an outer glass casing. This type of thermometer was manufactured from 1878 until 1912. The scales were graduated in degrees and half-degree centigrade. Temperature range of: 99 0034, -26 to 34C; 99 0044, -13 to 35C; 99 0047, -18 to 33C; 99 0052, -7 to 33C.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | [Rat nests inside a valve casing, New York, N.Y.].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | William Besson removing the iron pipe drill from casing near Winton, Minnesota.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Raising the iron pipe drill from the casing during drilling operations, near Winton, Minnesota.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Metal casing threaded into cement cap ten feet down. Charles County, Maryland. Hardesty well project.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Lowering five foot steel casing into well. Safe well demonstration near La Plata, Maryland. Charles County.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Drop pipe is lowered into casing. Ridge well project, Saint Mary's County, Maryland.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hollow steel sucker rod placed in two inch casing. Ridge well project, Saint Mary's County, Maryland.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | FSA (Farm Security Administration) engineer screws together well casing. Ridge well project, Saint Mary's County, Maryland.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Electric Institute of Washington. Electric clock with scalloped casing mounted on wall over window.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Marius remained upon the threshold, leaning against the casing of the door. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | You wanta charge us four bucks for a busted casing. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Argentina's strength is in supplying casing, tubing and drilling pipes, and parts for pumps. (references) | |
Economic History | Ukraine | The best prospects for U.S. companies include: pipeline construction equipment (compressors and pumps for pipeline applications+ADs- gas transmission systems+ADs- gas pipeline leaks control systems+ADs- gas pipe fittings and applications+ADs- welding machines, cranes, pipe-cleaning equipment, and line trend machines)+ADs- advanced and highly efficient oil and gas exploration and drilling equipment and technologies (pontoons supported on columns, hoisting cranes, drilling rigs, bits, electric motors, winch rollers, rotary tables, sheds, hoisting blocks, monkey boards, crown blocks, gin holes, shackles, cutting, roller and diamond bits, casing sleeves, chemicals, stimulation technologies, modern 3-D seismic, particularly for offshore projects where Ukrainian technology is very limited)+ADs- equipment for atmospheric-vacuum oil refining+ADs- modernization and increasing of hydro-cracking and catalytic cracking capacities+ADs- units for catalytic transformation of distillates+ADs- industrial automation, control and monitoring systems for refineries, gas processing and petrochemical plants+ADs- desulfurization and quality control facilities+ADs- safety systems+ADs- fuel dispensers, fuel storage tanks, fuel level monitoring and accounting systems. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Casing" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Casing" is used about 170 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 170 | 23,898 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "casing": air casing ♦ casing head gas ♦ casing sauce ♦ HP casing ♦ motor casing ♦ steam casing ♦ tire casing ♦ valve casing ♦ volute casing. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "casing": casing-in, casing-paper. | |
Ending with "casing": gear-casing, shell-casing. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
sausage casing | 65 | casing crew frank | 6 |
casing | 56 | sheep casing | 5 |
window casing | 48 | casing perimeter | 5 |
door casing | 28 | casing inner outer wire | 5 |
computer casing | 24 | casing installing window | 5 |
well casing | 19 | casing door window | 4 |
casing pipe | 15 | steel casing | 4 |
wood casing | 12 | casing cd | 4 |
casing tubing | 10 | casing gearbox | 4 |
casing tally | 10 | casing turbo | 4 |
collagen casing | 9 | casing install window | 4 |
hog casing | 9 | water well casing | 4 |
casing screen well | 8 | casing repair | 4 |
casing oilfield used | 7 | casing dog hot natural | 4 |
casing frank | 7 | casing column | 3 |
casing mushroom | 7 | casing nkk tuping | 3 |
victorian casing | 6 | natural casing | 3 |
steel casing pipe | 6 | casing centrifugal pump split | 3 |
casing natural wieners | 6 | arched casing door | 3 |
pc casing | 6 | casing spacers | 3 |
casing plastic well | 6 | bullet casing | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "casing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zorrë (bowel, catgut, entrails, gut, hose, intestine), veshje e jashtme (jacket, vestment), shtresë e jashtme, shkopi perdeje, qeskë (bladder, follicle, packet, sac, sleeve), kornizë (case, cornice, frame, Mount, mounting, picture frame, rack, sash, stretcher), kanal ushkuri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غلاف (binder, coating, covering, envelope, integument, investment, sheath, tegument, wrap, wrapper, wrapping), غطاء بئر البترول, غطاء (bed clothes, casement, clothing, coat, coating, cot, cover, cover up, covering, coverlet, envelope, facing, housing, jacket, lid, overlay, robe, roofing, rug, shroud, tarpaulin, tilt, top, vesture, wrapping), الغلا ف الخارجي لعجلة السيارة, إطار (cadre, case, casement, frame, framework, framing, rim, scope, setting, stretcher, surroundings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | рамка (flake, frame, framework, holder, hoop, pelmet, rack, rim, setting), кутия (box, cabinet, case, container, housing), калъф (cover, covering, dust cover, encasement, sheath, slip, slip-cover), обвивка (aril, coat, covering, encasement, envelope, envelopment, husk, jacket, mantle, sheath, sheeting, shell, tegument, tunic, wrap, wrappage, wrapping), опаковка (encasement, package, packing, wrap, wrapping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 框 (Casings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | obal (container, cover, husk, packaging, packing, padding, sleeve, tunic, wrap, wrapper, wrapping), kryt (bonnet, covering, housing, shield, top), balivo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | casing (rope), karkasse (body, carcass), anbringe i karton (boxing), anbringe på karton (boxing), bjaelkeform (beam box), bjaelkeforskalling (beam box), blokhus (shell), hus (beluga, box, case, encapsulation, header, house, housing, jacket), ved ethvert fiskearbejde for at hente boreroer,foringsroer eller grej op,der har sat sig fast,er belastningsmaalere absolut noedvendige (in any fishing operation to recover stuck drill pipe, or tools, the weight indicator is indispensable), kartonnering (boxing), kasse (box, case, cash, cash in hand, cash liquidity, cash on hand, chest, compartment, container, crate, hopper, housing, lug boxes, picking boxes, saladin box), krumtaphus (crank chamber, crankcase, gear case, safety guard, sump), motorhus (motor casing, motor enclosure, motor inclosure), ovnkappe, solfangerkasse (collector box, enclosure), støbekasse, forskalling (boarding, centering, centres, centring, lagging, sheathing, split bar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | carter (crank chamber, crankcase, gear case, safety guard, sump), casing (rope), collectorbak (collector box, enclosure), karkas (body, carcase, carcass, skeleton), balkbekisting (beam box), behuizing (case, collector box, encapsulation, enclosure, housing, packaging), bekisting (sheathing, sheeting), beveiligingskarter (cover, guard, housing), bij het vissen van achtergebleven boorpijpen,bekledingsbuizen of gereedschap uit het boorgat is de boordrukmeter onmisbaar (in any fishing operation to recover stuck drill pipe, or tools, the weight indicator is indispensable), drijfwerkkast (box, case, housing), inpakken in kartonnen dozen (boxing), zetten (abbreviate, assemble, compose, extract, Final delivery separation, final delivery sorting, folding, infuse, lay down, laying in, link, mount, place, put, put down, reduce, set type, setting, setting in, typeset, walk sorting), kast (bee hive, beehive, bee-hive, cabinet, case, closet, crank chamber, crankcase, cupboard, frame, gear case, hive, housing, locker, safety guard, sideboard, sump), krukhuis (crank chamber, crankcase, gear case, safety guard, sump), krukkast (crank chamber, crankcase, gear case, safety guard, sump), mantel (belt, blanket, cladding, cloak, cover, covering, fiber cladding, fiber optics cladding, fibre cladding, fibre optics cladding, jacket, mantle, motor casing, motor enclosure, motor inclosure, optical fiber cladding, optical fibre cladding, sheath, skirt, surface), omhulsel (capsule, crank chamber, crankcase, enclosure, envelope, envelopes, gear case, safety guard, sheath, straw envelopes(for bottles), sump), omkasting (enclosures, housing), ovenhuis, ovenkast, schacht (bay, body, glory hole, harness, leg, plain stem, pole, rod, scape, shaft, socket, stack, stump socket, trunk, unthreaded portion, waist), vensterkozijn (window-frame), geraamte van een blok (shell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پوشش (Armature, Camouflage, Capsule, Coating, Cover, Envelope, Gear, Mantle, Overlay, Robe, Roof, Shale, Shield, Shroud, Tunic), لوله محافظ, لوله جداری , غلاف (Pod, Sheath, Sheathe, Vagina), اندود (Coating, Overlay), روکش (Blanket, Coat, Plate, Slip, Veneer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vaippa (belt, blanket, box, cape, case, cloak, cover, diaper, enclosure, envelope, gown, housing, jacket, lower shield, mantle, napkin, sheath, skirt, sleeve, sleeving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | enveloppe (motor casing, outer casing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verkleidung (boarding, cladding, cover, covering, cowling, disguise, disguising, dressing up, facing, fairing, fancy dress, jacket, liner, lining, overlay, panel, paneling, panelling, revetment, sheathing, sheeting, shell, sleeve), gehäuse (box, cabinet, cage, case, chassis, core, encapsulation, enclosure, holder, housing, housings, jacket, package, pod, shell, socket), Schalung (form boards, formwork, shuttering), karkasse (body, carcass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | θήκη (cap, case, covering, crown, enclosure, holder, housing, jacket, loose cover, nest, receptacle, scabbard, sheath, theque, torus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מעטפת (cloak, mantle, muff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tok (barrel, boll, capsule, case, holder, holster, husk, pod, sheath, shuck, skin, socket), burkolat (coverage, encasement, envelope, husk, jacket, masking, muffle, overlay, pavement, revetment, sheet, swathe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | bungkus (hull, pack, package, parcel, wrapper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | telaio (bed, bent, brace, case, chase, chassis, equipment shelf, frame, framework, framing, loom, mounting, portal, rack, spider, tambour, underframe ( of a railway carriage )), custodia (care, case, crank chamber, crankcase, custody, enclosure, gear case, guard, housing, keeping, pack, safekeeping, safety guard, sheath, sleeve, slipcase, storage, sump, ward). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 上箱 (outer box, outer casing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | うわば" (outer box, outer casing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 케이싱 (Casings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | asingcay colocação em caixas de cartão (boxing), cárter (box, case, crank case, housing, sump), cárter de segurança (cover, guard, housing), caixa (ash-box, bank window, basket, bin, bottom drawer, box, bunker, cage, canister, case, cash, cash in hand, cash keeper, cash on hand, cashier, cashier's stand, chest, coalscuttle, coffer, collector box, compartment, desk, enclosure, fish box, fund, housing, hutch, jug, kit, money box, pay-box, rack, receiver, safe, saladin box, sheath, teller, thyroid, thyroid gland, treasurer, vessel, watch case, writing table), caixa do moitão (shell), caixa do motor (motor casing, motor enclosure, motor inclosure), camisa de cilindro, carcaça (body, carcase, carcass, frame, Hull, loaf, shroud, skeleton), carter (crank chamber, crankcase, gear case, safety guard, sump), cofragem de viga (beam box), cobertura (black grave yard soil, blanket, canopy, cap, coating, collateral security, cover, coverage, covering, covering operation, covering soil, coverture, cowl, cowling, dump cover, encasement, engine cowl, envelope, facing, facsimile, guard, hedge, hedging, hood, lap, lid, liner, lining paper, listening area, loose cover, mantle, paper liner, pillow-sham, roofing, slipover, spray coverage, topping, umbrella, vesture), tubo para revestimento de poços, armação (armature, arming, armour, brace, cadre, cage, carcass, casement, cradle, easel, five, frame, framework, framing, hack, ribbing, rigging, scaffold, setting, skeleton, tackle, truss), embalagem em caixas de cartão (boxing), empacotamento (bundling, package, packing), empalhamento (stuffing), encaixotamento (act or instance of putting into or furnishing with a box, boxing, packing into boxes), esquadria (iron, miter, mitre, square, stud), invólucro (coating, encasement, enclosure, envelope, envenom, Hull, inclosure, involucre, jacket, overlay, pack, sheath, sheathing, slipover, wrap in, wrapper, wrapping), madeiramento (boarding, carcase, carcass, carpentry, framework, framing, portal frame, timber, timbering, woodwork), revestimento (boarding, can, canning, canning process, case, clad, cladding, cladding process, cleading, clothing, coat, coating, course, cover, covering, encaustic, facing, fiber cladding, fiber optics cladding, fibre cladding, fibre optics cladding, finish, jacket, liner, lines, lining, matting, optical fiber cladding, optical fibre cladding, overlay, paper plastic overlay, revetment, sheath, slipover). (various references) toc (case, casement, cover, feather, holster, housing, knock, pen, penholder, plume, sheath, smack, stalk, tap), teacã (case, cover, jacket, scabbard, sheath), ramã (case, casement, chase, frame, framework, oar, paddle, rail, rim), pervaz (cheek, sill, window sill), husã (antimacassar, bag, dust cloth, dust-wrap, sheath, tidy), înveliş (cap, casement, clothing, coat, coating, cover, crust, dress, envelopment, film, integument, jacket, lap, layer, mantle, shroud, skin). (various references) рама (carriage, chase, chassis, cradling, frame, gantry, mounting, rack, rama, windowbox), кожух (case, cover, guard, hood, jacket, mantel, mantle, shell), картер (crankcase), клетка (cage, cell, cellule, hutch, mew), оклад, обсадные трубы, облицовка (covering, facing, lining, revetment), зальбанд жилы, покрытие (carpet, chemise, coating, covering, defrayal, revetment, suffusion). (various references) omot (jacket, wrap, wrapper), navlaka (cover, onlay), futrola. (various references) cubierta (binder, burden, cable hose, cable sheath, capping, cover, covering, cowling, deck, drape, facing, guard, housing, lid, liner, lining paper, outer ply, overburden, paper liner, roofing, sheath, shoe, tire, topping), caja (barrel, body, box, cabinet, case, cash, cash desk, cash in hand, cash on hand, cashbox, cashier's stand, checkbox, checkout, chest, compartment, container, crate, cushion, drawer, enclosure, flat, floater, fund, gain, housing, jug, millstand, money box, money-box, notch, pay office, paydesk, plant tray, red mombin, saladin box, seedling tray, shaft, shell, skip, slush fund, Spanish plum, stand, take, till, tray, truck body, vein wall, vessel, wall, watch case, well). (various references) fodral (box, case, cover, encasement). (various references) กรอบ ายนอก. (various references) muhafaza (conservation, preservation, protection, repository, tabernacle), kasa (case, cash desk, cashbox, cashier's desk, cashier's office, chest, coffer, crate, desk, Peter, register, safe, strongbox, till, vaulting horse), kaplama (covering, cowl, encrustation, facing, fairing, incrustation, lining, overgrowth, overlap, overlay, plated, plating, revetment, sheath, sheathing, skin, veneering), kılıf (case, cover, dust cover, envelope, fig leaf, garment, guise, husk, sheath, slipcover, tick, Tunica, vagina), dış lastik, bumbar (chitterling, chitterlings), çerçeve (frame, rim, skeleton). (various references) оклад ікони, покриття (backing, carpet, chemise, coating, paintwork), опалубка (centering, decking), оправа (cover, mandrel, rim, ring, setting), оббивка (overcast, upholstery), облицювання (basque, chemise, covering, facing, lining, revetment), оболонка (capsule, carcass, casket, coma, covering, envelope, membrane, operculum, rind, sheath, shell, skin, tunic), покришка (case, cope, overlay), обсадні труби, станина (bed, carcass, entablature, entablement, holster), капот (nightgown), картер, кожух (banjo, hood, mantle, shroud), корпус (cabinet, corps, pavilion), футляр (cabinet, cap, case, cover, encasement, hose, sheath), рама (carriage, chassis, frame, gantry, gauntry, sash), обшивка (clothing, covering, encasement, lagging, lath, overcast, revetment, sheathing, welting). (various references) vỏ bọc (cover, envelopment, integument, vesture), bao (bag, envelope, enveloping, hull). 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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "casing": casings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "casing": discasing, encasing, incasing, lowercasing, showcasing, uncasing, uppercasing. (additional references) | |
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"Casing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acsin, Acsni, Asang, caain, caa'ing, caesin, caing, caising, Calsin, casana, casdn, casin, Casina, Caslin, cason, Cassen, Cassin, cassini, Cazin, cising, Clasina, cossing, crassing, cusin, cusing, cusping, Kamsing, Kasenga, kassin, kassing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "casing" (pronounced kā"sing) |
| 4 | -ā" s i ng | basing, bracing, chasing, debasing, defacing, displacing, effacing, embracing, erasing, facing, pacing, placing, racing, replacing, retracing, spacing, tracing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | accessing, acquiescing, addressing, advancing, affixing, amassing, annexing, announcing, assessing, balancing, blessing, bouncing, boxing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, ceasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, commencing, compressing, condensing, conferencing, confessing, conversing, convincing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, dancing, decreasing, denouncing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispensing, dispersing, distancing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, embarrassing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enhancing, enticing, expensing, experiencing, expressing, faxing, fencing, financing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, influencing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, Lancing, lapsing, leasing, lensing, licensing, loosing, massing, menacing, mensing, messing, mincing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outdistancing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, policing, possessing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pronouncing, pulsing, reassessing, rebalancing, recessing, redressing, reducing, referencing, refinancing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, renouncing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, reversing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, seducing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, servicing, showcasing, silencing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, teleconferencing, tossing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, trouncing, unceasing, unconvincing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, videoconferencing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wincing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-n-s" | |
-1 letter: acing, cains, gains. | |
-2 letters: agin, ains, anis, asci, cain, cans, cigs, gain, gins, nags, sain, sang, scag, scan, sign, sing, snag. | |
-3 letters: ain, ais, ani, can, cig, cis, gan, gas, gin, ins, nag, sac, sag, sic, sin. | |
-4 letters: ag, ai, an, as, in, is, na, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-n-s" | |
+1 letter: actings, cashing, casings, casking, casting, causing, cavings, ceasing, chasing, facings, incages, lacings, racings, sacking, sacring, saucing, scaling, scaping, scaring, spacing. | |
+2 letters: accusing, agencies, agnostic, archings, backings, bracings, caginess, callings, campings, cannings, cappings, cardings, carlings, carpings, carvings, castings, castling, catlings, chagrins, chasings, clashing, clasping, classing, coamings, coasting, coatings, coinages, crashing, cravings, creasing, encasing, escaping, incasing, magnesic, organics, packings, sackings, sacrings, scabbing, scalding, scalping, scamming, scamping, scanning, scanting, scarfing, scarping, scarring, scarting, scathing, scatting, scraping, slacking, smacking, snacking, solacing, spacings, stacking, syngamic, tracings, uncasing, vicugnas. | |
| 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 73 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 01110011 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a s i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0073 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)376785758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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