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"CHIPPINGS" is a plural of: chipping. |
Date "CHIPPINGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1874. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | The spreading of grit or sand to fill the voids in a road wearing surface. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Crushed angular stone fragments ranging from 1/8 to 1 in (0.32 to 2.54 cm)in size. See also:aggregate. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CHIPPINGS |
| Specialty definitions using "CHIPPINGS": air-stowing machine ♦ C.P. Hemborn dust extractor ♦ dust trap ♦ grouted macadam ♦ Holman dust extractor ♦ PARINGS, penetration macadam ♦ riassunto ♦ sludge sample, surface dressing. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "CHIPPINGS": Scruple. (references) |
| "CHIPPINGS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 96.49% of the time. "CHIPPINGS" is used about 57 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 (plural) | 96.49% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.51% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 57 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "CHIPPINGS": spreading of chippings. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "CHIPPINGS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | çakëll (ballast, metal, rubble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | udspredning af skærver (blinding, gritting, spreading of chippings), småskærver (fine stone chippings, gritting material, screenings), sigtestof (screenings), ristestoffer (screenings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | steenslag (broken stones, road-metal, rubble, stone-chippings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | ŝtonetaro (broken stones, road-metal, rubble, stone-chippings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sirote (fine stone chippings, gritting material, screenings), hieno sepeli (fine stone chippings, gritting material, screenings), hiekoitusaine (fine stone chippings, gritting material, screenings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | criblures de pierre, criblures de pieres (fine stone chippings), grenaille (fine stone chippings), gravillonnage (spreading of chippings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Steinsplitt (gesiebt) (fine stone chippings, gritting material, screenings), splitter (chip, Chipping, flake, fragment, shiver, sliver, slivers, splint, splinter), Splitt (crushed stone, grit, macadam, stone chipping), späne (scrapings, shavings), Absplitten (blinding, gritting, spreading of chippings), Abdecksplitt (fine stone chippings, gritting material, screenings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λεπτόκοκκες ψηφίδες (fine stone chippings, gritting material, screenings), θρύμματα (smithereens), διάστρωση σκύρων (blinding, gritting, spreading of chippings), διάστρωση λιθοσυντριμμάτων (blinding, gritting, spreading of chippings), διάστρωση ψηφίδων (blinding, gritting, spreading of chippings), ψηφίδες (screenings, tessera, tesserae). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | törmelék (debris, detritus, offal, potsherd, refuse, rubbish, rubble, scrap, shatter, slump scraps, wreckage), szilánkok (smithereens, splintering), kőtörmelék (ballast, blinding, broken stone, debris, rubble, scree), forgács (bur, burr, Flinders, paring, raspings, shavings, shiver, shivers, sliver, Spall, trimmings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | trucioli (turnings), spargimento di graniglia (blinding, gritting, spreading of chippings), schegge (chips, shavings), granigliatura (blasting, blinding, grit blast technique, grit-blasting, gritting, sand blasting, sand-blasting, shot blasting, spreading of chippings, steel grit blasting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | myn-chlaghyn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | steinsprut (broken stones, road-metal, rubble, stone-chippings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ippingschay miuçalha (fine stone chippings, gritting material, screenings), meio-cascalho (screenings), gravilha (fine stone chippings, gritting material, screenings), brita miúda (screenings). (various references) cascajo (broken stones, gravel, grit, road-metal, rubble, Spall, stone-chippings). (various references) sortering av krossat berg (screenings), pågrusspridning (blinding, gritting, spreading of chippings), pågrus (blinding, gritting, spreading of chippings), fin sortering (fine stone chippings, gritting material, screenings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"CHIPPINGS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: shippings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-h-i-i-n-p-p-s" | |
-1 letter: chipping, shipping. | |
-2 letters: hipping, pipings, pishing, sipping, spicing. | |
-3 letters: icings, piping, siping. | |
-4 letters: chins, chips, icing, nighs, piing, pinch, pings. | |
-5 letters: chin, chip, chis, cigs, ghis, gins, gips, hins, hips, hisn, ichs, inch, nigh, nips, nisi, phis, pics, pigs, ping, pins, pips, pish, shin, ship, sigh, sign, sing, sinh, snip, spic, spin. | |
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