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CHIPPINGS

"CHIPPINGS" is a plural of: chipping.

Date "CHIPPINGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1874. (references)


Specialty Definition: CHIPPINGS

DomainDefinition

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.

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Synonyms: CHIPPINGS

Synonyms by domain: screenings (transportation).

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Crosswords: CHIPPINGS

Specialty definitions using "CHIPPINGS": air-stowing machineC.P. Hemborn dust extractordust trapgrouted macadamHolman dust extractorPARINGS, penetration macadamriassuntosludge sample, surface dressing. (references)
Etymologies containing "CHIPPINGS": Scruple. (references)

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Usage Frequency: CHIPPINGS

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)96.49%5545,713
Noun (proper)3.51%2245,945
                    Total100.00%57N/A

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

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Expression: CHIPPINGS

Expression using "CHIPPINGS": spreading of chippings. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CHIPPINGS

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

   

Portuguese

  

miuçalha (fine stone chippings, gritting material, screenings), meio-cascalho (screenings), gravilha (fine stone chippings, gritting material, screenings), brita miúda (screenings). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cascajo (broken stones, gravel, grit, road-metal, rubble, Spall, stone-chippings). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: CHIPPINGS

Misspellings

"CHIPPINGS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: shippings. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: CHIPPINGS

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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