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Definition: Conforming |
ConformingAdjective1. Adhering to established customs or doctrines (especially in religion). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "conforming" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | Transferring edit decision list information gathered from an off-line edit to an on-line edit for final assembly. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: ConformingSynonym: conformist (adj). (additional references) |
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Henry David Thoreau | As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Products conforming to U.S. standards may be fully acceptable, although European standards are often preferred. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Afghanistan | Members of the PVSV, which was raised to the status of a Ministry in May 1998, regularly monitored persons on the street to ensure that individuals were conforming to Taliban edicts. (references) |
Economic History | Ukraine | What constitutes conforming to code in the U.S. does not necessarily mean the same in Ukraine. (references) |
Lithuania | Having signed the Association Agreement with the EU in 1996, Lithuania must now pass legislation conforming to the EU environmental laws. (references) | |
Trade | Spain | The Spanish re-export system is regulated by Order of July 24, 1987, conforming to EU regulations. (references) |
Uk | The entity responsible for placing products conforming to EU standards on the market must also affix a CE-mark. (references) | |
South Africa | Although the government seems intent on conforming to the standards of the WTO, the legacy of an import-substitution policy supported by high tariffs and import permits has left South African industry largely uncompetitive on the world market. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Panama | Construction workers and their employers are notoriously lax about conforming to basic safety measures, usually resulting in several deaths a year. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DEPUTY, n. A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy is commonly a beautiful young man, with a red necktie and an intricate system of cobwebs extending from his nose to his desk. When accidentally struck by the janitor's broom, he gives off a cloud of dust. "Chief Deputy," the Master cried, "To-day the books are to be tried By experts and accountants who Have been commissioned to go through Our office here, to see if we Have stolen injudiciously. Please have the proper entries made, The proper balances displayed, Conforming to the whole amount Of cash on hand -- which they will count. I've long admired your punctual way -- Here at the break and close of day, Confronting in your chair the crowd Of business men, whose voices loud And gestures violent you quell By some mysterious, calm spell -- Some magic lurking in your look That brings the noisiest to book And spreads a holy and profound Tranquillity o'er all around. So orderly all's done that they Who came to draw remain to pay. But now the time demands, at last, That you employ your genius vast In energies more active. Rise And shake the lightnings from your eyes; Inspire your underlings, and fling Your spirit into everything!" The Master's hand here dealt a whack Upon the Deputy's bent back, When straightway to the floor there fell A shrunken globe, a rattling shell A blackened, withered, eyeless head! The man had been a twelvemonth dead. Jamrach Holobom |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Hence, while the greater part of Pennsylvania itself were conforming themselves to the acts of excise, a few counties were resolved to frustrate them. |
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| "Conforming" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 95.73% of the time. "Conforming" is used about 117 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) | 95.73% | 112 | 30,646 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.42% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 117 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "conforming": conforming to the laws of nature. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "conforming": non-conforming. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "conforming"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | që përputhet (coincident, consentaneous, consentient, osculant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ملائم (acceptable, accordant, adapted, adequate, advantageous, agreeable, agreeing, appropriate, apt, becoming, click, compatible, concordant, conformable, congruent, congruous, consistent, consonant, convenient, expedient, favorable, favourable, feasible, fit, fitting, harmonious, in accord, in agreement, in conformity, in harmony, matching, opportune, proper, propitious, right, seasonable, seemly, suitable, suited, timely), متطابق (congruent, congruous, corresponding, identical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 一致 (Accordant, Coincident, Concord, Concordant, Concurrent, Conform, Conformed, Congruence, Congruent, Consistent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | povolný (acquiescent, compliant, docile, pliable, pliant, supple, tractable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vilkår,der ikke er i overensstemmelse (non-conforming term and condition). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | passend (appropriate, becoming, convenient, decently, fitting, handy, opportune, properly, seemly, suitable), overeenstemmend (fitting), adequaat (adequate, fitting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | konforma (fitting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | samsvarandi (equivalent, fitting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | conforme (congruent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | konformistisch (conformist), konform (concurring, conformable, fitting), gleich (again, alike, all the same, at once, equal, equally, equivalent, even, fitting, identic, identical, identically, immediately, in a jiffy, in a minute, in a moment, instantaneous, instantly, just, level, like, likewise, now, outright, pair, parallel, promptly, right, right away, right now, same, similar, soon, straight away, the same, uniform, uniformly, without delay), entsprechend (according, according to, accordingly, adequate, analogical, appropriate, commensurately, complying, congruent, congruous, considering, consistently, correlative, correspondent, corresponding, corresponding to, correspondingly, equivalent, fitting, homologous, in accordance with, obverse, pertinent, proportionally, proportionate, proportionately, relevant), anpassend (accomodating, adaptational, adapting, assimilating, assimilative, leveling, matching, paralleling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ασυμβίβαστοι όροι και προϋποθέσεις (non-conforming term and condition), δυναμικά συμμορφούμενος (dynamically conforming). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elfogadó (accepter, acceptor, recipient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | condizione e modalit non conforme (non-conforming term and condition). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 合致 (agreement, concurrence, conforming to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | がっち (agreement, concurrence, conforming to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 즉응. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | adekuado (adequate, effective, effectual, efficacious, fitting, of use, suitable), adaptabel (adaptable, fitting, of use, suitable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onformingcay conforme (according, according as, according to, accurate, after, as, conformable, conformed, corresponding, fitting, from, in accordance with, on), apropriado (adequate, applicable, apposite, appropriate, becoming, competent, congruous, decent, felicitous, fitting, good, happy, likely, opportune, proper, rightdown, seemly, suitable), adequado (adequate, apposite, appropriate, apt, congruous, due, fit, fitting, good, meet, proper, rightdown, seasonable, seemly, suitable). (various references) соответствующий (accordable, adequate, applicate, appropriate, coincident, conformable, congruent, congruous, consistent with, correct, corresponding, due, pertinent, proper, respective, substantive, suitable, suited, worthy). (various references) povinovati se zakonima prirode (conforming to the laws of nature). (various references) condición no conforme (non-conforming term and condition). (various references) anpassande, överenstämmande (coincident, concordant, conformable, congruent, congruous, consistent). (various references) cydffurfiol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "conforming": nonconforming. (additional references) | |
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"Conforming" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: conforting. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "conforming" (pronounced kunfô"rming) |
| 7 | -n f ô" r m i ng | informing, misinforming. |
| 6 | -f ô" r m i ng | forming, nonperforming, performing, reforming, transforming. |
| 5 | -ô" r m i ng | storming, swarming, warming. |
| 4 | -r m i ng | alarming, arming, barnstorming, brainstorming, charming, disarming, farming, harming, heartwarming, outperforming, rearming. |
| 3 | -m i ng | acclaiming, affirming, aiming, assuming, beaming, becoming, blaming, blooming, blossoming, bombing, booming, bottoming, brimming, calming, claiming, climbing, combing, coming, condemning, confirming, consuming, cramming, damming, damning, daydreaming, deprogramming, diagraming, dimming, disclaiming, dooming, dreaming, drumming, dumbing, embalming, exclaiming, filming, firebombing, firming, flaming, foaming, forthcoming, framing, fuming, gaming, gleaming, gloaming, grooming, helming, hemming, homecoming, homing, humming, incoming, inflaming, jamming, lambing, lemming, liming, looming, maiming, mainstreaming, mushrooming, naming, numbing, oncoming, overcoming, overwhelming, plumbing, presuming, priming, proclaiming, programing, programming, ramming, reaffirming, reclaiming, redeeming, renaming, reprogramming, resuming, rhyming, roaming, rooming, scheming, screaming, seeming, shaming, shortcoming, skimming, slamming, slimming, squirming, steaming, stemming, streaming, strumming, succumbing, summing, swimming, taming, teaming, teeming, terming, thumbing, timing, trimming, unassuming, unbecoming, upcoming, vacuuming, welcoming, zooming. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-f-g-i-m-n-n-o-o-r" | |
-2 letters: crooning, gnomonic, oncoming. | |
-3 letters: confirm, conform, corning, forcing, forming, mooning, mooring, morning, moronic, omicron, roofing, rooming. | |
-4 letters: coming, coning, cooing, coring, formic, gnomic, gnomon, gonion, inform, micron, mignon, mooing, morion, noncom, ronion. | |
-5 letters: cogon, coign, congo, conin, corgi, croon, forgo, giron, gonif, gonof, groin, groom, incog, micro, minor, mongo, moron, nomoi, onion, orcin, orgic. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-f-g-i-m-n-n-o-o-r" | |
+3 letters: nonconforming, unforthcoming. | |
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