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Definition: Coursing |
CoursingNoun1. Hunting with dogs that are trained to chase game by sight instead of by scent. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "coursing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | The control of ventilation in mines, as by doors, brattices, andstoppings. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Killing | Slaughtering; phthisozoics; sport, sporting; the chase, venery; hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing; pig-sticking; sportsman, huntsman, fisherman; hunter, Nimrod; slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir. |
Pursuit | Chase, hunt, battue, race, steeple chase, hunting, coursing; venation, venery; fox chase; sport, sporting; shooting, angling, fishing, hawking; shikar. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Coursing |
| Specialty definitions using "coursing": bubbles ♦ face-airing ♦ glossopalatine, glossopalatine nerve ♦ intermediate nerve of Wrisberg ♦ Neurofibrils. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Probably attends coursing matches. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | As a matter of fact, I don't get on until my blood is coursing with enough thorazine to drop an epileptic rhino. |
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| "Coursing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 96.49% of the time. "Coursing" 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 96.49% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.75% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.75% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 57 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "coursing": Coursing joint. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "coursing": hare-coursing. | |
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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 |
coursing lure | 18 |
coursing | 6 |
brick coursing | 4 |
coursing equipment lure | 3 |
2002 coursing europe | 3 |
coursing hare | 3 |
coursing indiana lure | 2 |
dog lure coursing | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "coursing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gjah (battue, catch, chase, chivy, game, Hunt, hunting, prey, shooting, sport). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 追猎 (Coursed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | jagend (chasing, hawking, hounding, hunting, scudding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | צי" אר בות. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | falkavadászat (course, drag, hunting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | caccia (chase, game, gunning, hue and cry, Hunt, hunting, shooting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | '"음. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | coorsey mwoie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oursingcay охота на зайца с гончими. (various references) caza de liebres. (various references) kurserande. (various references) tazı ile tavşan kovalama, köpekle kovalama. (various references) вентиляція виробок, полювання з гончаками. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "coursing": coursings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "coursing": discoursing. (additional references) | |
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"Coursing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: coarsing, Coiruisg, coreing, corsing, corsino, couring, coursin, cursings, Oursin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "coursing" (pronounced kô"rsing) |
| 5 | -ô" r s i ng | divorcing, endorsing, enforcing, forcing, horsing, outsourcing, reinforcing, sourcing. |
| 4 | -r s i ng | parsing, piercing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | accessing, acquiescing, addressing, advancing, affixing, amassing, annexing, announcing, assessing, balancing, basing, blessing, bouncing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, commencing, compressing, condensing, conferencing, confessing, conversing, convincing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, dancing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, denouncing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispensing, dispersing, displacing, distancing, distressing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, engrossing, enhancing, enticing, erasing, expensing, experiencing, expressing, facing, faxing, fencing, financing, fixing, flexing, focusing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, 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, overproducing, pacing, passing, perplexing, piecing, placing, policing, possessing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pronouncing, pulsing, racing, reassessing, rebalancing, recessing, redressing, reducing, referencing, refinancing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, renouncing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, seducing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, servicing, showcasing, silencing, slicing, sluicing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, teleconferencing, tossing, tracing, 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 | |
Direct Anagrams: scouring, sourcing. | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-n-o-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: congius, cursing, rousing, scoring, souring. | |
-2 letters: coigns, corgis, coring, cornus, cosign, cousin, curing, curios, girons, grison, groins, guiros, incogs, incurs, orcins, rosing, signor, soring, unrigs. | |
-3 letters: cions, coign, coins, coirs, conus, corgi, corns, cornu, cuing, curio, curns, girns, giron, giros, grins, groin, guiro, icons, incog, incur, incus, irons, noirs, noris, orcin, orgic, ornis. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-n-o-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: carousing, chorusing, closuring, coursings, obscuring, scourging, scourings, scrouging, succoring. | |
+2 letters: bescouring, chorussing, coinsuring, configures, construing, outcursing, outscoring, refocusing, scroungier, scrounging, succouring, uncrossing, ungracious. | |
+3 letters: chirurgeons, congruities, cornhusking, coruscating, countersign, courtesying, discoursing, fluorescing, grouchiness, incongruous, microfungus, nonsurgical, obstructing, offscouring, outcrossing, outscorning, outsourcing, oversaucing, prefocusing, prosecuting, refocussing, scouthering, scroungiest. | |
+4 letters: churchgoings, congruencies, constructing, cornhuskings, corrugations, countersigns, countersuing, croquignoles, crosscutting, crossruffing, discouraging, glucuronides, graciousness, offscourings, outcroppings, outsourcings, overfocusing, prefocussing, reconfigures, roughcasting, shortcutting, stringcourse, sugarcoating, supercoiling, supercooling, superorganic, underscoring, ungraciously. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Quotations: Spoken 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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