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Definition: Curdling |
CurdlingAdjective1. Turning into a solid mass: "I waited for her to materialize out of the clogging curdling crowd". Noun1. The process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "curdling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references) |
Synonyms: CurdlingSynonyms: clotting (n), coagulation (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Curdling |
| English words defined with "curdling": Rennet ferment ♦ Yearnings. (references) |
| "Curdling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "Curdling" is used about 12 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) | 91.67% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "curdling": blood-curdling, cream-curdling, ear-curdling, flesh-curdling, mud-curdling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "curdling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 凝" (Clotted, Clotting, Coagulative, Congeal, Congealed, Congealing, Curded, Curding, Curdle, Curdled). (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | juoksettuminen (clotting, coagulation). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | coagulation du lait, coagulation, caillage du lait. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | verdickung (bulge, coagulation, setting, strengthening, swelling, thickening, widening), stockung (break, breakdown, congestion, hesitation, hold up, hold-up, interruption, jam, lull, pause, slackening off, standstill, thickening, traffic jam), gerinnung (clotting, coagulation). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | πήξη του γάλακτος. (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 凝結 (coagulation, congealing, freezing, setting, solidification). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぎょうけつ (blood clot, coagulation, congealing, curdle, freezing, setting, solidification). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 응결시킴 (Curding). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | urdlingcay coagulare (clotting, coagulation). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | pektikos. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "curdling": bloodcurdling. (additional references) | |
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"Curdling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Churdjin, churdling, Cidrolin, crudding, Cruidlin, curbling, curdil. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-g-i-l-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: curding, curling. | |
-2 letters: cluing, curing, during, luring, ruling, ungird. | |
-3 letters: cling, clung, cuing, grind, guild, incur, lucid, ludic, lungi, lurid, ruing, runic, unrig. | |
-4 letters: crud, curd, curl, curn, ding, dirl, drug, duci, dung, durn, gild, gird, girl, girn, grid, grin, guid, iglu, ling, lung, nurd, nurl, rind, ring, ruin, rung, unci, uric. | |
-5 letters: cig, cud. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-g-i-l-n-r-u" | |
+2 letters: precluding, ridiculing. | |
+3 letters: decolouring, glucuronide. | |
+4 letters: edulcorating, glucuronides, overclouding, rescheduling, undercooling. | |
+5 letters: blackguarding, bloodcurdling, glucuronidase, prescheduling, reduplicating, underclothing. | |
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