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Definition: Decompressing |
DecompressingNoun1. Relieving pressure. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: DecompressingSynonym: decompression (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: compression (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Decompressing |
| Specialty definitions using "decompressing": Moving JPEG. (references) |
| "Decompressing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Decompressing" is used about 2 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) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
decompressing file par | 4 |
decompressing | 3 |
decompressing file | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "decompressing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 解压 (decompress, decompression). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | staaltraads-muskelsutur (decompressing wire myosuture), aflastende metaltraadssutur (decompressing wire myosuture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | spierhechting van metaaldraad (decompressing wire myosuture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | suture musculaire par fil métallique (decompressing wire myosuture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | dekomprimierend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συρραφή μυός με μετάλλινη κλωστή (decompressing wire myosuture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sutura muscolare con filo metallico (decompressing wire myosuture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 감압 (decompression). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecompressingday sutura muscular por fio metálico (decompressing wire myosuture). (various references) sutura muscular con hilo metálico (decompressing wire myosuture). (various references) uppackningen av. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Decompressing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: desmopressin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-g-i-m-n-o-p-r-s-s" | |
-2 letters: compressing, proceedings. | |
-3 letters: compeering, compressed, congressed, decompress, depressing, depression, endosperms, modernises, necropsied, necropsies, precessing, precession, princedoms, proceeding, processing, recognised, recognises. | |
-4 letters: codesigns, compering, comprised, comprises, congeries, considers, conspired, conspires, cosigners, crimsoned, crispened, demonises, deperming, designers, dispenser, domineers, egression, emersions, endoergic, endosperm, engrossed, genocides, geodesics, impregned, impressed, incorpsed, incorpses, incrossed, indorsees, isoprenes, modernise, pedogenic, preceding, precoding, premedics, prescinds, primeness, princedom, princesse, processed, progenies, promisees, recessing, recession, recognise, redesigns, redispose, reimposed, reimposes, screeding, seconders, serpigoes, smidgeons, specimens, speedings, speerings, spermines. | |
-5 letters: censored, codeines, codesign, cognised, cognises, comedies, compeers, compends, compered, comperes, compress, comprise, congress, consider, conspire, cordings, coreigns, corpsmen, cosigned, cosigner, creeping, crimsons, crispens, crossing, demireps, demoness, demonise, deposers, deposing, dermises, descries, designer, despiser, dioceses, direness, discerns, dispense, disperse, disposer, domineer, dopiness, dressing, dropsies, edginess, emeroids, emersion, emprises, encoders, endemics, endermic, endorses, energids, epiderms, epigones, episodes, episomes, erepsins, eringoes, erogenic, generics, genocide, genoises, geodesic, goriness, gossiped, gossiper, greisens, grimness, impeders, imposers, impregns, impreses, incomers, incorpse, indorsee, indorses, isoprene, mediocre, mendigos, miscodes, misdoers, misspend, modernes, mongered, moperies, necrosed, necroses, necrosis, negroids, ogreisms, peonisms, percoids, perigons, pioneers, precised, precises, precodes, premedic, premised, premises, prescind, presides, pressing, pressmen, primness, princess, prisoned, proceeds, promines, promised, promisee, promises, receding, recoding, recoined, recopied, recopies, redesign, reedings, regimens, reimpose, reposing, rescinds, resigned, responds, response, ripeness, ropiness, scrimped, seceding, seconder, secondes, seemings, semipros, senecios, sermonic, simpered, smidgens, smidgeon, sordines, specimen, speeding, speering, spencers, spenders, spermine, spiremes, spondees, spongers, spongier, springed, springes. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01100011 01101111 01101101 01110000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e c o m p r e s s i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0063 006F 006D 0070 0072 0065 0073 0073 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38716981798284718585758073 |
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