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Definitions: EARNING |
EARNINGNoun1. That which is earned; wages gained by work or services; money earned; -- used commonly in the plural. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Earn |
Date "EARNING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Crosswords: EARNING |
| English words defined with "EARNING": earning per share ♦ quadruple ♦ strategic buyout. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "EARNING": BAR EXAMINER ♦ Clelia ♦ earning assets, earning capacity, earning power, earning statement ♦ Food security ♦ indtjening per aktie, interest rate risk, interest rate spread ♦ law examiner, Legs ♦ net earnings per share, nonperforming loan ♦ Pot-boilers, price earning ratio, proportionate benefits ♦ reenforcer ♦ self employed, staff employee. (references) |
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Lyrics | Hey, you know I'm really earning now ("The Dean And I"; performing artist: 10CC) | |
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Horace Greeley | The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it. |
Jean Jacques Rousseau | It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | By dint of hard work, courage, perseverance, and will, he had succeeded in earning by his labour about seven hundred francs a year. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The consequences of TBI include a dramatic change in the individual's life-course, profound disruption of the family, enormous loss of income or earning potential, and large expenses over a lifetime. (references) | |
The most basic daily routines may be affected from socializing with friends and enjoying normal and congenial relationships with family members to earning a living and taking care of a home. Faced with a very different life, people need encouragement to remain as active and involved as possible. (references) | ||
Business | Industrial workers average three to four times the minimum wage, earning more at bigger, more advanced and prosperous enterprises. (references) | |
The Shaybah oil field, commissioned in late July 1998, represents a main source of Arab Extra Light crude earning a premium price in the world market. (references) | ||
Despite their encouraging growth and potential, the leasing companies and modarbas are secondary lenders, as these do not have adequate leverage and earning potential of banks. (references) | ||
Economic History | Colombia | A key group is young professionals in their prime earning years. (references) |
Senegal | In 2000, some 500,000 tourists visited Senegal, earning the country $120 million. (references) | |
Tanzania | Tourism is one of the fastest growing foreign exchange earning sectors in Tanzania. (references) | |
Political Economy | CHILE | Persons earning less than approximately $7,000 per year are exempt from income taxes. (references) |
Afghanistan | The drought increased internal displacement and caused massive loss of livestock and other means of earning a living. (references) | |
Ethiopia | Coffee exports account for more than 40 percent of export earnings; hides and skins were the second highest foreign exchange earning exports. (references) | |
Political Rights | Kyrgyz Republic | The Democratic Party of Women participated in the parliamentary elections and won two party seats, earning 13 percent of the party-list votes. (references) |
Travel | Ghana | Ghanaians earning incomes above 48,000,000 cedis (about USD 6,600) per year also attract the same rate. (references) |
Worker Rights | Pakistan | Employees earning more than $47 (PRs 3,120) per month do not receive these benefits. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "EARNING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 95.76% of the time. "EARNING" is used about 801 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) | 95.76% | 767 | 8,964 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.87% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.12% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.12% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.12% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 801 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "EARNING": earning assets ♦ earning capacity ♦ earning per share ♦ earning power ♦ earning statement ♦ incentive earning ♦ price earning ratio. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "EARNING": fee-earning, high-earning, highest-earning, income-earning, interest-earning, non-earning, revenue-earning, wage-earning. | |
Containing "EARNING": profit-earning capacity, propertyless wage-earning working-class blue-collar. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
earning | 211 |
earning from home | 74 |
earning leave statement | 43 |
earning money | 25 |
earning price ratio | 17 |
earning figure give ho more nobody scoop six | 15 |
earning estimate | 10 |
earning extra money | 9 |
earning leave navy statement | 8 |
earning money online | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "EARNING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | كسب (acquire, acquiring, acquisition, attain, earn, gain, gaining, get, get smth. off one's hands, harvest, obtain, obtaining, prize, profit, reap, win, winning), مرتب (in order, orderly, regular, salary, stipend, trim, well arranged, well ordered), المكسوب, ربح (account, bonus, draw, gain, in pocket, increase, increment, jackpot, lucre, make, pay, payoff, pelf, percentage, pocket, profit, prosperity, revenue, win). (various references) | |
Chinese | 赢得 (EARN, Earned). (various references) | |
Danish | erhvervshæmmende svagsyn (decrease of visual power causing earning incapacity), lønmodtagerne (wage earning classes), afkastningsgrad (capital turnover, earning capacity, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital), befordring som jernbanesag (deadhead traffic, non-revenue earning traffic, traffic conveyed on railway service), bonus (bonus, incentive earning, premium), delvis nedsættelse af erhvervsevne (diminution of earning capacity), driftsregnskab (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), Fællesskabsaktion inden for undervisningsteknologi-det teknologiske fremskridt i undervisningens tjeneste i Europa-forsøgsaktion (Community action in the field of learning technologies-D evelopment of E uropean l earning through t echnological a dvance-exploratory action, DELTA), indtægtsskabende aktiver (earning assets), afkastning af kapital (capital turnover, earning capacity, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital), kapitaludbytte (capital turnover, earning capacity, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital), vins-och förlusträkning (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), lønsomhed (earning power, profitability), P/E kvote (price earning ratio, price/earnings ratio), præmie (award, bonus, incentive earning, premium, prize), rentabilitet (capital turnover, earning capacity, earning power, profit earning capacity, profitability, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital), resultatopgørelse (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), resultatregnskap (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), tabs-og vindingskonto (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), tjenestebefordring (deadhead traffic, non-revenue earning traffic, traffic conveyed on railway service), indtjeningsevne (earning power, profitability). (various references) | |
Dutch | winstdragende activa (earning assets), winstcapaciteit (earning power, profitability), werkende bevolking (wage earning classes), verlies-en winstrekening (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), staat van lasten en baten (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), rentabiliteitsratio (capital turnover, earning capacity, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital), rentabiliteit (capital turnover, earning capacity, profit earning capacity, profitability, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital), rendement van kapitaal (capital turnover, earning capacity, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital), premietarief (bonus, incentive earning, premium), premie (bonus, contribution, incentive earning, national insurance contribution, premium, prize, social security contribution), opbrengst uit kapitaal (capital turnover, earning capacity, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital), dienstvervoer (deadhead traffic, non-revenue earning traffic, traffic conveyed on railway service). (various references) | |
Finnish | tuloslaskelma (earning statement, earnings sheet, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), palkkio (bonus, fee, incentive earning, premium, reward, royalty), palkanlisä (bonus, fringe benefits, incentive earning, premium, wage supplements), pääoman tuotto (capital turnover, earning capacity, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital), lainat ja sijoitukset (earning assets), kannattavuus (earning power, profitability, profitableness, viability), bonus (bonus, incentive earning, premium), ansiomahdollisuus (means of earning a livelihood), ansiokyky (capital turnover, earning capacity, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital). (various references) | |
French | salaire, revenus (earnings), profits (earnings), bénéfices (earnings). (various references) | |
German | verdienend (deserving, meriting). (various references) | |
Greek | εισόδημα εκ παγίας συμμετοχής (earning on permanent participations, holdings, permanent participations), οι μισθωτοί (wage earning classes), αποδοτικότητα (actual efficiency, earning power, effectiveness, efficiency, operating efficiency, output, performance, productiveness, profit earning capacity, profitability, work output), αποδοτικότητα του κεφαλαίου (capital turnover, earning capacity, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital), απόδοση του κεφαλαίου (capital turnover, earning capacity, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital), απόδοση κεφαλαίου (capital turnover, earning capacity, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital), δάνεια και επενδύσεις (earning assets), λογαριασμός κερδών και ζημιών (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), Κοινοτική δράση στον τομέα των τεχνολογιών της μάθησης-ανάπτυξη των μεθόδων μάθησης στην Ευρώπη με τη βοήθεια των προηγμένων τεχνολογιών- (Community action in the field of learning technologies-D evelopment of E uropean l earning through t echnological a dvance-exploratory action, DELTA), η κατηγορία των μισθωτών (wage earning classes), πτώσις της οράσεως προκαλούσα ανικανότητα εργασίας (decrease of visual power causing earning incapacity), πρίμ (bonus, incentive earning, premium), μεταφορά υπηρεσιακή (deadhead traffic, non-revenue earning traffic, traffic conveyed on railway service), μερική ανικανότητα (diminution of earning capacity), σχέση τιμής-κέρδους (P/E ratio, price earning ratio, price/earnings ratio), λογαριασμός κερδών ή ζημιών (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "שתכרות. (various references) | |
Hungarian | keresőképesség (earning capacity). (various references) | |
Italian | guadagno (accession, account, acquisition, advantage, benefit, earnings, efficiency, gain, increment, proceeds, profit, reward). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 収益率 (earning rate), 共稼ぎ (husband and wife earning a living, working together), 共稼ぎ (earning a living together, working together), 先取 (earning the first, preoccupation). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅうえきりつ (earning rate), せ"しゅ (bow, earning the first, former master, late master, player, preoccupation, shipowner, slender hand, team, tyrant, usurpation, usurper), ともかせぎ (earning a living together, working together). (various references) | |
Korean | 벌음. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | earningay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | transporte em serviço (deadhead traffic, non-revenue earning traffic, traffic conveyed on railway service), rentabilidade (profit earning capacity, profitability, profitable), rendimento do capital (capital turnover, earning capacity, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital), rendibilidade (earning power, profit earning capacity, profitability), rendabilidade (profit earning capacity, profitability), participações financeiras (earning on permanent participations, holdings, permanent participations), ganhos de participações financeiras permanentes (earning on permanent participations, holdings, permanent participations), diminuição da acuidade visual com incapacidade para o trabalho (decrease of visual power causing earning incapacity), conta de resultados de exercício (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), conta de resultados (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), conta de perdas e lucros (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), conta de lucros e perdas (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), conta de ganhos e perdas (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), assalariado (employee, journeyman, Pensionary, salaried, salaried worker, stipendiary, wage earner, wage earning classes, wage worker), Acção Comunitária no domínio das Tecnologias Educativas,Desenvolvimento do Ensino Europeu através do Processo Tecnológico-Acção Exploratória (Community action in the field of learning technologies-D evelopment of E uropean l earning through t echnological a dvance-exploratory action, DELTA). (various references) | |
Russian | зарабатывать заработок;поступление. (various references) | |
Scottish | cosnadh (See <A HREF="mf03.html#coisinn">coisinn</A>). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sticanje (acquisition, purchase). (various references) | |
Spanish | ganancia (accession, acquisition, asset, benefit, gain, haul, moneymaking, profit, return, revenue). (various references) | |
Swedish | avkastningsförmåga (capital turnover, cultural value, earning capacity, earning power, profitability, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital). (various references) | |
Turkish | para kazanma (money making), kazanma (achievement, acquirement, acquisition, attainment, gaining, obtainment, win, winning). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "EARNING": earnings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "EARNING": learning, mislearning, nonearning, outearning, outlearning, overlearning, reearning, relearning, unlearning, yearning. (additional references) | |
Words containing "EARNING": learnings, nonearnings, yearningly, yearnings. (additional references) | |
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"EARNING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bearning, earing, earling, earnign, earnning, Earnwine, eiring, Eirinn, Erannis, Ewanrigg, kearning, larning. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "EARNING" (pronounced er"ning) |
| 4 | er" n i ng | adjourning, burning, churning, concerning, discerning, Durning, learning, returning, spurning, turning, yearning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abandoning, abstaining, adjoining, aligning, apportioning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, Dinning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aginner, engrain, grannie, nearing. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-n-r" | |
-1 letter: earing, gainer, ginner, inaner, narine, reagin, regain, regina. | |
-2 letters: anger, garni, grain, inane, inner, range, regna, reign, renig, renin. | |
-3 letters: ager, agin, airn, earn, gaen, gain, gane, gear, gien, girn, gnar, gran, grin, near, nine, rage, ragi, rain, rang, rani, rein, ring. | |
-4 letters: age, ain, air, ane, ani, are, ear, eng, era, erg, ern, gae, gan, gar, gen, gie, gin, inn, ire, nae, nag, nan, rag, ran, reg, rei, ria, rig, rin. | |
-5 letters: ae, ag, ai, an, ar, en, er, in, na, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-n-r" | |
+1 letter: aginners, anearing, angering, arginine, earnings, engrains, enraging, grannies, learning, ravening, recaning, renaming, yearning. | |
+2 letters: angriness, answering, argentine, arginines, bannering, bantering, brazening, cankering, cantering, careening, caverning, cravening, dandering, dangering, darkening, deranging, enamoring, endearing, enframing, engrained, engraving, enlarging, ensnaring, gandering, gannister, gardening, garnering, grenadine, hankering, hardening, harkening, ignorance, ingrained, integrand, intergang, learnings, nattering, omnirange, organzine, pandering, parenting, ranginess, rattening, ravenings, reasoning, recanting, reearning, regaining, rehanging, reloaning, remaining, remanding, remanning, renailing, retaining, tangerine, unbearing, wandering, yearnings. | |
+3 letters: androgenic, argentines, astringent, bartending, begroaning, blarneying, brigandine, brigantine, broadening, carcinogen, chagrinned, coarsening, daringness, daundering, denaturing, deraigning, detraining, enamouring, enervating, engrafting, engrailing, engraining, engravings, ensnarling, entraining, entrancing, entrapping, entreating, enwrapping, estranging, fingernail, frangipane, gangrening, gannisters, garmenting, generating, generation, gingersnap, graininess, grandniece, greatening, grenadines, gynandries, hardenings, harnessing, harshening, hearkening, heartening, herniating, hoarsening, ignorances, impregnant, increasing, inearthing, integrands, interabang, interorgan, interregna, intragenic, intreating, laundering, margenting, maundering, meandering, nonbearing, nonearning, nonreading, numerating, omniranges, organzines, outearning, parentings, partnering, patterning, pertaining, prewarning, preweaning, readorning, realigning, reannexing, reasonings, rechanging, recleaning, reenacting, reengaging, refraining, regnancies, regranting, rehandling, reinvading, relearning, renaturing, renegading, renovating, repainting, repaneling, replanning, replanting, resinating, resonating, retraining, rewakening, sanderling, sauntering, serenading, sharpening, slandering, smartening, tangerines, transgenic, trepanning, uncreating, unearthing, ungainlier, unlearning, unraveling, unswearing, untreading, unwavering, venerating, wanderings, yearningly. | |
+4 letters: adventuring, alternating, anagnorises, ancestoring, androgynies, angrinesses, anteverting, antiforeign, arraignment, astringency, astringents, banteringly, baserunning, bedarkening, brigandines, brigantines, calendaring, calendering, carcinogens, carrageenin, centimorgan, chaperoning, coenamoring, darlingness, denervating, denigrating, denigration, embrangling, encouraging, encroaching, endangering, endearingly, endeavoring, enrapturing, enravishing, enthralling, enumerating, enwreathing, exonerating, fingernails, firefanging, forewarning, fragmenting, frangipanes, freelancing, garnishment, generations, germanizing, germinating, germination, gingersnaps, glaringness, grandnieces, gratineeing, handwringer, hibernating, impregnants, inbreathing, inebriating, infrangible, ingathering, ingrainedly, innervating, integrating, integration, interabangs, interacting, interagency, interchange, interfacing, interlacing, interlaying, interrobang, itinerating, lavendering, legionnaire, linearising, linearizing, malingering, maneuvering, manoeuvring, merchanting, mislearning, nitrogenase, nonallergic, nonearnings, nonintegral, orientating, ornamenting, outlearning, overhanding, overhanging, overmanning, patternings, penetrating, perennating, personating, precleaning, preenacting, prefranking, pregnancies, preplanning, preplanting, pretraining, promenading, ranginesses, reaccenting, realignment, reanalyzing, reanimating, reanointing, rearranging, reascending, reassigning, reattaining, reawakening, rebalancing, rebranching, redemanding, reengraving, reexamining, refastening, refinancing, rehardening, reimagining, reinflating, reinstating, relaunching, reobtaining, reordaining, repanelling, reseasoning, resignation, restraining, ropedancing, sanderlings, squandering, straitening, strangering, terminating, threatening, tragedienne, transecting, trapnesting, underacting, undereating, underlaying, underpaying, underrating, undertaking, undertaxing, unendearing, unfaltering, ungarnished, unignorable, unorganized, unravelling, unreasoning, unrewarding, unthreading, unwreathing, vernalizing. | |
+5 letters: androgenesis, androgenetic, anorexigenic, antiestrogen, antireligion, appertaining, apprehending, apprenticing, arraignments, ascertaining, astringently, baserunnings, benchmarking, boomeranging, breadwinning, buccaneering, carcinogenic, carpentering, carrageenins, centimorgans, centralising, centralizing, cocarcinogen, cogeneration, congregating, congregation, consecrating, contravening, copartnering, daringnesses, degenerating, degeneration, denigrations, deracinating, emargination, endeavouring, energization, engarlanding, entertaining, entreatingly, eternalizing, exenterating, fraternizing, freestanding, garnisheeing, garnishments, generalising, generalizing, generational, germinations, graininesses, graspingness, grecianizing, greenmailing, guaranteeing, handwringers, harbingering, heartburning, hearteningly, heartrending, ignorantness, impregnating, impregnation, incinerating, increasingly, ingatherings, integrations, intenerating, interchanged, interchanger, interchanges, interfacings, intergrading, interlapping, interlarding, interleaving, interplaying, interrobangs, interspacing, interweaving, intransigent, keratinizing, kindergarten, legionnaires, menstruating, mineralising, mineralizing, neutralising, neutralizing, newspapering, nitrogenases, nonagenarian, nonbreathing, nonirrigated, nonoperating, nonstrategic, octogenarian, overcleaning, overhandling, overlearning, overmanaging, overplanning, overplanting, oversanguine, overtraining, paperhanging, philandering, prearranging, preassigning, precanceling, prefinancing, premalignant, preordaining, realignments, reappointing, reassignment, recanalizing, rechanneling, recognizance, recontacting, refashioning, regenerating, regeneration, rehumanizing, reimplanting, reinhabiting, reinitiating, reinstalling, rejuvenating, remaindering, remunerating, renominating, reorganizing, repatterning, reprimanding, repugnancies, resignations, ropedancings, sandpapering, sexagenarian, sloganeering, streamlining, tabernacling, tragediennes, transcending, transfecting, transferring, undercoating, underlapping, underplaying, understating, undertakings, undervaluing, unflattering, ungerminated, unharnessing, unintegrated, unwaveringly, urinogenital, warmongering. | |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .- .-. -. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01000001 01010010 01001110 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E A R N I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0041 0052 004E 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39355248434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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