Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Eluding

Definition: Eluding

Eluding

Noun

1. The act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "eluding" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references)

Synonyms: Eluding

Synonyms: elusion (n), slip (n). (additional references)

Top     

 

.

Crosswords: Eluding

English words defined with "eluding": elusive, evasiveundiagnosed. (references)
Etymologies containing "eluding": Elude. (references)

Top     

Commercial Usage: Eluding

DomainTitle

Books

  • Escape Via Berlin: Eluding Franco Hitler's Europe (The Basque Series) (reference)

  • Haunched Twilight: Eluding Pity Parties (reference)

  • Recon: Eluding the Consciousness Trap (reference)

  • Surveillance Countermeasures : A Serious Guide To Detecting, Evading, And Eluding Threats To Personal Privacy (reference)

  • Wilderness Evasion: A Guide to Hiding Out and Eluding Pursuit in Remote Areas (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Image Slideshow: Eluding

Illustrations:
Eluding

More images...

Top     

Usage Frequency: Eluding

"Eluding" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Eluding" is used about 22 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)100%2274,468

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Top     

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Eluding

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

eluding fleeing

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Modern Translations: Eluding

Language Translations for "eluding"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

逃避 (Elude, Eluded, Elusive, Elusiveness, Eschew, Evade, Evaded, Evading). (various references)

   

French

  

évasif (elusive, elusory), éludant. (various references)

   

German

  

ausweichend (cagey, dodging, elusive, elusively, evading, evasive, evasively, flinchingly, quibbling, shiftily, shifty, shunning, swerving). (various references)

   

Italian

  

evasivo (elusory, evasive, non committal). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eludingay

   

Spanish

  

oblicuo (aslant, evasive, mitre, oblique, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise, skew). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Derivations & Misspellings: Eluding

Derivations

Words ending with "eluding": deluding, preluding. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Eluding" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: elding, Eledone, luding. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top     

Rhyming with "Eluding"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "eluding" (pronounced uluw"ding)
6u l uw" d i ngalluding, colluding, deluding.
5-l uw" d i ngconcluding, excluding, including, precluding.
4-uw" d i ngbrooding, denuding, extruding, feuding, intruding, protruding.
3-d i ngabiding, abounding, acceding, according, adding, affording, aiding, amending, applauding, apprehending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, banding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, breeding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, demanding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, encoding, ending, eroding, evading, exceeding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, fading, featherbedding, feeding, fending, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handholding, handing, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, intending, interceding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebounding, rebuilding, receding, recommending, recording, Redding, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, trading, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unloading, unwinding, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wending, wielding, Wilding, winding, withholding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding, yielding.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Top     

Anagrams: Eluding

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dueling, indulge.

Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-l-n-u"

-1 letter: dingle, engild, guiled, gulden, lunged.

-2 letters: deign, dinge, gelid, glide, glued, guide, guild, guile, indue, ingle, lined, luged, lunge, lungi, nudge, nudie, unled.

-3 letters: deil, deli, deni, diel, dine, ding, duel, dune, dung, geld, genu, gied, gien, gild, gled, glen, glue, gude, guid, idle, iglu, lend, leud, lied, lien, lieu, line, ling, lude, luge, lune, lung, nide, nude, unde.

-4 letters: del, den, die, dig, din, due, dug, dui, dun, eld, end, eng, ged, gel, gen, gid, gie, gin, gnu, gul, gun, led, leg, lei, leu, lid, lie, lin, lug, nil.

-5 letters: de, ed, el, en, id, in, li, ne, nu, un.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-l-n-u"
 

+1 letter: deluding, deluging, duelling, indulged, indulger, indulges, ingulfed.

 

+2 letters: belauding, cudgeling, decupling, delousing, depluming, devaluing, duplexing, euglenoid, excluding, guideline, guildsmen, indulgent, indulgers, longitude, loudening, preluding, secluding, unaligned, underling, ungodlier, unleading, unmingled.

 

+3 letters: beclouding, befuddling, bemuddling, blundering, cudgelling, decoupling, defaulting, disgruntle, divulgence, enduringly, euglenoids, guidelines, indulgence, languished, laundering, longitudes, mouldering, mudslinger, outdueling, plundering, precluding, rebuilding, redoubling, scheduling, underlings, underlying, unendingly, ungodliest, unyielding.

 

+4 letters: becudgeling, bludgeoning, decolouring, deglutition, delustering, desulfuring, devaluating, disgruntled, disgruntles, divulgences, elucidating, feudalizing, floundering, geniculated, glucuronide, guillotined, indulgences, indulgently, languidness, mudslingers, outduelling, outyielding, overindulge, shouldering, smouldering, underlaying, underlining, unfeignedly, ungodliness, unsoldering.

 

+5 letters: adulterating, agglutinated, becudgelling, begrudgingly, blunderingly, deglutitions, deliquescing, demodulating, depopulating, deregulating, deregulation, doughnutlike, edulcorating, glucuronides, indigenously, lifeguarding, multipronged, nightclubbed, overbuilding, overclouding, overindulged, overindulges, rescheduling, resoundingly, singularized, thunderingly, triangulated, unbridgeable, undercooling, underlapping, underletting, underlyingly, underplaying, underselling, undervaluing, undigestible, unglamorized, unprivileged, unyieldingly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: Eluding


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 6C 75 64 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    .-..    ..-    -..    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101100 01110101 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#108 &#117 &#100 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006C 0075 0064 0069 006E 0067

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39788770758073

Top     

 

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.