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Definition: Encircling |
EncirclingAdjective1. Being all around the edges; enclosing; "his encircling arms"; "the room's skirting board needs painting". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "encircling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: EncirclingSynonyms: encircling(a) (adj), skirting(a) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Class | Adjective: included, including; Verb: inclusive; congener, congenerous; of the same class; encircling. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Encircling |
| English words defined with "encircling": cingulum, cuff ♦ embrace, encompassing ♦ Fringent ♦ girdle ♦ horseshoes ♦ Lagoon island ♦ Orle ♦ pallium ♦ quoits ♦ Ring spinner ♦ Seed bag, skirting, Staving, surrounding ♦ turnup ♦ Wanderoo ♦ zona, zone. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "encircling": azimuth marker ♦ band dendrometer, Bracelet ♦ dendrograph, diamond-set ring ♦ growth band ♦ Halo, halving becket ♦ lifting strap, lifting strop ♦ Pancreaticoduodenectomy, Pinch Effect ♦ ring of fire, ring-type reaming shell ♦ sadd, sudd ♦ torso harness ♦ Van Allen belts or Van Allen Radiation belts. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "encircling": Fringent. (references) |
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 | Dramatic pictures of eerie disks of dust encircling young stars are giving astronomers a new ... Credit: NASA. |  | A telltale new warp uncovered in a vast, thin disk of dust encircling the star Beta Pictoris ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Workboat holding net prior to ship encircling school of tuna. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Encircling the school of tuna is now complete. The workboat is bringing the end of the net back to the ship so that hauling in can proceed. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Menhaden fishing - purse seine boats encircling a school of menhaden. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Purse and mate boats encircling a school; carry-away boats in waiting. From a sketch by Capt. B.F. Conklin. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | On the north-east and east: from the last point defined above to a point about 3 1/2 kilometres east-north-east of Saint-Wendel: a line to be fixed on the ground passing east of Furschweiler, west of Roschberg, east of points 418, 329 (south of Roschberg) west of Leitersweiler, north-east of point 464, and following the line of the crest southwards to its junction with the administrative boundary of the Kreis of Kusel thence in a southerly direction the boundary of the Kreis of Kusel, then the boundary of the Kreis of Homburg towards the south-south-east to a point situated about 1000 metres west of Dunzweiler; thence to a point about 1 kilometre south of Hornbach- a line to be fixed on the ground passing through point 424 (about 1000 metres south-east of Dunzweiler), point 363 (Fuchs-Berg), point 322 (south-west of Waldmohr), then east of Jagersburg and Erbach, then encircling Homburg, passing through the points 361 (about 2-1/2 kilometres north-east by east of that town), 342 (about 2 kilometres south-east of that town), 347 (Schreiners-Berg), 356, 350 (about 1-1/2 kilometres south-east of Schwarzenbach), then passing east of Einod, south-east of points 322 and 333, about 2 kilometres east of Webenheim, about 2 kilometres east of Mimbach, passing east of the plateau which is traversed by the road from Mimbach to Bockweiler (so as to include this road in the territory of the Saar Basin), passing immediately north of the junction of the roads from Bockweiler and Altheim situated about 2 kilometres north of Altheim, then passing south of Ringweilerhof and north of point 322, rejoining the frontier of France at the angle which it makes about 1 kilometre south of Hornbach (see Map No. 2 scale 1/100,000 annexed to the present treaty). (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In 1832, the encircling wall yet existed |
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Business | The third line is the multiple-loop transmission network which is connected to the other two. A nationwide loop-type transmission network makes it possible to supply power without interruption to a given area and was established in 1988. A 345 kV loop system encircling the Seoul area was also completed in 1992 in order to upgrade the bulk power supply. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HALO, n. Properly, a luminous ring encircling an astronomical body, but not infrequently confounded with "aureola," or "nimbus," a somewhat similar phenomenon worn as a head-dress by divinities and saints. The halo is a purely optical illusion, produced by moisture in the air, in the manner of a rainbow; but the aureola is conferred as a sign of superior sanctity, in the same way as a bishop's mitre, or the Pope's tiara. In the painting of the Nativity, by Szedgkin, a pious artist of Pesth, not only do the Virgin and the Child wear the nimbus, but an ass nibbling hay from the sacred manger is similarly decorated and, to his lasting honor be it said, appears to bear his unaccustomed dignity with a truly saintly grace. |
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| "Encircling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 69.66% of the time. "Encircling" is used about 89 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) | 69.66% | 62 | 42,755 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 30.34% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Total | 100.00% | 89 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "encircling": encircling attack ♦ encircling barrage ♦ encircling force ♦ encircling forces ♦ encircling gill net ♦ encircling gillnet ♦ encircling movement ♦ encircling net. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "encircling": half-encircling. | |
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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 |
encircling | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "encircling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | محوط ب, مطوق (besetting, circumfluent, enclosed, inclosed, ringed, surrounded). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | обходно движение (encircling movement). (various references) | |
Chinese | 包围 (Circumscribe, Circumscribed, Circumscribing, Compassed, Compassing, Encircle, Encircled, encirclement, Envelop, Enveloped, Enveloping, Environ, Environed, Environing). (various references) | |
Danish | en af metoderne til opsamling af olieudslip paa havoverfladen gaar ud paa at omslutte hele eller dele af oliepletten ved hjaelp af oppustelige flydespaerringer (one technique for recovering floating hydrocarbons consists in encircling the whole or part of the slick with floating inflatable booms), ringvej (belt highway, ring road, US encircling highway), ringgade (belt highway, ring road, US encircling highway), ringformet hildingsgarn (encircling gillnet), omslutningsfelt (encircling field), omkredsende net (encircling gill net, encircling net, surrounding net), omkredsende garn (encircling gillnet). (various references) | |
Dutch | een van de terugwinningstechnieken van op het water drijvende koolwaterstoffen bestaat uit het door opblaasbare,drijvende versperringen omgeven van de laag of een gedeelte hiervan (one technique for recovering floating hydrocarbons consists in encircling the whole or part of the slick with floating inflatable booms), verkeersring (belt highway, ring road, US encircling highway), veld rondom (encircling field), rondweg (frankly, openly), ringweg (belt highway, ring road, US encircling highway), ringvormig drijf/net (encircling gillnet), ringnet (encircling gill net, encircling net, hoop net, loop, loop network, looped network, ring network, ring-structured computer network, surrounding net), ringmuur (encircling wall, enclosing wall), ringbaan (belt highway, ring road, US encircling highway), omsluitingsnet (encircling net, surrounding net), omringend vistuig (encircling net, surrounding net), omringend kieuwnet (encircling gillnet), gordelweg (belt highway, ring road, US encircling highway). (various references) | |
Finnish | tarpomisverkko (encircling gill net, encircling gillnet), saartopyydys (bag net, bag shaped net, encircling net, surrounding net). (various references) | |
French | encerclé, ceignant. (various references) | |
German | einkreisend. (various references) | |
Greek | κυκλικά δίχτυα (encircling gill net), κυκλωτικό απλάδι δίχτυ (encircling gillnet), κυκλωτικό δίχτυ (encircling net, surrounding net), μία από τις τεχνικές ανακτήσεως των πετρελαιοκηλίδων συνίσταται στην κύκλωση όλης ή μέρους της κηλίδας με πνευστά πλωτά φράγματα (one technique for recovering floating hydrocarbons consists in encircling the whole or part of the slick with floating inflatable booms), απλάδι περικύκλωσης (encircling gillnet). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אפיפ" (braiding). (various references) | |
Hungarian | körülvevő (ambient, surrounding). (various references) | |
Italian | circondante. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | encirclingay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | envolvimento (encircling force, envelopment, implication, involution, involvement, overlay), rede de emalhar envolvente (encircling gillnet), rede de cerco (encircling net, surrounding net), rede de cercar (encircling net, seine, seine fishing net, surrounding net), cerco (encirclement, encircling force, enclosure, investment, leaguer, siege). (various references) | |
Romanian | încercuire (encirclement). (various references) | |
Russian | группа (bank, bevy, bunch, clump, cluster, cohort, covey, encircling force, gang, group, lot, pack, packet, parcel, party, series, shapeup, team), обход (bypass, encircling manoeuvre, flanker, go round, go-round, pass-by, perambulation, round, visiting round, workarounds), маневр на окружение (encircling manoeuvre), производящая обход (encircling force). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | dejstvo sila (encircling force). (various references) | |
Spanish | envolvimiento (encircling force, envelopment, involvement), una técnica de recuperación de los derrames de hidrocarburos consiste en rodear total o parcialmente la mancha con diques flotantes inflables (one technique for recovering floating hydrocarbons consists in encircling the whole or part of the slick with floating inflatable booms), red de enmalle de cerco (encircling gillnet), red de cerco (encircling net, surrounding net), red de batir de cerco (encircling gillnet), fuerzas de regreso (encircling force), carretera de circunvalación (belt highway, beltway, bypass, ringroad, ringway). (various references) | |
Swedish | pulsnät (encircling gill net), omslutningsfält (encircling field), nät/garn som sätts i cirkelform (encircling gillnet), "stänggarn" (encircling net, surrounding net). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | conplexus, conplexusque. (various references) |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "encircling" (pronounced enser"kuling or enser"kling) |
| 7 | -s er" k u l i ng | circling. |
| 5 | -k u l i ng | bicycling, cackling, cycling, recycling, tinkling, twinkling, wrinkling. |
| 4 | -u l i ng | ambling, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, barreling, battling, belittling, boggling, bottling, bristling, bubbling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, bustling, canceling, cancelling, channeling, chortling, coddling, commingling, counseling, cradling, crippling, crumbling, dabbling, dangling, dazzling, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, doubling, dribbling, drizzling, dwindling, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, entitling, equaling, fizzling, fondling, fumbling, funneling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, groveling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hassling, hobbling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hustling, idling, imperiling, initialing, intermingling, jiggling, jostling, juggling, labeling, leveling, mangling, marshaling, meddling, middling, mingling, mislabeling, modeling, mottling, muddling, mumbling, muscling, nibbling, paddling, paneling, parceling, pedaling, peddling, piddling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quibbling, raveling, redoubling, refueling, remodeling, resembling, reshuffling, reveling, rippling, rivaling, ruffling, rumbling, saddling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, settling, shriveling, shuttling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, spiraling, spiralling, squabbling, stapling, stenciling, strangling, struggling, stumbling, swiveling, tabling, throttling, tingling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, traveling, travelling, trembling, tripling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, unraveling, unsettling, waggling, warbling, wiggling, wobbling, wrangling, yodeling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | annealing, appalling, appealing, ailing, angling, assailing, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, beguiling, Belling, billing, blackmailing, boiling, Bolling, bowling, brawling, broiling, buckling, burgling, burling, cajoling, calling, Carling, ceiling, chilling, chronicling, chuckling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, crawling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, darling, dawdling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doling, drilling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, earthling, emailing, enrolling, entailing, entangling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, galling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, growling, hailing, handling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hilling, holing, howling, hurling, hurtling, inhaling, inkling, installing, instilling, jailing, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, Marling, Melling, milling, mishandling, misspelling, mothballing, mulling, nailing, needling, nestling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, peeling, pickling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, quelling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, reeling, regaling, rekindling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruling, rustling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shuffling, sibling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squealing, stalling, starling, startling, stealing, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strickling, stripling, strolling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, thrilling, Tilling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, trailing, trampling, trickling, trifling, trilling, trolling, twiddling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, wailing, walling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiling, willing, wrestling, yearling, yelling. |
| 4 | -k l i ng | buckling, chronicling, chuckling, crackling, duckling, heckling, inkling, pickling, rankling, sparkling, sprinkling, strickling, suckling, swashbuckling, tackling, trickling, weakling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | annealing, appalling, appealing, ailing, ambling, angling, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, Belling, bicycling, billing, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chilling, chortling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drilling, drizzling, drooling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, enrolling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, helling, hilling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, installing, instilling, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, Melling, middling, milling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, misspelling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, piddling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rappelling, rattling, raveling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, settling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, surveilling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tailing, tangling, telling, thrilling, throttling, Tilling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trifling, trilling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, willing, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yearling, yelling, yodeling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-g-i-i-l-n-n-r" | |
-1 letter: licencing, reclining. | |
-2 letters: circling, clingier, incliner, relining. | |
-3 letters: ceiling, cinerin, clinger, cringle, ginnier, incline, lingier, reining. | |
-4 letters: cering, cilice, circle, cleric, clinic, cringe, ginner, girlie, icicle, inlier, irenic, lignin, linger, linier, lining, ricing, riling. | |
-5 letters: cerci, ceric, cline, cling, genic, genii, icier, icing, ingle, inner, iring, liger, linen, liner, linin, nicer, reign, relic, renig, renin. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-g-i-i-l-n-n-r" | |
+1 letter: reconciling. | |
+4 letters: endocrinologic. | |
+5 letters: anticholinergic, counterclaiming, disconcertingly. | |
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