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Exclaiming

Definition: Exclaiming

Exclaiming

Noun

1. An abrupt excited utterance; "she gave an exclamation of delight"; "there was much exclaiming over it".

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

Date "exclaiming" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonym: Exclaiming

Synonym: exclamation (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Exclaiming

English words defined with "exclaiming": exclamation. (references)
Specialty definitions using "exclaiming": Dagger-scene in the House of CommonsMother EarthRouenyou rock the Catscales. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Exclaiming

"Exclaiming" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Exclaiming" is used about 50 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%5048,117

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

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Modern Translations: Exclaiming

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

Chinese 

  

惊叹 (Exclaim, Exclaimed). (various references)

   

French

  

exclamant. (various references)

   

German

  

ausrufend (proclaiming). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

영탄. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

exclaimingay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Exclaiming"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "exclaiming" (pronounced iksklā"ming)
7-s k l ā" m i ngdisclaiming.
6-k l ā" m i ngacclaiming, claiming, proclaiming, reclaiming.
5-l ā" m i ngblaming, flaming, inflaming.
4-ā" m i ngaiming, framing, gaming, maiming, naming, renaming, shaming, taming.
3-m i ngaffirming, alarming, arming, assuming, barnstorming, beaming, becoming, blooming, blossoming, bombing, booming, bottoming, brainstorming, brimming, calming, charming, climbing, combing, coming, condemning, confirming, conforming, consuming, cramming, damming, damning, daydreaming, deprogramming, diagraming, dimming, disarming, dooming, dreaming, drumming, dumbing, embalming, farming, filming, firebombing, firming, foaming, forming, forthcoming, fuming, gleaming, gloaming, grooming, harming, heartwarming, helming, hemming, homecoming, homing, humming, incoming, informing, jamming, lambing, lemming, liming, looming, mainstreaming, misinforming, mushrooming, nonperforming, numbing, oncoming, outperforming, overcoming, overwhelming, performing, plumbing, presuming, priming, programing, programming, ramming, reaffirming, rearming, redeeming, reforming, reprogramming, resuming, rhyming, roaming, rooming, scheming, screaming, seeming, shortcoming, skimming, slamming, slimming, squirming, steaming, stemming, storming, streaming, strumming, succumbing, summing, swarming, swimming, teaming, teeming, terming, thumbing, timing, transforming, trimming, unassuming, unbecoming, upcoming, vacuuming, warming, welcoming, zooming.

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

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Anagrams: Exclaiming

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-i-l-m-n-x"

-1 letter: climaxing.

-2 letters: claiming, emailing, limacine.

-3 letters: angelic, anglice, calming, ceiling, exclaim, exilian, exiling, galenic, geminal, imagine, mailing, melanic.

-4 letters: ailing, aiming, alexin, aminic, anemic, axenic, cinema, climax, enigma, exilic, gamine, genial, glance, iceman, incage, inlace, lacing, laming, legman, lexica, limina, liming, limnic, linage, lingam, macing, malice, malign, maline, mangel, mangle, menial, milage, mingle, mixing.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Exclaiming


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

45 78 63 6C 61 69 6D 69 6E 67

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

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

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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 01111000 01100011 01101100 01100001 01101001 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#120 &#99 &#108 &#97 &#105 &#109 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0078 0063 006C 0061 0069 006D 0069 006E 0067

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

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

39906978677579758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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