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Definitions: Fielding |
FieldingNoun1. (in baseball) handling the ball while playing in the field. 2. English novelist and dramatist (1707-1754). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fielding" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Fielding The Fièlding of the drama. George Farquhar, author of the Beaux' Stratagem, etc. (1678-1707.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fielding, Utah."
Synonym: FieldingSynonym: Henry Fielding (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Fielding |
| English words defined with "fielding": Andrew Fielding Huxley ♦ center field ♦ dusky ♦ fielder, fielding average, fieldsman, first, first base ♦ Henry Fielding ♦ left field ♦ mid-off, mid-on ♦ putout ♦ right field ♦ second, second base, short ♦ third, third base, twilight, twilit. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fielding": Blind Magistrate ♦ CROSS BUTTOCK ♦ Joseph Andrews ♦ Man of the Hill ♦ Parson Adams. (references) |
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Screenplays | I have to tell you something, and I don't know how to break it. Oh, Fielding (Bananas; writing credit: Woody Allen; Mickey Rose) You're immature, Fielding. (Bananas; writing credit: Woody Allen; Mickey Rose) | |
Clever | We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions. (references; author: Fielding) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Chief Lemuel Occum Fielding, his daughter Mrs. Myrtle Germaine, and his son, Everett M. Fielding, seated, full-length portrait, facing front.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A startling melodrama, A ragged hero by Maurice J. Fielding.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Henry Fielding | Where the law ends tyranny begins. |
| All nature wears one universal grin. | |
| One fool at least in every married couple. | |
| What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow. | |
| Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. | |
| Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us. | |
| Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it. | |
| Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. | |
| When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief. | |
| . . . composed that monstrous animal, a husband and wife. | |
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Business | Second in priority for equipment fielding and upgrades will be the Danish contingent of the MultiNational Corps NorthEast. (references) | |
Much of this new equipment is now being delivered, requiring fielding and logistic support as the Taiwan military puts the new systems into their operational inventory. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Tanzania | Unregistered parties are prohibited from holding meetings, recruiting members, or fielding candidates. (references) |
Ghana | In the period prior to the 2000 presidential and parliamentary elections, the government-owned television and radio stations allotted equal broadcasting time to each of the parties fielding presidential candidates, although news coverage of government activities such as the commissioning of projects favored the ruling party. (references) | |
Political Economy | Nicaragua | Three parties are fielding candidates in the legislative and presidential elections scheduled for November 2001. (references) |
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| "Fielding" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 62.28% of the time. "Fielding" is used about 464 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 |
| Noun (proper) | 62.28% | 289 | 17,124 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 37.72% | 175 | 23,506 |
| Total | 100.00% | 464 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "fielding" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Fielding | Last name | 2,000 | 5,876 |
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1. Fielding, UT (town, FIPS 25290) |
Expressions using "fielding": Andrew Fielding Huxley ♦ fielding average ♦ Henry Fielding. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "fielding": schwegmann-fielding. | |
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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. |
| Language | Translations for "fielding"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | auffangend (catching, intercepting). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | γγ£γΌγγγγ―εΆεΎ‘ (feedback control, feed-forward, feeling, fever, field, field archery, field athletic, field goal, field map, field note, fieldman, Fields, fieldwork). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | γγ£γΌγ«γγ£γ³γ° . (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ieldingfay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "fielding": misfielding. (additional references) | |
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"Fielding" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Faulding, feldene, Fidelina, Fieding, Fieldings, Filein, fileing, Frieling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fielding" (pronounced fē"lding) |
| 5 | -ē" l d i ng | shielding, unyielding, wielding, yielding. |
| 4 | -l d i ng | balding, beholding, building, folding, gilding, handholding, heralding, holding, landholding, Melding, molding, moulding, nonbuilding, overbuilding, rebuilding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, shipbuilding, unfolding, upholding, welding, Wilding, withholding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | abiding, abounding, acceding, according, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, amending, applauding, apprehending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, banding, bedding, beheading, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, finding, flooding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handing, heading, heeding, herding, hiding, hoarding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebounding, receding, recommending, recording, Redding, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, 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, unloading, unwinding, upgrading, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, wending, winding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: defiling. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-g-i-i-l-n" | |
-1 letter: eliding, infidel, infield. | |
-2 letters: dieing, dingle, engild, filing, idling. | |
-3 letters: deign, dinge, elfin, feign, felid, fidge, field, fiend, filed, fined, flied, fling, gelid, genii, glide, indie, ingle, lined. | |
-4 letters: defi, deil, delf, deli, deni, diel, dine, ding, fend, file, find, fine, fled, geld, gied, gien, gild, gled, glen, idle, lend, lied, lief, lien, life. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-g-i-i-l-n" | |
+1 letter: lignified. | |
+2 letters: defilading, enfilading, girlfriend, grainfield. | |
+3 letters: deadlifting, defoliating, feudalizing, girlfriends, grainfields, misfielding. | |
+4 letters: decalcifying, federalizing, interfolding, lifeguarding. | |
+5 letters: declassifying, deformalizing, desulfurizing, indefatigable, indefatigably, resolidifying. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 69 65 6C 64 69 6E 67 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .. . .-.. -.. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101001 01100101 01101100 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i e l d i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 0065 006C 0064 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4075717870758073 |
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