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GANGING

Specialty Definition: GANGING

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

A thin strong line by which a hook is attached to the main or back line of a troll or longline. Source: European Union. (references)
 Connecting piece between the fishing line and the hook. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Date "GANGING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references)


Crosswords: GANGING

Etymologies containing "GANGING": Gange. (references)
Non-English Usage: "GANGING" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Faeroese (walking).

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

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Synonyms: GANGING

Synonyms by domain: branch line (food & agriculture), cast, gangion, snell, snood.

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Usage Frequency: GANGING

"GANGING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GANGING" is used about 28 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%2865,706

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

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Expressions: GANGING

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "GANGING": press-ganging, stake-ganging.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GANGING

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

ganging

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: GANGING

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

Danish

  

tavs (branch line, cast, gangion, snell, snood), forfang (branch line, cast, gangion, snell, snood). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

sneu (branch line, cast, gangion, snell, snood), lijn (rope). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tapsi (branch line, cast, gangion, snell, snood), peruke (branch line, cast, gangion, snell, snood). (various references)

   

French

  

ligne secondaire (gangion), empile (gangion), bas de ligne (gangion), avançon (gangion). (various references)

   

German

  

Vorfach (cast, gangion, snell, snood), Mundschnur (branch line, cast, gangion, snell, snood). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

παράμαλλο (branch line, cast, gangion, snell, snood). (various references)

   

Italian

  

setale (cast, gangion, snell, snood), bracciolo (arm, armrest), basso di lenza (cast, gangion, snell, snood). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

袋叩き (beat someone up by ganging up on). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ふくろ たき (beat someone up by ganging up on). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

anginggay

   

Portuguese

  

estrobo (branch line, cast, gangion, snell, snood), estralho (branch line, cast, gangion, snell, snood), baixada (coomb, holm, lowland). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

brazolada (branch line, gangion, snell, snood). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tafs (Snell, trace). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: GANGING

Misspellings

"GANGING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anging, gan-gan, gangi, ganning, gaoging, gingeng, Gingin, Guangyi, gungeing, Gungung. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "GANGING"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "GANGING" (pronounced ga"nging)
4-a" ng i ngbanging, clanging, hanging, haranguing.
3-ng i ngbelonging, bringing, clinging, flinging, longing, mudslinging, overhanging, prolonging, ringing, singing, slinging, springing, stinging, stringing, swinging, upbringing, winging, wringing.

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

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Anagrams: GANGING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: nagging.

Words within the letters "a-g-g-g-i-n-n"

-1 letter: gaging.

-2 letters: aging.

-3 letters: agin, gain, gang, giga.

-4 letters: ain, ani, gag, gan, gig, gin, inn, nag, nan.

-5 letters: ag, ai, an, in, na.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-g-g-i-n-n"
 

+1 letter: engaging, gangling, snagging.

 

+2 letters: naggingly, waggoning.

 

+3 letters: engagingly, gaingiving, gangrening, niggarding, reengaging, unflagging.

 

+4 letters: antifogging, disengaging, gaingivings, sandbagging, tobogganing.

 

+5 letters: agglutinogen, aggrandising, aggrandizing, congregating, tobogganings, unflaggingly.

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

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INDEX

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


  

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