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Definition: Groundbreaking |
GroundbreakingNoun1. The ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: GroundbreakingSynonym: groundbreaking ceremony (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Groundbreaking |
| English words defined with "groundbreaking": groundbreaking ceremony. (references) |
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 | Members of the first National Advisory Cancer Council at the groundbreaking ceremonies at the NCI's building 6 in June, 1938. (Left to right) Francis Wood, C.C Little, James Ewing, Arthur Compton, James Conant, Thomas Parran, and Ludwig Hektoen. This new building, erected on land donated by Mrs. Luke J. Wilson was the fourth to be constructed in the complex that is now the National Institutes of Health. The structure was unique in that year of 1939, with its physical equipment and facilities designed solely for scientific research in a specialized field of science. Building 6 was to house the National Cancer Institute, the first of the nine specialized institutes that would comprise NIH. See also ar003810. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | [Arthur Fleming addresses a gathering at the groundbreaking ceremony]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Side view of the participants on the platform at the groundbreaking ceremony]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Secretary Fleming speaking with three NLM supporters at the groundbreaking ceremony]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Senator Hill addresses a gathering at the groundbreaking ceremony]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Speaking during groundbreaking ceremonies for the Grace M. Hopper Regional Data Automation Center, at Naval Air Station, North Island, California, 27 September 1985. Photographed by PH2 Michael Flynn. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Attends groundbreaking ceremonies for the Grace M. Hopper Navy Regional Data Automation Center at Naval Air Station, North Island, California, 27 September 1985. Photographed by PH2 Michael Flynn. Credit: NAVY. | ||
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Business | The renewed commitment to the U.K. followed a groundbreaking pay and conditions deal with the unions. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Korea | Foreign journalists also were allowed to report on the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) light-water reactor groundbreaking at Kumho in 1997. Although more foreign journalists have been allowed into the country, the Government still maintains strict control over the movements of foreign visitors. (references) |
Economic History | North Korea | On September 18, R.O.K. President Kim Dae-jung presided over a groundbreaking ceremony for the planned re-linking of the Seoul-Sinuiju railway line, which crosses through the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). (references) |
North Korea | KEDO subsequently identified Sinpo as the LWR project site and held a groundbreaking ceremony in August 1987. In December 1999, KEDO and KEPCO signed the Turnkey Contract (TKC), permitting full-scale construction of the LWRs. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | That's why I would like to ask you again to finalize our groundbreaking African and Caribbean Basin trade initiatives. |
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| "Groundbreaking" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Groundbreaking" is used about 6 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 66.67% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "groundbreaking": groundbreaking ceremony. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
ceremony groundbreaking | 7 |
groundbreaking | 5 |
ceremony groundbreaking speech | 3 |
groundbreaking speech | 3 |
groundbreaking shovel | 2 |
groundbreaking hospital | 2 |
groundbreaking invitation | 2 |
building groundbreaking office | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "groundbreaking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 起工式 (groundbreaking or cornerstone-laying ceremony). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | き"うしき (groundbreaking or cornerstone-laying ceremony). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oundbreakinggray значительный (big, considerable, distinguish, epoch making, handsome, humungous, important, of great importance, pretty, sizable, sizeable, tidy). (various references) banbrytande (pioneering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "groundbreaking" (pronounced grou"ndbrā'king or grou"nbrā'king) |
| 6 | -b r ā' k i ng | heartbreaking, lawbreaking. |
| 5 | -r ā' k i ng | muckraking. |
| 4 | -ā' k i ng | bookmaking, breathtaking, dressmaking, earthshaking, filmmaking, glassmaking, handshaking, homemaking, lawmaking, matchmaking, moneymaking, moviemaking, overtaking, painstaking, papermaking, peacemaking, steelmaking, undertaking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | aching, antismoking, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, braking, breaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, fucking, gawking, hacking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, mucking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, packing, panicking, parking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
| 6 | -b r ā' k i ng | heartbreaking, lawbreaking. |
| 5 | -r ā' k i ng | muckraking. |
| 4 | -ā' k i ng | bookmaking, breathtaking, dressmaking, earthshaking, filmmaking, glassmaking, handshaking, homemaking, lawmaking, matchmaking, moneymaking, moviemaking, overtaking, painstaking, papermaking, peacemaking, steelmaking, undertaking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | aching, antismoking, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, braking, breaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, fucking, gawking, hacking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, mucking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, packing, panicking, parking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-g-g-i-k-n-n-o-r-r-u" | |
-4 letters: begroaning, broadening, budgerigar, burgeoning, guerdoning, readorning, reboarding, rebounding, redarguing, ringbarked, undergoing. | |
-5 letters: abounding, badgering, bordering, brokering, bunkering, burdening, dangering, darkening, debarking, debarring, debunking, deranging, dogearing, gandering, gardening, garnering, grounding, rearguing, regarding, regrading, unbarring, unbearing, unbraking. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 72 6F 75 6E 64 62 72 65 61 6B 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .-. --- ..- -. -.. -... .-. . .- -.- .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01110010 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 01100010 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G r o u n d b r e a k i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0072 006F 0075 006E 0064 0062 0072 0065 0061 006B 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4184818780706884716777758073 |
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