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Definition: Heckling |
HecklingNoun1. Shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Industry | A combing process for scutched flax; the short fibers, neps and foreign matter are removed, and the remaining fiber is straightned and separated(BTM). Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: HecklingSynonym: barracking (n). (additional references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Heckling Hare (1941) | |
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| "Heckling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Heckling" is used about 12 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) | 50% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
heckling | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "heckling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مقاطعة الخطيب. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 质问 (debrief, debriefing, heckle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | hegling (hackling, hatcheling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | hekelen (hackling, hatcheling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sérançage, peignage, interpellation, chahut. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Hecheln (dressing, gossip, hackling, hatchel, hatcheling, heckle, pant, tease out), zwischenrufe (interjections). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χτένισμα (combing, hackling, hair do, hatcheling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קריאת בי ים (ejaculation, interjection, interpolation, interruption). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kötözködés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pettinatura (coiffure, combing, drawing lines, hackling, hair style, hairdo, hairstyle, haistyle, hatcheling, headdress, lines, piano lines). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 半畳 (half mat, hissing), 弥次 (hooting, jeering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | やじ (hooting, jeering), は"じょう (flourishing, half mat, hissing, prosperity, thriving, variegated streaks). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | trasnaght. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecklinghay penteação (combing, hackling, hatcheling). (various references) peinado (coiffure, combing, drawing lines, hackling, hair style, hairdo, hairstyle, haistyle, hatcheling, headdress, lines, piano lines, worsted), interrupción de protesta. (various references) häckling (dressing, hackling). (various references) sorularla sıkıştırma. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Heckling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Meckling, reckling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "heckling" (pronounced he"kling) |
| 4 | -k l i ng | buckling, chronicling, chuckling, crackling, duckling, inkling, pickling, rankling, sparkling, sprinkling, strickling, suckling, swashbuckling, tackling, trickling, weakling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | ailing, ambling, angling, annealing, appalling, appealing, 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, encircling, 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. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-g-h-i-k-l-n" | |
-1 letter: leching. | |
-2 letters: eching, lichen, nickel, nickle. | |
-3 letters: chiel, chile, chine, chink, cline, cling, clink, eking, genic, hinge, ingle, inkle, kench, liken, neigh, niche. | |
-4 letters: ceil, chin, cine, elhi, geck, gien, gink, glen, heck, heil, hick, hike, inch, kiln, kine, king, lech, lice, lich, lick, lien, like, line, ling, link, neck, nice, nick, nigh. | |
-5 letters: cel, chi, cig, elk, eng, gel, gen, ghi, gie, gin, hen, hic, hie, hin, ice, ich, ick, ilk, ink, keg, ken, khi, kin, leg, lei, lek, lie, lin, nil. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-g-h-i-k-l-n" | |
+2 letters: bechalking. | |
+3 letters: shellacking. | |
+4 letters: schnorkeling, shellackings. | |
| 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)48 65 63 6B 6C 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . -.-. -.- .-.. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01100011 01101011 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e c k l i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0063 006B 006C 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4271697778758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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