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Date "HING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references) |
"HING" is a common misspelling or typo for: hang, hind, hinge, hint, hung, thing. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Hing // n. [IRC] Fortuitous typo for `hint', now in wide intentional use among players of initgame. Compare newsfroup, filk. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: HING |
| English words defined with "HING": value. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "HING": cow orker ♦ filk ♦ initgame ♦ newsfroup ♦ pr0n. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Ein Toter hing im Netz (1960) Ngoh wai hing kong (1991) Hing dai (1986) San jaat si hing - juk jaap (1985) E tan qun hing ying hui (1976) | |
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Human Rights | Burma | The troops tied up the two men and took them to a military base in Kun Hing town, where they interrogated them regarding the SSA, beat them, and tortured them. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "HING" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "HING" is used about 4 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) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "HING" 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 |
| Hing | Last name | 200 | 35,592 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Hong Kong | Hop Hing Holdings Ltd. | Malaysia | Woo Hing Brothers (Malaya) Berhad |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
li hing mui | 18 | cheong hing man | 2 |
veronica yip yuk hing | 10 | hing lee wa | 2 |
hing | 9 | fuk hing hotel lei | 2 |
hing yip yuk | 7 | chong hing | 2 |
hing hk limited shui | 5 | hing shun square | 2 |
liu chong hing bank | 4 | hing li powder | 2 |
co hing keung ltd manufacturing | 4 | li hing | 2 |
hung hing | 4 | hing wing | 2 |
hing kee ng | 3 | hing sun | 2 |
hing shun | 3 | boy hing hung | 2 |
chong hing jeweler | 3 | hing kwan tak | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "HING": hinge, hinged, hinger, hingers, hinges, hinging. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "HING": aahing, abashing, abolishing, accomplishing, aching, admonishing, airbrushing, airthing, ambushing, anguishing, antilynching, antipoaching, anything, approaching, arching, ashing, astonishing, attaching, autographing, avalanching, avouching, baching, backlashing, backstitching, backwashing, badmouthing, bakshishing, banishing, bashing, batching, bathing, beaching, beclothing, bedrenching, belching, bellyaching, benching, bequeathing, berthing, bescorching, beseeching, besmirching, besmoothing, besoothing, betrothing, bewitching, birching, birthing, bitching, blacksmithing, blanching. (additional references) | |
Words containing "HING": achingly, admonishingly, anhinga, anhingas, anythings, archings, astonishingly, beseechingly, bewitchingly, blacksmithings, blushingly, bonefishings, brainwashings, breathings, breechings, burnishings, bushings, churchings, clinchingly, clothings, couchings, crashingly, crushingly, dashingly, electrofishings, etchings, farthingale, farthingales, farthings, fetchingly, fishings, flashings, fleshings, fletchings, flourishingly, furnishings, gunsmithings, gushingly, hatchings, itchings, languishingly, lashings, lathings, laughingly, laughings, laughingstock, laughingstocks, loathings, locksmithings, lynchings, micropublishings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: nigh. | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-i-n" | |
-1 letter: ghi, gin, hin. | |
-2 letters: hi, in. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-i-n" | |
+1 letter: hinge, hying, neigh, nighs, night, ohing, thing. | |
+2 letters: aahing, aching, ashing, dinghy, eching, grinch, hading, haeing, haling, haring, hating, having, hawing, haying, hazing, hewing, hexing, hiding, hieing, hiking, hinged, hinger, hinges, hiring, hiving, hoeing, hoking, holing, homing, honing, hoping, hosing, hyping, knight, neighs, nighed, nigher, nights, nighty, oohing, shying, things, whinge. | |
+3 letters: afghani, anguish, anhinga, arching, baching, bashing, bathing, bighorn, bushing, caching, cashing, chafing, chagrin, charing, chasing, chawing, chewing, chiding, chignon, chiming, chining, choking, choring, chowing, chuting, coshing, dashing, dishing, echoing, english, etching, fashing, fishing, gahnite, garnish, gashing, gherkin, gingham, gnathic, gnocchi, gnomish, gunship, gushing, hacking, hafting, hagging, hailing, haloing, halting, halving, hamming, handing, hanging, hanking, hanting, happing, harking, harming, harping, hashing, hasping, hasting, hatting, hauling, hawking, hayings, hazings, heading, healing, heaping, hearing, heating, heaving, hedging, heeding, heeling, heezing, hefting, heiling, heiring, helling, helming, helping, helving, hemming, henting, herding, herring, hidings, hilding, hilling, hilting, hindgut, hingers, hinging, hinting, hipping, hissing, histing, hitting, hoaxing, hobbing, hoboing, hocking, hogging, hoising, holding, holking, honking, hooding, hoofing, hooking, hooping, hooting, hopping, hording, horning, horsing, hosting, hotting, housing, howking, howling, huffing, hugging, hulking, hulling, humming, humping, hunting, hurling, hurting, hushing, husking, hutting, hygiene, hymning, hypoing, inching, infight, insight, inveigh, itching, joshing, kithing, knights, kything, lashing, lathing, leching, lighten, longish, lushing, mashing, meshing, miching, moshing, mushing, neighed, niching, nighest, nighing, nightie, nightly, nilghai, nilghau, noshing, nothing, nylghai, ochring, ouching, pashing, peching, phasing, phoning, pishing, pithing, poohing, pushing, rehinge, rhyming, ruching, rushing, sashing, shading, shaking, shaming, shaping, sharing, shaving, shawing, shewing, shindig, shingle, shingly, shining, shoeing, shooing, shoring, shoving, showing, shuting, sighing, sughing, thawing, theming, tholing, thouing, tighten, tithing, tonight, tushing, tything, unhinge, unsight, washing, whaling, whiling, whinged, whinges, whining, whiting, whoring, wishing, withing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 49 4E 47 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0049 004E 0047 |
| 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)42434841 |
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