Inclining

Definition: Inclining

Inclining

Noun

1. The act of inclining; bending forward; "an inclination of his head indicated his agreement".

Date "inclining" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonym: Inclining

Synonym: inclination (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Inclining

English words defined with "inclining": Bank-sided, Bevelled ♦ Dipping ♦ inclination, Inclinatory, Inclinnation ♦ Propendent ♦ Shelving, Sideling, sidelong ♦ take a bow ♦ Yttro-cerite. (references)

Specialty definitions using "inclining": ALL ASKEW ♦ inclining experiment, inclining test ♦ John Drum's Entertainment ♦ PARTIAL ♦ SKEWVOW. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	The inclining arc is the future. (Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution; writing credit: Jean-Luc Godard; Paul Éluard)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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	Tripod top for inclining camera at any angle. In: Reighard , Jacob, 1907, "The Photography of Aquatic Animals in Their Natural Environment. " Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVII, 1907, pp. 41-68.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.		Shown during an inclining experiment at the Norfolk Navy Yard on 13 November 1945.Credit: NAVY.
	View of the starboard side amidships, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 27 June 1942, following repair of combat damage and an overhaul. Note the ship's redesigned forward superstructure, including an open bridge and reduced lower bridge wings. Mark 34 main battery gun director, with antenna for an FC gunfire control radar, is immediately in front of the foremast. The other director, just behind the open bridge, is a Mark 33, with antenna for an FD radar mounted on its front. Weight traversing gear on the main deck, between the forward superstructure and 6"/47 gun turret # 3, indicates that Helena is undergoing an inclining experiment to determine her stability.Credit: NAVY.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Inclining" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inclining" is used about 36 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)	100%	36	57,479

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "inclining".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Sorek	N/A	Biblical	A color inclining to yellow
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "inclining": inclining experiment ♦ inclining test. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "inclining"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		倾斜 (Canting, inclined, lean, Leaned, leaning, Leant, Oblique, raked, raking, slanted, slanting, slope, sloped, sloping). (various references)

Danish		krængningsprøve (inclination test, inclining experiment, inclining test, stability test), krængningsforsøg (inclination test, inclining experiment, inclining test, stability test), krængningsafprøvning (inclining experiment). (various references)

Dutch		stabiliteitsproef (inclination test, inclining experiment, inclining test, stability test), hellingproef (inclination test, inclining experiment, inclining test, stability test). (various references)

Finnish		vakavuuskoe (inclination test, inclining experiment, inclining test, stability test). (various references)

French		inclinant. (various references)

German		sich neigend, neigend (prone, slanting, sloping, tending, warping). (various references)

Greek		πείραμα ευστάθειας (inclination test, inclining experiment, inclining test, stability test), δοκιμή ευστάθειας (inclination test, inclining experiment, inclining test, stability test). (various references)

Indonesian		condong (inclined, inclining to, leaning, set, symphatetic). (various references)

Italian		prova d'inclinazione (inclination test, inclining experiment, inclining test, stability test), prova di stabilit� trasversale (inclining experiment), prova di stabilit� (inclination test, inclining experiment, inclining test, stability test). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		偏 (biased, inclining toward, left radical of a character, side). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		へ�" (area, biased, book, change, compilation, completed poem, disturbance, eccentric, editing, flat, funny, incident, inclining toward, left radical of a character, odd, part of book, peculiar, queer, side, strange, suspicious-looking, vicinity). (various references)

Korean		경사 (lean, tilt). (various references)

Manx		cleaynagh (addict, attractive, circumventory, coaxing, deviationist, inclinable, pervert, slopewise, tempter, witching). (various references)

Pig Latin		incliningay

Portuguese		teste de estabilidade (inclination test, inclining experiment, inclining test, stability test). (various references)

Scottish		claon (go aside, oblique, partial, squint). (various references)

Spanish		inclinación (angle of inclination, bent, bow, careenage, desire, dip, droop, gradient, heel, heeling, inclination, incline, item, leaning, liking, list, mind, nod, nutation, penchant, pitch, plunge, propensity, rake, skew, slant, slanting, slope, sloping, strike, taper, tilt, tilting, want). (various references)

Turkish		eğme (bending, contortion, curving, tip). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "inclining": inclinings. (additional references)
	Words ending with "inclining": disinclining. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Inclining" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Inchinnan, inclinen. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-g-i-i-i-l-n-n-n"
	-3 letters: inning, lignin, lining.
	-4 letters: cling, icing, linin.
	-5 letters: ling, linn.
	Words containing the letters "c-g-i-i-i-l-n-n-n"
	+1 letter: inclinings.
	+3 letters: disinclining.
	+4 letters: cannibalising, cannibalizing, nonlinguistic.
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