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Definitions: Lashing |
LashingAdjective1. Violently urging on by whipping or flogging; "looked at the lashing riders". Noun1. Beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment. 2. Rope that is used for fastening something to something else; "the boats were held together by lashings". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lashing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Engineering & Technology | Action of binding with a line. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | The fastening or securing of a load to its carrier by use of ropes, cables or other means to prevent shifting during transport. Also used(as a noun)to describe the material employed to secure a load. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Any of a number of planks nailed inside of several frames or sets in a shaft to keep them in place. Also called listing b. A binding, generally of light line around the end of a rope. c. In South Africa, loading broken rock or ore with shovels d. Shoveling rock downstope to ore passes--work performed by a lasher. A "lasher-on" connects tubs or trucks to a rope haulage. Also calledmucking. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Synonyms: LashingSynonyms: flagellation (n), flogging (n), tanning (n), whipping (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Lashing |
| English words defined with "lashing": frap ♦ Gammoning, Gammoning fashion ♦ Lashing out ♦ Mousing ♦ Rack lashing, Rack stick ♦ seizing ♦ To take a reef in ♦ unlash. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lashing": hook forward method ♦ lashing chain ♦ undertub system. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "lashing": Overlash. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I've always thought a good lashing with a buggy whip would benefit you immensely! (Gone with the Wind; writing credit: Margaret Mitchell; Sidney Howard) | |
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Human Rights | United Arab Emirates | The individual administering the lashing swings the whip using the forearm only. (references) |
Worker Rights | United Arab Emirates | In addition the authorities restrict the number of visas issued to single women between the ages of 30 and 40. However, press reports indicated that airlines and tourism companies continue to obtain visit visas for single women between the ages of 30 and 40. The punishment for prostitution is lashing, followed by imprisonment. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Lashing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 87.74% of the time. "Lashing" is used about 106 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) | 87.74% | 93 | 34,067 |
| Noun (singular) | 6.6% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.66% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 106 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "lashing": Lashing out ♦ lashing point ♦ rack lashing. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "lashing": lashing-out. | |
Ending with "lashing": tongue-lashing. | |
| 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 |
lashing | 31 |
lashing wire | 8 |
lashing square | 7 |
lashing rope | 6 |
lashing equipment | 4 |
knots lashing | 3 |
lashing tongue | 3 |
lashing strap | 3 |
lashing project | 2 |
lashing bar | 2 |
lashing scout | 2 |
lashing telecom | 2 |
lashing pole | 2 |
lashing shear | 2 |
lashing securing | 2 |
chain lashing | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lashing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | litar (cable, halyard, hanging, lasher, line, rope, tack, tether), sharje (abuse, animadversion, bad language, chastisement, curse, damn, dispraise, dressing down, embroilment, invective, mudslinging, oath, obscenities, quarrel, scolding, swear word, swearing, talking to, vituperation, wigging), rrahje me kamzhik (flagellation, flogging, whip, whipping), fshikullim (flagellation, flogging, slash, whip, whipping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سوط (cat, horsewhip, knout, lash, quirt, scourge, switch, whip), جلد (belabour, belt, birch, curry, cut, drub, drubbing, endurance, flagellation, flog, flogging, fortitude, gladiatorial, hide, integument, lacing, lambaste, lash, leather, licking, pasting, patience, scourge, self control, skin, slash, slashing, stamina, sting, sufferance, switch, tan, thrash, thump, toleration, trounce, whip, whipping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | върви, въжета (cordage, roping), бой (action, battle, doing, drubbing, fight, hiding, leathering, licking, lump, punishment, rough and tumble, rough up, thrashing, towelling, trimming, turnup, tussle, walloping, warming, whaling), бензел, биене (beating, horsing, pelt, pulsation, thrill, throb, tick, tick-tack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 抨击 (Lashed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | bièování (flagellation, lash, whipping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | surringstov, surring (tie down), surretov. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | lijn (cast, ganging, gangion, line, main line, rope, rule, scan, snell, snood, trace, transmission line), vastsjorren (to belay, to fasten, to frap, to lash, to seize, to tie up), touwwerk van lage kwaliteit, sjortouw (tether, tether cable), seizing. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ligature, lashing, saisine, saisinage, réprimande (lambency, lash), flagellation, corde (lash), cordage de qualité inférieure, arrimage, amarre (lashes), aiguillette. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Tauwerk (cordage, lashings, rigging, ropes), peitschend (flogging, scourging, whipping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κάθαμμα, έχμασις, σχοινιά κατώτερης ποιότητας, μπότσα, μαστίγωμα (castigation, flagellation, flogging, strapping, thrashing, whipping), πρόσδεση με σχοινί, πρόσδεση (affixture, binding, fastening, halter, stowing, tether, tie, tying, tying-up), πρυμνοδέτηση (mooring), λουρί (belt, collar, lead, leash, thong), δέσιμο (banding, bend, binding, dressing, fastening, hooping, lacing, tying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מלקות (flogging, lash, whipping), מצליף (flagellant, lasher), ל"צליף (flail, flog, horsewhip, lash, slash, swat, swish, switch, tan, whip), שוט (punishment, scourge, whip), עפעף (eyelid, lash), "צלפ" (flagellation, flick, lash, slash, stroke, whipping), ריס (eyelash), צליפ" (lash, sniping, whipping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lekötözés (tie down), rögzítés (anchorage, crabbing, fastening, fixation, fixing, locking, setting, stabilization), korbácsoló (flogger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | legatura (banding, bend, binding, bookbinding, cable binding, cable clench, cable stopper, constriction, cover, deligation, entanglement, fastening, hooping, interlocking, lacing, ligation, ligature, quaint character, slur, socket, tying), sferzata (whipping), rizzatura, rizza, passarino, fustigazione (flogging, fustigation, hiding), frustatura, frustata (lash), cordame di qualita'inferiore, bozza (ashlar, bump, draft, proof, stopper), barbetta (barb, chin beard, feather, painter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ashinglay amarração (binding, bracing, mooring, rigging, setting). (various references) legãturã (band, bandage, bearing, bind, binder, binding, bond, brace, bracer, bunch, bundle, communion, concern, conjunction, connection, contact, cord, harmony, headkerchief, hoist, junction, knot, league, liaison, ligament, link, link up, marriage, nexus, pack, pertinence, rapport, reference, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy, respect, sheaf, tie, touch, truss, unity), socar, sarcastic (acrid, biting, caustic, caustically, cynical, mordacious, sarcastic, sarcastically, sardonic, satiric, severe, sharp, sneering, tart, taunting), parâmã (cable, hawser, line, rope, tow-line rope), mulţime (accumulation, army, array, body, boodle, cloud, cluster, concourse, crowd, dozen, drove, fifty, flock, forest, generality, heap, herd, hive, host, huddle, manifold, mass, mob, multitude, muster, number, Peck, pile, plenty, populace, press, quantity, rabble, ream, shoal, sight, squash, stack, swarm, throng), cantitate mare (accumulation, mort, quantity), biciuitor (biting, harsh, severe), biciuire (flogging, lacing, whipping), aspru (abrupt, abruptly, acid, acrimonious, biting, brisk, callous, clumsy, coarse, crisp, dour, drastic, earthy, edgy, exacting, firm, grating, gruelling, gruff, hard, harsh, hoarse, homespun, husky, ill, inclement, iron, iron-fisted, keen, nippy, obdurate, punitive, rasping, rigid, rigidly, rigorous, robust, rough, rugged, scabrous, severe, severely, shaggy, shy, smart, snappish, stern, stiff, Strait, strict, strong, stubborn, tough, unkind, violent, wiry). (various references) порка (beating, corporal punishment, flagellation, flogging, hiding, horsing, leathering, licking, oil of birch, the lash, thrashing, toco, towelling, unstitching, whopping). (various references) kratak konopac za vezivanje, bičevanje (scouring, whipping), šibanje (flogging, whipping). (various references) trinca (triplet), atadura (attachment, binding, fastener, fastening, halter, lacing, tether, tie, tying). (various references) rep (bailing line, bailing rope, cord, rope, sand line, strand, string), prygel (canine, flog, flogging), piskning (aerate the sand, break up the sand, cut sand, whipping), piskande (pelt), bändsel (seizing, setting). (various references) การเฆี่ยน (lash, thrash), การผูกหรือมั""้วยเชือก. (various references) palamar (cable, hawser, moorings, moors, warp), kırbaçlama (flagellation, flogging, lash, whipping), halat (hawser, lanyard, lap, line, rope), fırça atma (ribbing, vituperation), bağlama (affiliation, attribution, connecting, coupling, fastening, fixture, folk instrument with three double strings, immobilization, lacing), azar (earful, going-over, jaw, lecture, objurgation, rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reproof, reproval, rocket, scolding, slating, talking to, telling off, tongue-lashing, trimming). (various references) шмагання (castigation, chastisement, flogging, leathering, smacking, tanning, thrashing, threshing, towelling, warming, whipping), вірьовка (bast, lariat, rope, string), докори. (various references) sự xỉ vả (lash), sự quất bằng roi sự mắng nhiếc, sự chỉ trích (animadversion, censure, damning, dispraise, lash), sự đánh đập (buffeting, dressing, hiding, thrashing, whacking, whipping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | verber. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lashing": lashings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "lashing": backlashing, clashing, flashing, plashing, slashing, splashing, unlashing. (additional references) | |
Words containing "lashing": flashings, slashingly, slashings. (additional references) | |
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"Lashing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alsing, Iliushin, Lashan, Laskin, lasking, Leshana, Lezhina, Lushun, Luzhin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lashing" (pronounced la"shing) |
| 5 | l a" sh i ng | clashing, flashing, slashing, splashing. |
| 4 | -a" sh i ng | bashing, cashing, crashing, dashing, gnashing, hashing, rehashing, smashing, stashing, thrashing, trashing. |
| 3 | -sh i ng | abolishing, accomplishing, admonishing, ambushing, anguishing, astonishing, banishing, blushing, brainwashing, brandishing, brushing, crushing, demolishing, diminishing, dishing, distinguishing, embellishing, establishing, extinguishing, finishing, fishing, flourishing, flushing, furbishing, furnishing, gushing, languishing, lavishing, meshing, nourishing, onrushing, overfishing, photofinishing, polishing, publishing, punishing, pushing, quashing, ravishing, reestablishing, refinishing, refreshing, refurbishing, relinquishing, relishing, replenishing, rushing, skirmishing, sloshing, squashing, tarnishing, unleashing, vanishing, washing, wishing. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-h-i-l-n-s" | |
-1 letter: algins, aligns, ashing, haling, laighs, lasing, liangs, ligans, lingas, signal. | |
-2 letters: algin, align, anils, gains, glans, glias, gnash, hails, hangs, laigh, liang, ligan, linga, lings, nails, nighs, sangh, slain, slang, sling, snail. | |
-3 letters: agin, ails, ains, anil, anis, gain, gals, gash, ghis, gins, glia, hags, hail, hang, hila, hins, hisn, lags, lain, lang, lash, ling, lins, nags, nail, nigh, nils, sail, sain, sang, shag, shin, sial, sigh, sign, sing, sinh, slag, snag. | |
-4 letters: ail, ain, ais, als, ani, ash, gal, gan, gas, ghi, gin, hag, has, hin, his, ins, lag, las, lin, lis, nag, nah, nil, sag, sal, sha, sin. | |
-5 letters: ag, ah, ai, al, an, as, ha, hi, in, is, la, li, na, sh, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-h-i-l-n-s" | |
+1 letter: clashing, flashing, hassling, healings, languish, lashings, lathings, leashing, nilghais, nilghaus, nylghais, plashing, ringhals, shauling, shawling, shealing, shoaling, slashing, whalings. | |
+2 letters: angelfish, ashlaring, ashlering, athelings, dashingly, fanlights, flashings, handlings, hangnails, hanseling, highlands, hooligans, laughings, lavishing, loathings, longhairs, narghiles, nargilehs, shackling, shambling, shaveling, shealings, shearling, slashings, splashing, unlashing. | |
+3 letters: abolishing, anglerfish, asphalting, crashingly, earthlings, handseling, hanselling, hatchlings, languished, languisher, languishes, marshaling, nightfalls, planishing, playthings, ringhalses, scathingly, shallowing, shavelings, shearlings, slashingly, slathering, smashingly, stringhalt, sulphating, unleashing. | |
+4 letters: alightments, angelfishes, anthologies, anthologist, backlashing, blandishing, blaspheming, changelings, fishtailing, generalship, ghastliness, hairstyling, handselling, highlanders, hooliganism, languishers, languishing, latchstring, lightplanes, marshalling, mishandling, ravishingly, searchingly, shellacking, stablishing, stringhalts, theologians, unshackling, vanishingly, wholesaling. | |
+5 letters: almightiness, anglerfishes, anthologists, anthologizes, candlelights, cliffhangers, daylightings, establishing, farthingales, generalships, glutathiones, hairstylings, handholdings, handrailings, haptoglobins, hesitatingly, hooliganisms, landholdings, languishment, latchstrings, nightingales, nightwalkers, roadholdings, shatteringly, shellackings, slaughtering, slaveholding, smallholding, stringhalted. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 73 68 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- ... .... .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01110011 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a s h i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0073 0068 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46678574758073 |
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