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LUGGING

Definition: LUGGING

LUGGING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Lug

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "LUGGING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1780. (references)


Commercial Usage: LUGGING

DomainTitle

Books

  • Chinese Children's Stories Vol. 65: Lugging Mountains, What's a Life Span? (reference)

  • Lugging Vegetables to Nantucket (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: LUGGING

Computer Images:
LUGGING

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Photo Album: LUGGING

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Crew members of a Marine torpedo bomber squadron lugging their own bags across the Okinawa airstrip as they arrive to start operations against the enemy] / Official U.S. Marine Corps p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Corporal William Beall..

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: LUGGING

"LUGGING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.62% of the time. "LUGGING" is used about 42 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)97.62%4153,521
Noun (proper)2.38%1339,140
                    Total100.00%42N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: LUGGING

Language Translations for "LUGGING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

zvarritje (crawl, crawling, creep, creeping, dragging, procrastination, scuff, spreading, trailing). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

"力拖 (Lugged, Tugged, Tugging). (various references)

   

German

  

zerrend (jerking, tugging). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ugginglay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: LUGGING

Derivations

Words ending with "LUGGING": chugalugging, glugging, plugging, slugging, sparkplugging, unplugging. (additional references)


Misspellings

"LUGGING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: glugging, leggingh, loging, luaging, luggen, pugging, Quiggin, ugging. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "LUGGING"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "LUGGING" (pronounced lu"ging)
5l u" g i ngplugging, slugging.
4-u" g i ngbugging, chugging, debugging, drugging, hugging, mugging, shrugging, snugging, tugging.
3-g i ngbagging, begging, binging, bogging, bootlegging, bragging, cataloging, cataloguing, clogging, demagoguing, digging, dogging, dragging, fatiguing, flagging, flogging, gigging, hogging, intriguing, jitterbugging, jogging, lagging, leapfrogging, legging, logging, nagging, pegging, plaguing, reneging, rigging, sagging, sandbagging, slogging, snagging, tagging, unflagging, wagging, zigzagging.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: LUGGING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-g-g-i-l-n-u"

-1 letter: gluing, luging.

-2 letters: lungi.

-3 letters: glug, iglu, ling, lung.

-4 letters: gig, gin, gnu, gul, gun, lin, lug, nil.

-5 letters: in, li, nu, un.

 Words containing the letters "g-g-g-i-l-n-u"
 

+1 letter: glugging, guggling, gurgling, juggling, plugging, slugging.

 

+2 letters: jugglings, smuggling, snuggling.

 

+3 letters: grudgingly, rejuggling, squiggling, struggling, unclogging, unflagging, unplugging.

 

+4 letters: bulldogging, gunslinging.

 

+5 letters: agglutinogen, begrudgingly, bulldoggings, bullyragging, chugalugging, gunslingings, unflaggingly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LUGGING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 55 47 47 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    ..-    --.    --.    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01010101 01000111 01000111 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#85 &#71 &#71 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0055 0047 0047 0049 004E 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46554141434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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