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Definition: Motoring |
MotoringNoun1. The act of driving an automobile. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "motoring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
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Mechanical Engineering | Rotating main engine by means of starter for purpose other than starting(usually gas turbine). Source: European Union. (references) |
| Rotating an engine with ignition disconnected. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Turning engine of any type by external power. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Motoring |
| Specialty definitions using "motoring": tractive effort. (references) |
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Screenplays | Happy motoring! (Transformers: Robots in Disguise; writing credit: Richard Epcar; Marc Handler) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Motoring Thru Spain (1929) | |
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 | Chevy Chase, Maryland. Sign at the Harper's tourist home, just over the district line in Maryland, lit up in the evening to attract motoring guests. Most guests are Washington workers who stay there until they find an apartment. It costs two dollars to tw. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Motoring tourists homecoming, Arcadia, Fla., Jan. 4-10, 1932. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Motoring" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 54.86% of the time. "Motoring" is used about 175 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) | 54.86% | 96 | 33,456 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 21.71% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Noun (proper) | 15.43% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.43% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (common) | 0.57% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 175 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "motoring": motoring public ♦ motoring skills. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "motoring": non-motoring. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "motoring"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sport automobilistik, punë automobilistike. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فسحة بالسيارة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | автомобилизъм, пътуване с автомобил. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 开汽车 (motored). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | automobilismus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tørne. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zonder ontsteking laten draaien (cranking), verluchten (illustrate), automobilisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | aŭtomobilismo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | moottorin pyöritys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ventilation du réacteur, ventilation du moteur, rotation vide, dégommage, automobilisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | autorydskoalle (driving-school, school of motoring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verkehrs-, Lüften (aerate, air, air out, breath of wind, give an airing, lift, lift up, raise, to air, ventilate, ventilation), Durchdrehen (race, snap, spin, to spin), auto- (auto-). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | περιστροφή χωρίς ανάφλεξη, περιστροφή του κινητήρα χωρίς ανάφλεξη (cranking), εσωτερικός καθαρισμός στροβιλοκινητήρα με περιστροφή χωρίς ανάφλεξη (cranking), εξαερισμός του στροβιλοκινητήρα (cranking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gépkocsizás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ventilazione motore (cranking), rotazione a vuoto (cranking), automobilismo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 자동차를 탐. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gleashtanys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | otoringmay motorizado (cranking), rotação sem ignição, rotação do motor para arranque (cranking), esporte automobilístico, automobilismo. (various references) automobilism. (various references) автомобильный спорт, автомобильное дело. (various references) vožnja kolima. (various references) ventilación del reactor (cranking), ventilación del motor (cranking), rodado sin encendido, funcionamiento por batería (cranking), desengomadura (cranking), desencoladura (cranking), de tránsito (traffic, transfer), de carretera (road, transport, wayside), de automóvil, automovilismo, automovilístico. (various references) motorsport, motorism, motor- (motor), bilkörning, bil- (automotive). (various references) автомобіьна справа, автомобільний спорт. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "motoring": motorings. (additional references) | |
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"Motoring" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mitoxine, Momorangi, Montroig, Moosomin, Motoji, Motoren, Motori, motorine, Mottarone, Ottorino. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "motoring" (pronounced mō"tering) |
| 4 | -t er i ng | administering, altering, bantering, bartering, battering, bettering, blistering, blustering, bolstering, catering, centering, chartering, chattering, clustering, cluttering, countering, doctoring, encountering, entering, factoring, faltering, festering, filibustering, filtering, flattering, fluttering, fostering, frittering, glittering, guttering, hectoring, lettering, littering, loitering, mastering, mentoring, metering, mitering, monitoring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neutering, pestering, petering, plastering, puttering, reentering, registering, scattering, sculpturing, sequestering, shattering, sheltering, shuttering, slaughtering, smattering, spattering, splintering, sputtering, stuttering, sweltering, teetering, tottering, tutoring, unflattering, uttering, watering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | anchoring, angering, answering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, belaboring, beleaguering, bewildering, bickering, blundering, bordering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, censoring, clamoring, clobbering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doddering, embroidering, empowering, endangering, endeavoring, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, figuring, fingering, flavoring, flickering, floundering, flowering, foundering, fracturing, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glowering, grandfathering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, levering, lingering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, maundering, meandering, measuring, minoring, mirroring, mongering, mothering, murdering, murmuring, neighboring, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, quivering, recapturing, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scouring, severing, shimmering, shivering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, simmering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spiering, sponsoring, squandering, staggering, structuring, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, tempering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, towering, transpiring, triggering, uncovering, unwavering, ushering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, warmongering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, wondering, Wuthering, zippering. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-m-n-o-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: monitor, mooring, mooting, rooming, rooting. | |
-2 letters: mooing, morion, motion, trigon, trogon. | |
-3 letters: giron, griot, groin, groom, ingot, intro, minor, mongo, moron, motor, nitro, nomoi, tigon, trigo. | |
-4 letters: girn, giro, girt, goon, grim, grin, grit, grot, inro, into, iron, mint, mono, moon, moor, moot, morn, mort, noir, nori, norm, omit, onto, ring, riot, room, root. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-m-n-o-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: motorings, promoting. | |
+2 letters: agronomist, comforting, comporting, ergonomist, goniometer, goniometry, monitoring, motorising, motorizing. | |
+3 letters: agronomists, ergonomists, forthcoming, gastronomic, goniometers, goniometric, homeporting, monogastric, moonlighter, motorbiking, motorcading, outhomering, outhumoring, overemoting, postforming, resmoothing, shortcoming, terminology, trimetrogon. | |
+4 letters: comfortingly, compurgation, gastronomies, gastronomist, goniometries, lognormality, moonlighters, mothproofing, motorboating, motorcycling, nonmigratory, numerologist, outpromising, primogenitor, promulgation, risorgimento, shortcomings, trigonometry, trimetrogons. | |
+5 letters: aggiornamento, agglomeration, commemorating, compurgations, conglomeratic, countermoving, criminologist, discomforting, gastronomical, gastronomists, glamorization, mastigophoran, monogrammatic, morphogenetic, motorboatings, numerologists, outperforming, overpromoting, primogenitors, promulgations, risorgimentos, spermatogonia, terminologies, thermoforming, trigonometric, unforthcoming. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 74 6F 72 69 6E 67 |
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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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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- - --- .-. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01110100 01101111 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o t o r i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 0074 006F 0072 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)4781868184758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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