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Date "OUTFLANKING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | The breaking through of the banks of a stream thus forming a new channel or cut-off. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Going, extending, or being beyond the flank or flanks of. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "OUTFLANKING" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "OUTFLANKING" is used about 10 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 50% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 30% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "OUTFLANKING": outflanking maneuver ♦ outflanking movement. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "OUTFLANKING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | gaaen udenom. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tulviminen (flood, flooding, swell), paisuminen yli äyräiden. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | débordement (outbreak), changement de lit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | umgehung (avoidance, by passing, bypass, bypassing, circumvention, evasion, getting round, going round, ring road), Bachausbruch (channel displacement), Austreten eines Flusses, Ausbruch (break out, breakaway, eruption, escape, explosion, gush, gust, jailbreak, onset, outbreak, outburst, raptures, Sally). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εκχείλισις. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | א'וף (flank attack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | átkaroló mûvelet (outflanking maneuver), átkaroló hadmozdulat (outflanking maneuver, turning movement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tracimazione (overfall, overflow, overtopping, spill, spillover), spostamento del letto (channel displacement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | outflankingay desbordamento. (various references) modificación del lecho (channel displacement). (various references) översvämning (debacle, deluge, flood, flooding, freshet, inundation, overflow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-g-i-k-l-n-n-o-t-u" | |
-2 letters: flaunting. | |
-3 letters: faulting, flanking, floating, flouting, flunking, fountain, gunflint, knouting, lunation, nonguilt, outflank. | |
-4 letters: ankling, antiflu, antigun, antilog, antlion, atoning, autoing, fatling, flaking, flokati, fluking, fluting, foaling, fontina, fouling, funking, gainful, loafing, loaning, lofting, louting, lunting, outgain, outlain, talking, tankful, tanking. | |
-5 letters: agouti, annuli, anoint, anting, faking, fanion, fating, flagon, flaunt, fontal, fugato, fungal. | |
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