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OUTFLANKING

Date "OUTFLANKING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)


Specialty Definition: OUTFLANKING

DomainDefinition

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.

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Usage Frequency: OUTFLANKING

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)50%5157,705
Lexical Verb (-ing form)30%3202,518
Noun (proper)10%1339,140
Noun (singular)10%1339,140
                    Total100.00%10N/A

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

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Expressions: OUTFLANKING

Expressions using "OUTFLANKING": outflanking maneuver outflanking movement. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: OUTFLANKING

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

   

Portuguese

  

desbordamento. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

modificación del lecho (channel displacement). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

översvämning (debacle, deluge, flood, flooding, freshet, inundation, overflow). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: OUTFLANKING

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.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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