Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definitions: Paling |
PalingAdjective1. Losing color; "the paling photographs". Noun1. A fence made of upright pickets. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "paling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references) |
Synonyms: PalingSynonyms: fading (adj), picket fence (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Defense | Safeguard; (safety); balistraria; bunker, screen; (shelter); camouflage; (concealment); fortification; munition, muniment; trench, foxhole; bulwark, fosse, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment; kila; dike, dyke; parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment; earth work, field-work; fence, wall dead wall, contravallation; paling; (inclosure); palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar; barrier, barricade; boom; portcullis, chevaux de frise; abatis, abattis, abbatis; vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp; escarp, counter-scarp; glacis, casemate; vallation, vanfos. |
Inclosure | Wall, hedge, hedge row; espalier; fence; (defense); pale, paling, balustrade, rail, railing, quickset hedge, park paling, circumvallation, enceinte, ring fence. |
Prison | Bolt, deadbolt, bar, lock, police lock, combination lock, padlock, rail, wall, stone wall; paling, palisade; fence, picket fence, barbed wire fence, Cyclone fence, stockade fence, chain-link fence; barrier, barricade. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Paling |
| English words defined with "paling": fading ♦ Paled, Paling board. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Paling" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (eel), Dutch (eel), Flemish (eel), Indonesian (the most). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The stars were paling in the east. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Paling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 62.50% of the time. "Paling" is used about 24 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) | 62.5% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (proper) | 20.83% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.5% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "paling" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Paling | Last name | 170 | 42,581 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "paling": paling board ♦ park paling. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
paling | 22 |
paling roken | 7 |
paling vissen | 4 |
john paling | 4 |
comel lagu lirik paling | 4 |
comel paling | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "paling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pahi, rrethojë (girdle, hurdle, pale, palisade, pen), gardh dërrasash (palisade), dërrasë gardhi (pale). (various references) | |
Arabic | وتد السياج, سياج (corral, dike, enclosure, fence, fencing, hedgerow, rail, weir), سور اوتاد. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ограда от колове (picket fence), заграждане с колове. (various references) | |
Chinese | 变苍白 (Paled, pales). (various references) | |
Czech | tyèkový plot, ohrada (barrier, enclosure, fence, hoarding, pen, wall), kolový plot. (various references) | |
Danish | hegn (fence, fencing, hedge, hurdle, mesh, paling fence, picket fence, wattle, wire netting). (various references) | |
Dutch | omheining (fence, fencing, hurdle, paling fence, picket fence, wattle), afrastering (fence, fencing, grate, grid, grill, hurdle, paling fence, picket fence, wattle). (various references) | |
Finnish | aita (estejuoksu, fence, hedge, hoarding, hurdle, I was prevented from appearing, railing). (various references) | |
French | pieu (pale), palissade (pale, palisade), pâlis, clôture (paling fence). (various references) | |
German | palisadenzaun (palisade, picket fence, stockade), zaunpfahl (fence post, fence stake, fencing post, picket, pigtail post, pole, post, stake), Zaun (barrier, fence, fencing, hurdle, paling fence, palisade, picket fence, railing, wattle), umschließend, staketenzaun (picket fence), staket (fence, picket fence, stake), lattenzaun (stockade), gitterzaun (fencing, lattice fence). (various references) | |
Greek | περίφραξη (enclosure, fence, fencing, game fence, hurdle, paling fence, picket fence, wattle), πασσαλόφραγμα, φράκτης (fence, fold, hedge, sheep hurdle). (various references) | |
Hebrew | '"ר ית"ות (palisade), '"ר כלו סאות (stockade). (various references) | |
Hungarian | palánk (backboard, fence, pale, palisade, plank, planking), kerítés (bawd, enclosure, fence, pale, palisade, railing). (various references) | |
Italian | palizzata (fence, palings, palisade, stockade, tying, tying-up), siepe (fence, fencing, hedge, hedgerow), recinzione (enclosure, fence, fence of an excavation, fencing, hurdle, inclosure, paling fence, perimeter, picket fence, thatching, wattle), recinto (barnyard, canyon, corral, enclosure, fank, fence, fencing, game fencing, game preserve, holding paddock, hurdle, inclosure, open yard, outdoor run, paddock, pale, paling fence, pen, picket fence, Pinfold, playpen, pound, precinct, run, walled vineyard, wattle, yard). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 柵 (fence), 囲い (enclosure, storage). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さく (a harvest, a work, cord, crossout, curtail, fence, last, pare, plan, plane, policy, reduce, rope, scrape off, sharpen, shave, to alienate, to avoid, to bloom, to cede, to cleave, to cut up, to divide, to separate, to sever, to spare, to split, to tear, whittle, yesterday), か"い (enclosure, storage). (various references) | |
Korean | 창백해짐. (various references) | |
Manx | radling yiarn (iron paling). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alingpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | palimpsesto, estacada (barricade, barrier, corral, fence, fish corral, fish weir, fixed net, groyne, pale, palisade, railing, set net, stockade, tilt-yard, weir). (various references) | |
Romanian | palisadã (palisade, stockade), gard de pari. (various references) | |
Russian | частокол (pale, palisade, picket fence, stockade), палисад (palisade, zariba). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kolje. (various references) | |
Spanish | seto muerto (fence), seto (fence, hedge), estacada (dike, dyke, fence, fencing, jab, lurch, palisade, prick, staging, stockade), estaca (cudgel, cutting, fence post, fence stake, hint, pale, peg, picket, pile, pole, post, spur, stake, stick, truncheon), cercado (enclosed areas, enclosure, enclosures, fence, fenced, fencing, holding paddock, inclosure, pale, ring, walled vineyard), cerca (aboard, about, around, by, close, fence, fencing, hurdle, near, nearby, nigh, paling fence, picket fence, short, wattle). (various references) | |
Swedish | staket (enclosure, fence, railing), plank (board, boarding, hoarding, plank, planking). (various references) | |
Turkish | parmaklık (balustrade, banisters, bar, boarding, fence, fencing, grating, grid, grill, grille, guardrail, hurdle, palisade, rack, rail, railing, trellis), çit (barrier, enclosure, fence, fencing, hedge, hurdle, inclosure, palisade, ring fence). (various references) | |
Ukranian | кіл (pale, stake), паркан (palisade), палісад (palisade). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | những cọc r o, h ng r o cọc. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "paling": palingeneses, palingenesis, palingenetic, palings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "paling": empaling, impaling. (additional references) | |
| |
"Paling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apaling, Apling, Jalingo, paaline, Pagliano, pahlen, paign, pailing, paing, paking, palan, palang, Palanji, Palaung, Palene, palin, palina, Palinn, Pallig, pallina, pallon, Palloni, palon, Palona, palping, palying, Paolino, Paylins, Pildinny, piline, Pilning, plaig, Planig, plauing, prailing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-l-n-p" | |
-1 letter: algin, align, aping, lapin, liang, ligan, linga, plain. | |
-2 letters: agin, anil, gain, glia, lain, lang, ling, lipa, nail, nipa, pail, pain, pang, pial, pian, pina, ping, plan. | |
-3 letters: ail, ain, alp, ani, gal, gan, gap, gin, gip, lag, lap, lin, lip, nag, nap, nil, nip, pal, pan, pia, pig, pin. | |
-4 letters: ag, ai, al, an, in, la, li, na, pa, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-l-n-p" | |
+1 letter: graplin, lamping, lapping, lapsing, lapwing, leaping, paginal, palings, palling, palming, parling, pealing, placing, planing, plating, playing, sapling. | |
+2 letters: applying, clamping, clapping, clasping, dappling, elapsing, empaling, flapping, galoping, gapingly, grapline, graplins, impaling, japingly, lapwings, paddling, palsying, paneling, pangolin, paroling, pearling, pedaling, pignolia, plaguing, plaining, plaiting, planking, planning, planting, plashing, platings, platting, pleading, pleasing, pleating, polkaing, psalming, ralphing, sampling, saplings, scalping, slapping, spalling, sparling, splaying, springal, stapling. | |
+3 letters: appalling, appealing, beleaping, capsuling, carpingly, cupolaing, deplaning, emplacing, emplaning, enplaning, exampling, galloping, graplines, grappling, lagniappe, lappering, larruping, napalming, paddlings, palpating, paltering, panelings, panelling, pangolins, parceling, pargyline, parlaying, parleying, pedalling, pellagrin, pignolias, pillaging, pillaring, placating, plainsong, plaitings, plankings, plannings, plantings, plaything, pleaching, pleadings, poleaxing, pratingly, prattling, pulsating, rappeling, raspingly, relapsing, repealing, replacing, replating, replaying, salpinges, samplings, spackling, spanglier, spangling, sparingly, sparkling, sparlings, spiraling, splashing, splatting, sprawling, springald, springals, trampling, upleaping, uploading, upscaling, walloping. | |
+4 letters: amplifying, anaglyphic, antiplague, appareling, applauding, asphalting, beclasping, calipering, caprioling, carpooling, collapsing, copulating, depilating, diplomaing, displacing, displaying, empaneling, enclasping, escaloping, explaining, explanting, galumphing, grapplings, graspingly, impaneling, impearling, implanting, impleading, impugnable, inclasping, lagniappes, lampooning, lapidating, lightplane, lipreading, misplacing, misplaying, nonplaying, opalescing, oppilating, outleaping, outplaying, padlocking, palavering, palisading, palliating, panellings, paralysing, paralyzing, parboiling, parcelling, pargylines, patrolling, peculating, pellagrins, penalising, penalizing, pinnacling, placarding, plainsongs, planishing, plastering, plateauing, platooning, playacting, playmaking, playthings, pleadingly, pleasingly, pleasuring, poignantly, polarising, polarizing, pollarding, populating, pregenital, preplacing, prevailing, prolapsing, rappelling, reapplying, reclasping, repaneling, replanning, replanting, repleading, resampling, scalloping, spanceling, spangliest, spiralling, spoliating, sporangial, spraddling, sprattling, springalds, springtail, sulphating, unclamping, unclasping, unplaiting, unpleasing, vanpooling, volplaning. | |
+5 letters: acceptingly, alphabeting, angioplasty, antiplagues, apologising, apologizing, appallingly, apparelling, appealingly, appliqueing, approvingly, aquaplaning, blaspheming, callipering, callipygian, capsulizing, carpogonial, catapulting, complaining, diphthongal, displanting, displeasing, downplaying, duplicating, empanelling, encapsuling, escalloping, espaliering, exculpating, explicating, gallinipper, generalship, genotypical, haptoglobin, impanelling, implicating, impregnable, impregnably, inculpating, landscaping, lapidifying, lightplanes, lipreadings, misapplying, misplanning, misplanting, mispleading, outplanning, overlapping, overleaping, overplaying, painkilling, palletising, palletizing, palpitating, palynologic, panbroiling, panegyrical, panhandling, paralleling, parasailing, parbuckling, pavilioning, pedestaling, pelargonium, penological, percolating, placatingly, plaistering, plangencies, plantigrade, plasminogen, plasterings, platemaking, platinizing, playactings, playmakings, playwriting, pluralizing, pollinating, postlanding, postulating, potlatching, praelecting, prattlingly, preachingly, precleaning, preclearing, preplanning, preplanting, proclaiming, pullulating, quadrupling, repanelling, replicating, sailplaning, salpingitis, spancelling, speculating, splattering, sporulating, springtails, spurgalling, stipulating, subsampling, supplanting, unappealing, unsparingly, vanpoolings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 6C 69 6E 67 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| 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)01010000 01100001 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a l i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 006C 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)506778758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
