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Papering

Definition: Papering

Papering

Noun

1. The application of wallpaper.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "papering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1866. (references)

Synonym: Papering

Synonym: paperhanging (n). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: sand-papering block (european union).

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Commercial Usage: Papering

DomainTitle

Books

  • Wallcoverings: Paneling, Painting & Papering (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Papering

"Papering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Papering" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)100%2471,196

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

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Expression: Papering

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "papering": emery-papering.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Papering

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

papering toilet

16

wall papering

7

papering

4

papering toliet

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Papering

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

Albanian

  

veshje (apparel, array, article of clothing, ascription, attire, attribution, clothes, clothing, cloudiness, dress, dressing, fig, furnishings, garb, garment, garments, gear, guise, habiliments, habit, incrustation, outfit, overlay, raggery, raiment, sheath, strip, suit, tog, toggery, togs, vesture, wear). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

裱糊 (papered). (various references)

   

German

  

in Papier einwickelnd. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

도배. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aperingpay.(various references)

   

Spanish

  

empapelado. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Papering

Derivations

Words ending with "papering": glasspapering, newspapering, repapering, sandpapering, wallpapering. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Papering" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Paderanga, paering, papain, peperino, poperian, Poperon. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Papering"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "papering" (pronounced pā"pering)
5-ā" p er i ngtapering.
4-p er i ngdiapering, hampering, pampering, peppering, prospering, scampering, tampering, tempering, wallpapering, whimpering, whispering, zippering.
3-er i ngadministering, altering, anchoring, angering, answering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, belaboring, beleaguering, bettering, bewildering, bickering, blistering, blundering, blustering, bolstering, bordering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clamoring, clobbering, clustering, cluttering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, countering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doctoring, doddering, embroidering, empowering, encountering, endangering, endeavoring, entering, factoring, faltering, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, festering, figuring, filibustering, filtering, fingering, flattering, flavoring, flickering, floundering, flowering, fluttering, fostering, foundering, fracturing, frittering, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glittering, glowering, grandfathering, guttering, hammering, hankering, harboring, hectoring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, lettering, levering, lingering, littering, loitering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, mastering, maundering, meandering, measuring, mentoring, metering, minoring, mirroring, mitering, mongering, monitoring, mothering, motoring, murdering, murmuring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neighboring, neutering, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pandering, partnering, perjuring, pestering, petering, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plastering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, puncturing, puttering, quivering, recapturing, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, reentering, registering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scattering, scouring, sculpturing, sequestering, severing, shattering, sheltering, shimmering, shivering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, shuttering, simmering, slaughtering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smattering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, squandering, staggering, structuring, stuttering, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, sweltering, tailoring, teetering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, tottering, towering, transpiring, triggering, tutoring, uncovering, unflattering, unwavering, ushering, uttering, venturing, wagering, wandering, warmongering, watering, wavering, weathering, withering, wondering, Wuthering.

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

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Anagrams: Papering

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-p-p-r"

-1 letter: gappier, genipap, nappier, rapping, reaping.

-2 letters: earing, gainer, gipper, grippe, napper, nappie, nipper, panier, paring, pigpen, pinger, pipage, rapine, raping, rappen, reagin, regain, regina.

-3 letters: anger, aping, arpen, gaper, garni, genip, grain, grape, gripe, nappe, pager, paper, parge, piper, prang, range, regna, reign, renig, repin, ripen.

-4 letters: ager, agin, airn, aper, earn, gaen, gain, gane, gape, gear, gien, girn, gnar, gran, grin, grip, nape, neap, near, nipa, page, pain, pair, pane, pang, pare, peag, pean, pear, pein, peri, perp, pian, pier, pina, pine, ping, pipe, pirn, prep, prig, rage, ragi, rain, rang, rani, rape, reap, rein, repp, ring, ripe.

-5 letters: age, ain, air, ane, ani, ape, are, ear, eng, era, erg, ern, gae, gan, gap, gar, gen, gie, gin, gip, ire, nae, nag, nap, nip, pan, pap, par, pea, peg, pen, pep, per, pia, pie, pig, pin, pip, rag, ran, rap, reg, rei, rep, ria, rig, rin, rip.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-p-p-r"
 

+1 letter: appearing, lappering, pampering, paupering, preparing, prepaying, pretaping, rappeling, recapping, remapping.

 

+2 letters: appareling, bewrapping, entrapping, enwrapping, prepacking, prepasting, preplacing, preshaping, rappelling, reapplying, repapering, rewrapping.

 

+3 letters: apparelling, coappearing, gallinipper, overlapping, papermaking, pauperizing, preadapting, preadopting, preplanning, preplanting, prestamping, prewrapping, reappearing, reapproving, uppercasing, wiretapping.

 

+4 letters: apperceiving, appertaining, appreciating, apprehending, apprenticing, disappearing, gallinippers, interlapping, livetrapping, newspapering, paperhanging, papermakings, perpetrating, perpetuating, preapproving, prepackaging, propagandize, reappointing, reappraising, repopulating, sandpapering, underlapping, wallpapering.

 

+5 letters: eavesdropping, expropriating, glasspapering, mousetrapping, paperhangings, phonographies, planographies, pornographies, precipitating, preprograming, prepurchasing, propagandized, propagandizer, propagandizes, sharecropping, stepparenting.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Papering


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

50 61 70 65 72 69 6E 67

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)

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

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

01010000 01100001 01110000 01100101 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#97 &#112 &#101 &#114 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0061 0070 0065 0072 0069 006E 0067

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

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

5067827184758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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