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Definition: Parasailing |
ParasailingNoun1. Gliding in a parasail. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Having fun at Lauderdale by the Sea - sunbathing, sailing, and parasailing.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
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| "Parasailing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Parasailing" is used about 2 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) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
parasailing | 397 |
beach myrtle parasailing | 21 |
florida parasailing | 12 |
parasailing maui | 10 |
parasailing equipment | 10 |
parasailing in hawaii | 10 |
hawaii parasailing | 9 |
parasailing in florida | 8 |
beach in myrtle parasailing | 8 |
cancun parasailing | 7 |
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| Language | Translations for "parasailing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | arasailingpay.(various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "parasailing": parasailings. (additional references) | |
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"Parasailing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: parasitizing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-g-i-i-l-n-p-r-s" | |
-2 letters: apiarians, planarias, spiraling. | |
-3 letters: analgias, angarias, apiarian, aspiring, graplins, pairings, parasang, planaria, praising, railings, sparling, springal. | |
-4 letters: agnails, airings, analgia, angaria, aplasia, argalas, argalis, arising, aspirin, graplin, lairing, lapsing, lasagna, lisping, nilgais, paginal, pairing, paisana, palings, parangs, parians, parings, parling, parsing, pilings, piranas, prising, raglans, railing, raising, rapinis, rasping, sailing, salpian, sangria, sapling, sliping, sparing, spiling, spiring. | |
-5 letters: aaliis, agapai, agnail, agrias, ailing, airing, algins, aligns, argala, argali, argals, argils, glairs, gnarls, graals, grails, grains, isling, lagans, lanais, lapins, lasing, lianas, liangs, ligans, lingas, lipins, nairas, narial, nasial, nilgai, pagans, paisan, palais, paling, pangas, parang, parian, paring, piling, pirana, plains, planar, prangs, raglan, raisin, raping, rapini, rasing, riling, riping, rising, salina, sangar, signal, siping, siring, spinal, spiral, sprain, sprang, spring. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-g-i-i-l-n-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: parasailings. | |
| 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 72 61 73 61 69 6C 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- .-. .- ... .- .. .-.. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110010 01100001 01110011 01100001 01101001 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a r a s a i l i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0072 0061 0073 0061 0069 006C 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5067846785677578758073 |
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