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"PARINGS" is a plural of: paring. |
Date "PARINGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1592. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | PARINGS. The chippings of money. CANT. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Economy | Savings; prevention of waste, save-all; cheese parings and candle ends; parsimony. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PARINGS |
| English words defined with "PARINGS": Spetches. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
References | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "PARINGS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PARINGS" is used about 3 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 |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "PARINGS": cheese parings and candle ends. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "PARINGS": cheese-parings, nail-parings. | |
| 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 |
food parings wine | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PARINGS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | afval (apostasy, apostatize, clippings, cuttings, debris, defection, desert, drop, drop out, fall, fall away, lose, lose flesh, lose in weight, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, rubble, secede, waste, windfall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قلافة (peel), قلامات, قشارات. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | обрезки, обелки (peelings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | slupky (peelings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | afskaarne cigarstykker (cigar parings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vuil (clippings, cuttings, debris, dirt, dirty, filth, filthy, foul, nasty, refuse, rubbish, rubble, soiled, unclean, waste, windfall), rommel (chaos, clippings, confusion, cuttings, debris, disorder, garbage, leavings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, rubble, tangle, waste, windfall), afval (apostasy, clippings, cuttings, debris, defection, garbage, leavings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, rubble, waste, windfall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | defalaĵo (clippings, cuttings, refuse, rubbish, waste, windfall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pelures, rognures, épluchures. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | ôffal (apostasy, apostate, clippings, cuttings, defection, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, waste, windfall), ôfeart (clippings, cuttings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, waste, windfall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schalen (bowls, peelings, scrapings, shells). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | περικόμματα πούρων (cigar parings), αποκόμματα πούρων (cigar parings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lehámozott rész (paring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ritagli di sigari (cigar parings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aringspay aparas (clipping, cutting, kindling, scobs). (various references) talaş (shavings), resturi (draff, garbage, Grout, jetsam, leavings, litter, odd-come-shorts, odds and ends, offal, picking, refuse, remain, remains, remnants, rubbish, scrap, scraps, tailings, wreck), coji (bark, disbark, excoriate, exfoliate, husk, pill, rind, skin, strip). (various references) брак (clippings, cuttings, marriage, match, matrimony, refuse, rubbish, spoilage, waste, waster, wastrel, wedlock, windfall). (various references) strugotine (filings, sawdust, scobs, shavings). (various references) detrito (clippings, cuttings, debris, detritus, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, rubble, waste, windfall), desechos (clippings, cuttings, debris, refuse, rejectamenta, remainder, rest, rubbish, rubble, waste, windfall). (various references) skal (coat, hull, husk, integument, jacket, peel, peeling, peelings, rind, shell, shells, shuck, skin). (various references) soyulmuş kabuk (barks, peeling, peels). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "PARINGS": cheeseparings. (additional references) | |
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"PARINGS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Harings, Pacinos, pagings, paigns, pariage, parians, Parigi, parin, paritns, parrin, parring, perkings, pirins, purrings, rarings, sparings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: parsing, rasping, sparing. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: grains, paring, prangs, raping, rasing, sprain, sprang, spring. | |
-2 letters: airns, aping, gains, garni, girns, gnars, grain, grans, grasp, grins, grips, naris, nipas, pains, pairs, pangs, paris, pians, pinas, pings, pirns, prang, prigs, ragis, rains, ranis, rings, sarin, spang, sprag, sprig. | |
-3 letters: agin, ains, airn, airs, anis, gain, gaps, gars, gasp, gins, gips, girn. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: aspiring, carpings, graplins, grasping, harpings, pairings, pargings, parkings, partings, phrasing, pingrass, praising, scarping, scraping, sharping, sparging, sparking, sparling, sparring, spearing, spraying, springal. | |
+2 letters: agrypnias, apprising, aspersing, escarping, grapiness, graplines, handgrips, pagurians, parawings, pastoring, pasturing, phrasings, preassign, presaging, raspingly, relapsing, repassing, repasting, reshaping, respacing, respading, scarphing, scrapings, scrapping, spanglier, sparingly, sparkling, sparlings, spiraling, sporangia, spraining, sprawling, spreading, springald, springals, strapping, traipsing, trapesing, trappings, unsparing, upraising, upsoaring, upstaring, vaporings, wrappings. | |
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