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Definition: Peeling |
PeelingAdjective1. Having the paint loose and peeling away; "a dilapidated house with peeling paint"; "peeling row houses". Noun1. Loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "peeling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Removal of bark from wood. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Method of manufacturing internal and external spur or helical gears with a gear like cutting tool in crossed axis arrangement. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: PeelingSynonyms: desquamation (n), shedding (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: debarked (food & agriculture), debarking (food & agriculture). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Try peeling off your face with this and feeding it to the dogs (Hannibal; writing credit: David Mamet) Their skin rotting and peeling! A fireball spinning in their screaming guts (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) | |
Lyrics | Now, the paint is peeling (The Dean And I; performing artist: 10CC) | |
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 | Ship's officers and crew on deck, in the James River, Virginia, 1864-65. Photographed by Matthew Brady. One man is playing the banjo in the foreground, another is holding a small white dog, while others are reading newspapers. Men seated in center appear to be peeling potatoes. Many crewmen are wearing their "flathats" in the style of berets. About a fifth of this ship's crew appear to be African-Americans. Credit: NAVY. |  | "Berth Deck, Cook's" in 1887. Photographed by E.H. Hart, 112 E. 24th St., New York. Note cooking gear, sausages in roasting rack at left, tins of beef (one from New Zealand), bread, man peeling potatoes, black sailor with bowl, coffee cups, and bearded Marine. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Osier peeling, Norfolk / P.H. Emerson. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | U.S.S. Iowa, peeling spuds. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Peeling pine logs for fence posts. Dawes County, Nebraska. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Women of a migrant family peeling potatoes near Henrietta, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mrs. Sauer peeling apples. Cavalier County, North Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The cook on a fishing boat in Charleston, South Carolina, peeling potatoes for Christmas dinner. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Arden, New York. Interracial activities at Camp Gaylord White, where children are aided by the Methodist Camp Service. Campers peeling potatoes. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Industrial Home for the Blind, Lloyd Harbor. Peeling apples in the kitchen. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Peeling paint 2" by T. Messick Commentary: "The side of a wall at UC Davis." | "Window latch" by Red Bull Commentary: "Peeling paint on a window latch." |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He stood in the sun, peeling the wrapper from a piece of gum. |
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Health | Effects on Skin and Nails You may have minor skin problems while you are having chemotherapy, such as redness, rashes, itching, peeling, dryness, acne, and increased sensitivity to the sun. Certain anticancer drugs, when given intravenously, may cause the skin all along the vein to darken, especially in people who have very dark skin. Some people use makeup to cover the area, but this can take a lot of time if several veins are affected. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Peeling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 79.44% of the time. "Peeling" is used about 180 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) | 79.44% | 143 | 26,451 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 16.67% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.22% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.67% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 180 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "peeling" 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 |
| Peeling | Last name | 170 | 50,064 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "peeling": peeling off. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "peeling": paint-peeling, potato-peeling, skin-peeling. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "peeling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lëvozhgë (cortex, follicle, glume, husk, jacket, Peel, pod, shell, shuck), lëkurë (derm, fell, hide, jacket, leather, Peel, peltry, rind, skin), cipë (aril, film, fur, husk, integument, involucre, membrane, Peel, pellicle, tegument). (various references) | |
Arabic | قشارة (shaving), تقشير (exfoliation). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | олющен (scaled, shelled), обелване (excoriation, exfoliation, paring), лющене (husking, shelling), белене (whitening). (various references) | |
Chinese | 削皮 (Unpeeled). (various references) | |
Danish | skællen (desquamation, exfoliation, scaling), exfoliation (desquamation, exfoliation, scaling), desquamering (desquamation, exfoliation, scaling), desquamation (desquamation, exfoliation, scaling), desquamatio (desquamation), deskvamation (desquamation, exfoliation, scaling), afskalning (abrasion, decortication, desquamation, dodder elimination, eliminating dodder, exfoliation, flaking, hulling, husking, pitting, popping, scaling, shelling, undermining), afbarkning (barking, debarking, decortication, disbarking, rossing). (various references) | |
Dutch | vervelling (desquamation, ecdysis, moult), schillen (peel, shell), schilfering (desquamation, exfoliation, scaling), roterend schaven (Shear-Speed, skiving), rondschaven (Shear-Speed, skiving), ontschorsen (barking, debarking, rossing, to bark, to debark, to decorticate, to disbark, to flaw, to flay, to rind, to ross, to strip), desquamatio (desquamation, exfoliation, scaling), desquamatie (desquamation), defurfuratio (desquamation, exfoliation, scaling), afschilfering (desquamation, exfoliation, scaling). (various references) | |
Farsi | پوست انداختن (Peel, Shed, Slouch), پوست (Cortex, Cuticle, Hide, Hull, Husk, Membrane, Peel, Rind, Shale, Shell, Skin, Slough), پارچه لباسی نازک , قشر (Cortex, Crust, Hull, Rind, Shell, Stratum). (various references) | |
Finnish | vierintäkuorinta (Shear-Speed, skiving), vierintäjyrsintä leikkuupyörällä (Shear-Speed, skiving), kesiminen (desquamation), hilseily (chipping, desquamation, exfoliation, flaking, scaling, the degree of corrosion is determined by weighing before and after the oxide scale has blistered off), deskvamaatio (desquamation). (various references) | |
French | desquamation. (various references) | |
German | schälend (hulling, husking, paring), Rinde (bark, cortex, crust, husk, peel, rind, shell). (various references) | |
Greek | ξεφλούδισμα (paring), φλούδι (paring), αποφλοίωση με κύλιση (Shear-Speed, skiving), αποφλοίωση (barking, coffee bean shelling-polishing, coffee bean skin removing, cornhusking, debarking, decortication, disbarking, full deterioration, hulling, husking, maize husking, parchment removing, pulping, rossing, scaling, shelling, slip skin, sloughing), αποφολίδωσις (desquamation, exfoliation, scaling), αποφολίδωση (desquamation), απολέπισις (desquamation, exfoliation, scaling), απολέπιση (scaling). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קליפה (decortication), קלוף (desquamation, paring, peeled, sloughing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hámlás (pitting, scale). (various references) | |
Italian | scortecciatura (bark removal, barking, debarking, decortication, disbarking, rossing), esfoliazione (exfoliation), desquamazione (desquamation). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 果皮 (fruit peeling), 剥脱 (coming off, peeling off). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かひ (advisability, ayes and noes, floral envelope, fruit peeling, perianth, pro and con, propriety, right and wrong, servant girl, tanka inscription), はくだつ (coming off, deprivation, divestiture, peeling off). (various references) | |
Manx | scryssagh (scowling), roostey (bare, debunk, deprive, exposure, hull, peel, rifle, rind, rob, strip, strip of a girl, stripping, unbark). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eelingpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | esfoliação (desquamation, exfoliation, scaling), descortiçamento (barking, debarking, rossing), descascamento (flaking, hulling, husking, pulping, shelling), descasca (barking, debarking, rossing), descamação de epiderme, descamação (chipping, desquamation, exfoliation, flaking, scaling), cascas. (various references) | |
Romanian | coajã (bark, cortex, crust, Hull, husk, jacket, leather, rind, scale, scurf, shell, skin). (various references) | |
Russian | чистить (clean, pumice, purge, scour), шелушение (shelling), корка (crud, crust, incrustation, rind, scab, shell), отслаивание (exfoliation). (various references) | |
Scottish | sgroill (a peeling or paring), farusg (a peeling). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | perutanje, oljuština, ljuska (hull, husk, jacket, peel, pod, rind, scale, shell, sherd, shuck, squama), ljuštenje (paring, shelling), ljušćenje (paring, shelling). (various references) | |
Spanish | peladura (paring). (various references) | |
Swedish | skal (coat, hull, husk, integument, jacket, parings, Peel, peelings, rind, shell, shells, shuck, skin), fjällning (scaling). (various references) | |
Turkish | soyulmuş kabuk (barks, parings, peels), soyulma (being peeled, being robbed, denudation), deri soyucu krem, deri soyma işlemi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шкірка (pellicle, pod, rind), відлущування. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vỏ gọt ra, vỏ bóc ra. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "peeling": peelings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "peeling": speeling. (additional references) | |
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"Peeling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eeeling, eeling, peeesing, peelling, peening, peming, Penllyn, perlin, Pheolung. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "peeling" (pronounced pē"ling) |
| 5 | p ē" l i ng | appealing, repealing, unappealing. |
| 4 | -ē" l i ng | annealing, ceiling, concealing, dealing, feeling, healing, Keeling, kneeling, reeling, revealing, sealing, Seeling, squealing, stealing, unfeeling, wheeling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | appalling, ailing, ambling, angling, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, Belling, bicycling, billing, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, channeling, chilling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, compiling, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drilling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, heckling, helling, hilling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, instilling, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, killing, kindling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, Melling, middling, milling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, misspelling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, raveling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retelling, retooling, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, seedling, selling, settling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, thrilling, throttling, Tilling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, trilling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, whaling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, willing, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yearling, yelling, yodeling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-l-n-p" | |
-1 letter: peeing, penile. | |
-2 letters: genie, genip, ingle, liege. | |
-3 letters: gene, gien, glee, glen, lien, line, ling, lipe, neep, peel, peen, pein, pele, pile, pine, ping, plie. | |
-4 letters: eel, eng, gee, gel, gen, gie, gin, gip, lee, leg, lei, lie, lin, lip, nee, nil, nip, pee, peg, pen, pie, pig, pin. | |
-5 letters: el, en, in, li, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-l-n-p" | |
+1 letter: bleeping, peelings, sleeping, speeling. | |
+2 letters: beleaping, depleting, expelling, pelleting, peltering, repealing, repelling, sleepings, wheepling. | |
+3 letters: developing, empaneling, enveloping, penologies, perplexing, pigeonhole, pregenital, prelecting, preselling, repaneling, repeopling, repleading, repledging, replevying, respelling, sweepingly, telphering. | |
+4 letters: empanelling, espaliering, generalship, impregnable, lipogeneses, lipogenesis, outsleeping, overleaping, pedestaling, pelletising, pelletizing, phenologies, phylogenies, pigeonholed, pigeonholer, pigeonholes, pinwheeling, plangencies, polygenesis, polygenetic, praelecting, preblessing, precleaning, preclearing, preelecting, redeploying, reemploying, reexpelling, reexploring, repanelling, replevining, respellings, telephoning, teleporting, telescoping. | |
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