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Definition: Perspiring |
PerspiringAdjective1. Being wet with perspiration; "the perspiring runners"; "his sweating face"; "sweaty clothes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "perspiring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: PerspiringSynonyms: sweating (adj), sweaty (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Perspiring |
| English words defined with "perspiring": Perspirable ♦ Sudatory, sweating, sweaty. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A stout perspiring face looked in from the other end of the car. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Perspiring" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 75.76% of the time. "Perspiring" is used about 33 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) | 75.76% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 24.24% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 33 | N/A |
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 |
perspiring | 3 |
excessive perspiring | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "perspiring"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مفرز عرقا, تعرق (sweat, sweating, transpiration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hiestynyt (sweaty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | transpirant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | schwitzend (sweating, transpiring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מיוזע (sweating, sweaty), הזעה (sudation, sweat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | izzadt (sweaty, sweltering), verítékező, izzadó (oozy, sweating, sweaty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erspiringpay потеть вспотевший. (various references) transpirado, sudoroso (sweating, sweaty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "perspiring" (pronounced perspī"ring) |
| 6 | -s p ī" r i ng | aspiring, conspiring, expiring, inspiring, uninspiring. |
| 4 | -ī" r i ng | acquiring, admiring, firing, hiring, quiring, rehiring, retiring, tiring, wiring. |
| 3 | -r i ng | adhering, adoring, airing, alluring, appearing, assuring, baring, barring, bearing, bioengineering, blaring, boring, caring, chairing, charring, cheering, childbearing, clearing, comparing, curing, daring, declaring, deploring, despairing, disappearing, domineering, during, earring, electioneering, endearing, enduring, engineering, ensuring, exploring, fearing, flaring, flooring, gearing, glaring, Goring, haring, hearing, herring, ignoring, impairing, imploring, insuring, interfering, jarring, jeering, luring, marring, maturing, ministering, mooring, nearing, obscuring, outpouring, overbearing, overhearing, overpowering, pairing, paring, peering, pioneering, poring, pouring, premiering, preparing, procuring, profiteering, racketeering, rearing, reassuring, reengineering, rehearing, repairing, restoring, roaring, scaring, scarring, scoring, searing, securing, sharing, shearing, shoring, smearing, snaring, sneering, snoring, soaring, sparing, sparring, Spearing, squaring, staring, starring, steering, stevedoring, storing, swearing, tarring, tearing, touring, uncaring, underscoring, unsparing, veering, volunteering, Waring, warring, wearing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-i-n-p-p-r-r-s" | |
-1 letter: reprising, respiring, springier. | |
-2 letters: grippers, grippier, inspirer, rerising, respring, snippier, speiring, spiering, springer. | |
-3 letters: gippers, gripers, gripier, gripper, grippes, inspire, nippers, nippier, peising, pigpens, pingers, pipings, prising, ringers, rippers, ripping, sipping, snipper, spinier, spirier, spiring, springe. | |
-4 letters: erring, genips, gipper, griper, gripes, grippe, nipper, pepsin, pieing, pigpen, pinger, pinier, pipers, pipier, piping, priers, reigns. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-i-n-p-p-r-r-s" | |
+2 letters: reappraising. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 72 73 70 69 72 69 6E 67 |
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| Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "perspiring" |
