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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Piggybacking 1. A method for passing acknowledgement frames and data frames in the same direction along a line. 2. The practice of increasing memory capacity by soldering chips on top of other chips. The chip-enable or high address pins would be connected to the address bus by a flying lead. Many Ohio Superboards were expanded to a massive 8K of RAM in this way. (1994-11-29). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Public Administration | Transport of complete truck trailers on railroad flatcars. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: PIGGYBACKING |
| Non-English Usage: "PIGGYBACKING" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (piggybacking). |
| "PIGGYBACKING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PIGGYBACKING" 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 |
piggybacking | 9 |
anti piggybacking | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PIGGYBACKING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 扛在肩上. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | piggy-backing, piggybacking. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | piggybacking (piggyback, rail transport of road trailers US), TOFC, trailer-on-flat-car), op-de-rug-meerijden, gecombineerd weg-spoor vervoer (piggy backing, piggy-back transport), gecombineerd weg-rail vervoer (piggy backing, piggy-back transport). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | "reppuselkäkuittaus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | piggybacking, ferroutage (piggyback). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Huckepacken. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σύστημα μεταφοράς piggy-back (piggy backing, piggy-back transport), σύνδεση σε υπόκεντρο, επωμισμός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | piggybacking. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iggybackingpay piggybacking. (various references) обратного направления. (various references) transporte "a cuestas". (various references) piggybacking. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PIGGYBACKING" (pronounced pi"gēba'king) |
| 5 | -b a' k i ng | quarterbacking. |
| 4 | -a' k i ng | backtracking, carjacking, hijacking, kayaking, meatpacking, ransacking, wisecracking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | aching, antismoking, asking, attacking, backing, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, fucking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, racking, raking, ranking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-g-g-g-i-i-k-n-p-y" | |
-3 letters: piggyback. | |
-5 letters: backing, bagging, bigging, packing, paiking, panicky, picking, pigging, yacking. | |
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