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Definition: Purifying |
PurifyingAdjective1. Serving to purge or rid of sin; "purgatorial rites". 2. Freeing from noxious matter; "filtration is a purifying agent". 3. Acting like an antiseptic. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "purifying" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Respiratory equipment whose function is to remove contaminants from otherwise wholesome air. (references) |
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Synonyms: PurifyingSynonyms: cleansing (adj), purgatorial (adj), purging (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: adulterating (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cleanness | Abstergent, cathartic, cleansing, purifying. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Purifying |
| English words defined with "purifying": activated carbon, activated charcoal ♦ Cupel dust ♦ Depurative ♦ Exhaust purifier, Expurgatory ♦ Fumigatory ♦ Lustration ♦ Montanist ♦ refine, refinery ♦ Wash bottle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "purifying": air scrubber ♦ BOLTER HELPER ♦ Detergents ♦ gaz purifier ♦ Mattaniah, MERCURY PURIFIER, Mond process ♦ oil rectifier, OXYGEN-PLANT OPERATOR ♦ sand filter, sifter operator ♦ Water of purification. (references) |
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Health | At this time, each treatment involves extracting cells from each individual patient, purifying the cells, and then growing them in culture before inactivating and chemically altering them. This makes the production of quantities sufficient for therapy extremely time consuming, labor intensive, and expensive. (references) | |
Business | U.S.-manufactured APC equipment is more competitive in specific industry subsectors, particularly in the areas of filtering or purifying equipment and gas or smoke analysis and monitoring equipment. (references) | |
U.S. manufactured APC equipment is considered more competitive in specific industry subsectors, particularly in the areas of filtering or purifying equipment and gas or smoke analysis and monitoring equipment. (references) | ||
The water is then sold to either bulk water purchasers, who serve the needs of the major metropolitan areas, or (refer to footnote) directly from the DWAF to local towns and rural authorities (responsible for purifying their own water). (references) | ||
Economic History | Yemen | Yemen has 5 major mineral water purifying and bottling companies. (references) |
Turkey | Best sales prospects for air pollution control are filtering and purifying machinery, dust collectors, scrubbers, and process control equipment. (references) | |
Spain | U.S. was the second largest exporter to Spain of water purifying machinery and apparatus in 1999. In 2000, it became the largest exporter to Spain of that equipment as well as this year from January to March. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Purifying" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Purifying" is used about 36 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% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 13.89% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.56% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.56% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 36 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "purifying": coefficient of purifying. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "purifying": air-purifying, self-purifying, water-purifying. | |
| 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 "purifying"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 净化 (Cathartic, Cathartically, Purgative, Purified, Purify). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | pilleformet rensemateriale (pelleted purifying material), udvinding og rensning af naturgas (extraction and purifying of natural gas), rensemateriales aktivitet (activity of a purifying material), rensemasse (purifying material), renhedsgrad (cleanliness, coefficient of purifying, purity), luftrensningsfaktor (coefficient of purifying), granuleret rensemasse (pelleted purifying material), blodrensende te (blood purifying tea), anlaeg for rensning og toerring af oxygen (block for drying and purifying of oxygen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zuiveringsmassa (purifying material), zuiverheidscoofficiint van lucht (coefficient of purifying), winning en zuivering van aardgas (extraction and purifying of natural gas), olieopvang- en zuiveringsapparatuur (oil collecting and purifying equipment), korrelvormige zuiveringsmassa (pelleted purifying material), installatie voor het drogen en reinigen van zuurstof (block for drying and purifying of oxygen), activiteit van een zuiveringsmassa (activity of a purifying material). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | puhdistusteho (purifying efficiency), puhdistusmassa (purifying material), puhdistuslaitteisto (purifying apparatus), puhdistuslaite (purifying apparatus), maakaasun tuotanto ja puhdistus (extraction and purifying of natural gas), ilmanpuhdistumiskerroin (coefficient of purifying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | purificateur (purifier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | reinigend (cathartic, cleaning, cleansing, defecating, detergent, detergently, purging, purificatory, scavenging, scouring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοκκώδες υλικό καθαρισμού (pelleted purifying material), συντελεστής καθαρισμού (coefficient of purifying), μέσο καθαρισμού (purifying mass), υλικό καθαρισμού (flux, purifying mass), άντληση και καθαρισμός φυσικού αερίου (extraction and purifying of natural gas), τσάϊ αιμοκάθαρσης (blood purifying tea), δραστικότητα καθαρτικού υλικού (activity of a purifying material). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | צריפ" (refining), פוי (sifting, winnowing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tisztítás (brushing, clarification, cleaning, defecation, elutriation, flush, purgation, purge, purging, purification, refinement, scaling, scour, scrubbing, settling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | materia depurante (purifying material), massa depurante granulata (pelleted purifying material), estrazione e depurazione di gas naturale (extraction and purifying of natural gas), blocco essiccatore e purificatore dell'ossigeno (block for drying and purifying of oxygen), attivit di una massa depurante (activity of a purifying material). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 浄化槽 (septic tank, tank for purifying water), 御手洗 (font of purifying water placed at the entrance of a shrine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | じょうかそう (septic tank, tank for purifying water), みたらし (font of purifying water placed at the entrance of a shrine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 순" (Domestication, Fining). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urifyingpay matéria purificadora (purifying material), matéria depuradora granulada (pelleted purifying material), extracção e refinação de gás natural (extraction and purifying of natural gas), chá depurante (blood purifying tea), actividade duma matéria depuradora (activity of a purifying material). (various references) purificador (purgatorial, purificator, purificatory, purifier), purificación (Candlemas, purification, refinement), depurador (debugger, purifier, scrubber), depuración (depuration, purge, scrubbing). (various references) reningsutrustning (purifying apparatus), reningsmassa (purifying material), reningseffekt (purifying efficiency), renhetsgrad (cleanliness, coefficient of purifying), luftrenhetsgrad (coefficient of purifying), anläggning för torkning och rening av syrgas (block for drying and purifying of oxygen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | purificatio, purificatione, purificationem, purificationis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 15, Verse 9 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai ouden diekrinen metaxu hmwn te kai autwn th pistei kaqarisaV taV kardiaV autwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et nihil discrevit inter nos et illos fide purificans corda eorum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And no thing diuerside bitwixe vs and hem, `and clenside the hertis of hem bi feith. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he put no difference bitwene them and vs but with fayth purified their hertes. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Making no division between them and us, but making clean their hearts by faith. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 15, Verse 9 |
| Albanian | dhe ai nuk bëri asnjë dallim midis nesh dhe atyre, duke i pastruar zemrat e tyre me anë të besimit. |
| Cebuano | Ug tali kanato ug kanila, siya wala maghimog kalainan, sanglit gihinloan man niya ang ilang mga kasingkasing pinaagi sa pagtoo. |
| Chinese | 又 藉 著 信 " 淨 了 他 們 的 心 、 並 不 分 他 們 我 們 。 |
| Croatian | Nikakve razlike nije pravio izmeðu nas i njih: vjerom oèisti njihova srca. |
| Danish | Og han gjorde ingen Forskel imellem os og dem, idet han ved Troen rensede deres Hjerter. |
| Dutch | En heeft geen onderscheid gemaakt tussen ons en hen, gereinigd hebbende hun harten door het geloof. |
| Finnish | eikä tehnyt mitään erotusta meidän ja heidän kesken, sillä hän puhdisti heidän sydämensä uskolla. |
| French | il n`a fait aucune différence entre nous et eux, ayant purifié leurs coeurs par la foi. |
| German | und machte keinen Unterschied zwischen uns und ihnen und reinigte ihre Herzen durch den Glauben. |
| Haitian Creole | Li pa t' fè okenn diferans ant yo menm ak nou menm: nou wè li lave kè yo paske yo te kwè nan li. |
| Hungarian | És semmi különbséget sem tett mi köztünk és azok között, a hit által tisztítván meg azoknak szívét. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Allah tidak membeda-bedakan kita dengan mereka. Ia menyucikan hati mereka, karena mereka percaya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | maka suatu pun tiada diperbuat-Nya perbedaan di antara kita dengan mereka itu, sesudah hati mereka itu disucikan-Nya oleh sebab iman. |
| Italian | e non ha fatto nessuna discriminazione tra noi e loro, purificandone i cuori con la fede. |
| Maori | Kahore hoki i puta ke tona whakaaro ki a tatou, ki a ratou, i o ratou ngakau kua ma i a ia i runga i te whakapono. |
| Norwegian | og han gjorde ingen forskjell mellem oss og dem, idet han ved troen renset deres hjerter. |
| Rumanian | N`a fqcut nici o deosebire kntre noi wi ei, kntruckt le -a curqyit inimile prin credinyq. |
| Russian | Й ОЕ ПМПЦЙМ ОЙЛБЛПЗП ТБЪМЙЮЙС НЕЦ"Х ОБНЙ Й ЙНЙ, ЧЕТПА ПЮЙУФЙЧ УЕТ""Б ЙИ. |
| Shuar | Yus incha aushatka awajtamsachmaji, Tímiayi. Antsu métekraketji. Tuma asamtai niisha Yúsan Enentáimtuiniakui, Yuska Enentáiyan ni tunaarin japirarmai, Tímiayi. |
| Swahili | Hakufanya ubaguzi wowote kati yetu na wao; aliitakasa mioyo yao kwa imani. |
| Swedish | Och han gjorde ingen åtskillnad mellan oss och dem, i det att han genom tron renade deras hjärtan. |
| Uma | Kita' to Yahudi pai' hira' to bela-ra to Yahudi, uma napoposisala. Napakaroli' nono-ra apa' mepangala' -ramo hi Yesus. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "purifying": copurifying, repurifying. (additional references) | |
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"Purifying" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pei-ying, putrifying. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "purifying" (pronounced pyuh"rufī'ing) |
| 6 | -r u f ī' i ng | clarifying, electrifying, gentrifying, glorifying, horrifying, terrifying, verifying. |
| 5 | -u f ī' i ng | amplifying, certifying, classifying, codifying, disqualifying, diversifying, edifying, exemplifying, falsifying, fortifying, gratifying, identifying, intensifying, justifying, magnifying, modifying, mummifying, mystifying, notifying, nullifying, oversimplifying, qualifying, quantifying, ratifying, reclassifying, rectifying, signifying, simplifying, solidifying, specifying, stultifying, testifying, unifying. |
| 4 | -f ī' i ng | satisfying, unsatisfying. |
| 3 | -ī' i ng | multiplying, occupying, outlying. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-i-i-n-p-r-u-y" | |
-2 letters: nigrify. | |
-3 letters: firing, fringy, frying, ignify, prying, purify, riping. | |
-4 letters: fungi, gripy, iring, piing, purin, ruing, unify, unrig, unrip. | |
-5 letters: firn, frig, frug, fury, girn, grin, grip, gyri, pfui, ping, piny, pirn, prig, pung, puny, puri, pyin, ring, ruin, rung. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-i-i-n-p-r-u-y" | |
+2 letters: copurifying, repurifying. | |
+4 letters: prequalifying. | |
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