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Rearing

Definitions: Rearing

Rearing

Adjective

1. (heraldry) rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile; "a lion rampant".

Noun

1. The properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child.

2. Raising someone to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "rearing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Rearing

DomainDefinitions

Industry

Setting flat-ware on edge. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Rearing

Synonyms: rampant(ip) (adj), breeding (n), bringing up (n), fosterage (n), fostering (n), nurture (n), raising (n), upbringing (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Rearing

English words defined with "rearing": AviculturedisapproveFernery, Fish culture, Foster leanMartingalPesade, Pheasantry, Pontlevisrampant, Rearing bit, rejectStock station, Syndyasmian. (references)
Specialty definitions using "rearing": BeastsChild Rearing, community placement workerdoing the Mom thingEthylketocyclazocineFISH FARMER, fish farming, fish hatchery assistant, fish hatchery attendant, FISH HATCHERY WORKER, fish-breedingintake workerMANAGER, DAIRY FARMPOULTRY SCIENTIST, PSYCHOLOGIST, SOCIALsocial service worker, SUPERVISOR, FISH HATCHERY, Sycamine tree. (references)

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Modern Usage: Rearing

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Rearing Rachel (1990)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Rearing

DomainTitle

Books

  • Cats Naturally: Natural Rearing for Healthier Domestic Cats (reference)

  • Miss Manners Guide to Rearing Perfect Children (reference)

  • Psittaculture: Breeding, Rearing and Management of Parrots (reference)

  • The Warrior Method: A Program for Rearing Healthy Black Boys (reference)

  • The Whelping and Rearing of Puppies: A Complete and Practical Guide (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Rearing

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Photo Album: Rearing

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Little Port Walter in January at the salmon rearing pens.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Salmon rearing pens at Little Port Walter Research Station.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

The typical unaltered pond/slough system that existed before the restoration. the restoration connected a series of ponds to allow fish to pass into and out of their spawning habitat. The image above is a good example of prime juvenile salmon and steelhead trout rearing habitat.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Coleman National Fish Hatchery, the raceways for rearing young salmon.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The watershed at Quivett Creek also features a beautiful old cemetery and a pond that is used by anadromous alewives for spawning and juvenile rearing habitat.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A female Catolaccus grandis wasp homes in on a boll weevil larva. This 3/8 inch parasitic wasp, a native of Mexico, inserts her ovipositor through the plastic film covering the individual rearing cell and immobilizes the larva. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

A sixteenth-inch-long female biting midge, Culicoides sonorensis, feeds blood delivered through artificial membrane developed for mass insect rearing. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Dragon rearing up to reach medieval knight on ledge.Credit: Library of Congress.

Sculpture of two rearing horses pulling chariot, in a Roman museum.Credit: Library of Congress.

Preparing banks for grass planting in one of ten two-acre fish rearing ponds on Welaka wildlife and forest conservation project. Welaka, Florida.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Rearing

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

There, also, these sweet and heartrending words were said by a little foundling that the convent was rearing through charity.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Rearing

SubjectTopicQuote

Children

Tonga

Child abuse is rare and has not become a source of concern in a society in which the extended family participates in child rearing. (references)

Economic History

Kenya

G. LIVESTOCK: Investment opportunities exist in the rearing of livestock for meat and dairy products. (references)

Kyrgyzstan

The republic possesses a mountainous terrain, which accommodates livestock rearing, the largest sector within agriculture. (references)

Women

Turkey

As parents, husband and wife exercise joint child rearing rights, but when they disagree, the husband's view often prevails. (references)

Senegal

In the countryside, women performed much of the subsistence farming and child rearing and have limited educational opportunities. (references)

Bulgaria

Women generally continued to have primary responsibility for child rearing and housekeeping, even if they are employed outside the home. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Rearing

"Rearing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 76.56% of the time. "Rearing" is used about 209 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)76.56%16024,760
Noun (singular)17.7%3756,631
Adjective (general or positive)4.78%10111,207
Noun (proper)0.96%2245,945
                    Total100.00%209N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Rearing

Expressions using "rearing": Child Rearing conciliation rearing poultry rearing rearing bit rearing up. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "rearing": stock-rearing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rearing

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

rearing horse

237

child rearing

68

arabian rearing

20

rearing stallion

12

rearing

12

black horse rearing

12

horse picture rearing

10

queen rearing

10

calf rearing

6

bay horse rearing

5

puppy rearing

5

butterfly rearing

4

friesian rearing

4

insect rearing

4

horse paint rearing

4

christian child rearing

4

natural rearing

4

bay rearing

4

mustang rearing

4

child cost rearing

4
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Modern Translations: Rearing

Language Translations for "rearing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

抚养 (Reared). (various references)

   

Danish

  

stejle, opdraetning (growing, raising, stock farming, stockrearing), opdraet (animal to be reared, growing, raising, rearer, stock farming, stockrearing). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

veeteelt (growing, raising, stock farming, stockrearing), steigeren, opfok (growing, raising, stock farming, stockrearing). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kasvatus (breeding, education, growing, raising, stock farming, stockrearing, training, upbringing). (various references)

   

French

  

élevage. (various references)

   

German

  

Aufzucht (breeding, growing, raising, stock farming, stockrearing). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

όπισθεν (abaft, back, backside, behind, breech, overleaf, rear, reverse, reverse gear, verso), εκτροφή (growing, raising, stock farming, stockrearing). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

selyemhernyótenyésztés (rearing of silk-worms), méhészkedés (beekeeping, rearing bees), méhészet (apiary, rearing bees), baromfitenyésztés (rearing of poultry). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

asuhan (education, upbringing). (various references)

   

Italian

  

impennata (prance, sudden rise, zoom). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

飼育 (breeding, raising). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しいく (breeding, raising), ぼう ち (standing bolt upright, standing upright), ほいく (lactation, nursing, nurturing, suckling), いくせい (cultivation, nurture, promotion, training), やしない (bringing up, nourishment, nurture, nutrition), よういく (bringing up, upbringing). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

기름 (OIL). (various references)

   

Manx

  

troggal (arise, boost, breed, breeding, bring off, bringing up, build, building, buzz off, construct, contract, contract as disease, contraction, development, edifice, elaborate, elaboration, elevate, freshen, freshen of wind, gather up, getting up, harvest, heave, heave as shoulders, hoist, input, invoke, lift, lifting, nurture, pick off; absorption, pick up, pull in, put up, raise, raise up, rally, rear, rig up, rise, set in rows, sing up, structure, take, train, train as child, winch, wind, winding). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

earingray

   

Portuguese

  

produção animal (growing, raising, stock farming, stockrearing), monta-cargas (lift dumper "retracted", lift dumper "up"). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

culturã (breeding, civility, crop, cultivation, culture, education, growing, growth, letter). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

rach (nursing). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nega (attendance, care, nursing). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

encabritamiento, crianza (breeding, growing, mannerliness, nurture, raising, stock farming, stockrearing, upbringing), cría (baby, breeding, brood, calf, growing, junior, litter, raising, stock farming, stockrearing, young). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

uppfödning (breeding, farming, growing, raising, stock farming, stockrearing), överstegring (stall of a turbocompressor, stalling). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

şaha kalkma (curvet, rampancy, rearing up). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

việc tr"ng trọt sự l"ng lên, cách nuôi dạy việc chăn nuôi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Rearing

Derivations

Words ending with "rearing": uprearing. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Rearing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: areering, Greatrigg, rairing, rarings, rarint, reairing, realing, rearrang, Rearwin, reaving, recarving, Redring, refrig, reparing, rering. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Rearing"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "rearing" (pronounced ri"ring)
4-i" r i ngadhering, appearing, bioengineering, cheering, clearing, disappearing, domineering, earring, electioneering, engineering, fearing, gearing, hearing, interfering, nearing, overhearing, pioneering, premiering, profiteering, racketeering, reengineering, rehearing, searing, shearing, smearing, sneering, Spearing, steering, veering, volunteering.
3-r i ngacquiring, admiring, adoring, airing, alluring, aspiring, assuring, baring, barring, bearing, blaring, boring, caring, chairing, charring, childbearing, comparing, conspiring, curing, daring, declaring, deploring, despairing, during, endearing, enduring, ensuring, expiring, exploring, firing, flaring, flooring, glaring, Goring, haring, herring, hiring, ignoring, impairing, imploring, inspiring, insuring, jarring, jeering, luring, marring, maturing, ministering, mooring, obscuring, outpouring, overbearing, overpowering, pairing, paring, peering, perspiring, poring, pouring, preparing, procuring, quiring, reassuring, rehiring, repairing, restoring, retiring, roaring, scaring, scarring, scoring, securing, sharing, shoring, snaring, snoring, soaring, sparing, sparring, squaring, staring, starring, stevedoring, storing, swearing, tarring, tearing, tiring, touring, uncaring, underscoring, uninspiring, unsparing, Waring, warring, wearing, wiring.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Rearing

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: angrier, earring, grainer, rangier.

Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-r-r"

-1 letter: earing, erring, gainer, garner, ranger, raring, reagin, regain, regina, ringer.

-2 letters: airer, anger, garni, gnarr, grain, range, regna, reign, renig, reran, rerig.

-3 letters: ager, agin, airn, earn, gaen, gain, gane, gear, gien, girn, gnar, gran, grin, near, rage, ragi, rain, rang, rani, rare, rear, rein, ring.

-4 letters: age, ain, air, ane, ani, are, ear, eng, era, erg, ern, err, gae, gan, gar, gen, gie, gin, ire, nae, nag, rag, ran, reg, rei, ria, rig, rin.

-5 letters: ae, ag, ai, an, ar, en, er, in, na, ne, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-r-r"
 

+1 letter: averring, earrings, gnarlier, grainers, grainier, orangier, rearming, regainer.

 

+2 letters: arraigned, arresting, barbering, bargainer, barreling, bartering, careering, cratering, debarring, embarring, garnering, garniture, gartering, granaries, grandsire, gregarine, grenadier, harbinger, margarine, orangerie, organiser, organizer, prearming, preparing, rarefying, rearguing, recrating, redrawing, reearning, reframing, regainers, regarding, regearing, regrading, regrating, rehearing, remarking, repairing, reparking, reracking, reraising, rereading, retarding, retearing, retracing, rewarding, rewarming, serrating, terracing, uprearing.

 

+3 letters: adrenergic, antimerger, bargainers, barrelling, charminger, chartering, corrigenda, denigrator, disarrange, earmarking, forbearing, forearming, garnierite, garnitures, garrisoned, generatrix, grandsires, grangerism, gregarines, grenadiers, harbingers, integrator, intergrade, intergraft, interorgan, interregna, malingerer, margarines, margravine, orangeries, organisers, organizers, overdaring, overrating, partnering, perorating, prehearing, prewarming, prewarning, quarreling, quartering, readorning, realtering, rearousing, reassuring, reboarding, recarrying, recharging, recharting, recreating, redarguing, redrafting, redreaming, refracting, refraining, registrant, regrafting, regranting, rehearings, rehearsing, relearning, remarrying, renaturing, reorganize, repapering, rephrasing, rereadings, respraying, restarting, retracking, retracting, retraining, retreading, retreating, rewrapping, ringbarked, ringleader, ringmaster, scarpering, trailering, traversing, treasuring, triggerman, wharfinger.

 

+4 letters: aerobraking, aggrandizer, arraignment, arrestingly, carbureting, carrageenin, cerebrating, correlating, denigrators, denigratory, disarranged, disarranges, enrapturing, ferrimagnet, fingerboard, forewarning, forswearing, fragrancies, garnierites, gendarmerie, generalizer, gingerbread, glengarries, gormandizer, grangerisms, graniteware, greenmailer, handwringer, harbingered, heartstring, impregnator, integrators, intergraded, intergrades, intergrafts, interrobang, interrogate, malingerers, margravines, menorrhagia, mercurating, merrymaking, misaverring, overarching, overbearing, overdrawing, overfearing, overgrazing, overhearing, overtrading, overwarming, overwearing, peregrinate, perforating, preaverring, preclearing, precreasing, prefranking, prehearings, pretraining, pretreating, prewrapping, procreating, quarrelling, quarterings, reabsorbing, reacquiring, reaffirming, reappearing, reapproving, rearranging, rearresting, reasserting, reassorting, rebranching, recapturing, recarpeting, reembarking, reengraving, refrangible, refrigerant, regathering, registrants, rehammering, rehardening, rehydrating, reintegrate, reiterating, remarketing, remastering, remeasuring, remigration, renographic, reoperating, reordaining, reorganized, reorganizer, reorganizes, reproaching, reprobating, reradiating, rereleasing, rerepeating, researching, respreading, restraining, resurfacing, retailoring, retargeting, rethreading, retroacting, rewardingly, ringleaders, ringmasters, ringstraked, springwater, strangering, stranguries, trailerings, transfigure, underrating, unirrigated, unrewarding, wharfingers, wiredrawing.

 

+5 letters: aggrandizers, arraignments, carburetting, carpentering, carrageenins, charactering, copartnering, deprograming, disregarding, embarrassing, ferrimagnets, fingerboards, forereaching, foreswearing, forgathering, fraternizing, gendarmeries, generalizers, generatrices, geriatrician, gingerbreads, gingerbready, gormandizers, grandiflorae, granitewares, granodiorite, greenmailers, hairdressing, handwringers, harbingering, heartburning, heartrending, heartstrings, heartwarming, hemorrhaging, iconographer, impregnators, interchanger, intergrading, intergrafted, interlarding, interrobangs, interrogated, interrogatee, interrogates, interrogator, kindergarten, loganberries, mastersinger, menorrhagias, merrymakings, micromanager, nonirrigated, overcharging, overclearing, overcramming, overfavoring, overlaboring, overlearning, overorganize, overpraising, overreaching, overreacting, overtraining, overtreating, overwatering, peregrinated, peregrinates, perpetrating, preapproving, prearranging, preinaugural, premarketing, premeasuring, premigration, preordaining, privateering, proofreading, racketeering, readdressing, reappraising, reassuringly, rechartering, recuperating, redecorating, redintegrate, reformatting, refrigerants, regeneracies, regenerating, regeneration, regenerative, registration, regularizing, reintegrated, reintegrates, reinvigorate, relacquering, remaindering, remigrations, remortgaging, remunerating, renographies, reorganizers, reorganizing, repatriating, repatterning, replastering, repolarizing, reprimanding, reprograming, repurchasing, reregulating, reregulation, retrograding, revalorizing, springwaters, straightener, superorganic, terraforming, trademarking, transferring, transfigured, transfigures, transmigrate, warmongering, watermarking.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Rearing


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 61 72 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    .    .-    .-.    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01100001 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#97 &#114 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0061 0072 0069 006E 0067

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

52716784758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Usage Frequency
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Derivations
15. Rhymes
16. Anagrams
17. Orthography
18. Bibliography


  

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