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Definitions: Rearing |
RearingAdjective1. (heraldry) rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile; "a lion rampant". Noun1. 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) |
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Industry | Setting flat-ware on edge. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: RearingSynonyms: rampant(ip) (adj), breeding (n), bringing up (n), fosterage (n), fostering (n), nurture (n), raising (n), upbringing (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Rearing |
| English words defined with "rearing": Aviculture ♦ disapprove ♦ Fernery, Fish culture, Foster lean ♦ Martingal ♦ Pesade, Pheasantry, Pontlevis ♦ rampant, Rearing bit, reject ♦ Stock station, Syndyasmian. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rearing": Beasts ♦ Child Rearing, community placement worker ♦ doing the Mom thing ♦ Ethylketocyclazocine ♦ FISH FARMER, fish farming, fish hatchery assistant, fish hatchery attendant, FISH HATCHERY WORKER, fish-breeding ♦ intake worker ♦ MANAGER, DAIRY FARM ♦ POULTRY SCIENTIST, PSYCHOLOGIST, SOCIAL ♦ social service worker, SUPERVISOR, FISH HATCHERY, Sycamine tree. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Rearing Rachel (1990) | |
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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. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There, also, these sweet and heartrending words were said by a little foundling that the convent was rearing through charity. |
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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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 76.56% | 160 | 24,760 |
| Noun (singular) | 17.7% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.78% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.96% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 209 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "rearing": Child Rearing ♦ conciliation rearing ♦ poultry rearing ♦ rearing bit ♦ rearing up. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "rearing": stock-rearing. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 produção animal (growing, raising, stock farming, stockrearing), monta-cargas (lift dumper "retracted", lift dumper "up"). (various references) culturã (breeding, civility, crop, cultivation, culture, education, growing, growth, letter). (various references) rach (nursing). (various references) nega (attendance, care, nursing). (various references) 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) uppfödning (breeding, farming, growing, raising, stock farming, stockrearing), överstegring (stall of a turbocompressor, stalling). (various references) şaha kalkma (curvet, rampancy, rearing up). (various references) việc tr"ng trọt sự l"ng lên, cách nuôi dạy việc chăn nuôi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "rearing": uprearing. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rearing" (pronounced ri"ring) |
| 4 | -i" r i ng | adhering, 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 ng | acquiring, 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. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 61 72 69 6E 67 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .- .-. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100001 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e a r i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0061 0072 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52716784758073 |
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