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Definitions: Reclining |
RecliningAdjective1. Lying down; in a position of comfort or rest. Noun1. The act of assuming or maintaining a reclining position. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "reclining" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: RecliningSynonyms: accumbent (adj), decumbent (adj), recumbent (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Reclining |
| English words defined with "reclining": Accubation, Accumbency ♦ Britzska ♦ chaise, chaise longue, Cubation ♦ daybed, decubitus, Discubitory, Discumbency ♦ lie, lie down ♦ Reclination, reclining chair, Reclining dial, Recumbence ♦ Tricliniary, Triclinium. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "reclining": Couch ♦ Dyspnea, Paroxysmal ♦ reclining back rest ♦ saloon car, saloon coach. (references) |
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Consumer Goods | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Schneider Index - Reclining : School Of Aviation Medicine.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Reclining nude.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Draftsman drawing a reclining nude.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Archibald MacLeish reclining, and Mark Van Doren seated on ground.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Peninsula, Va. The staff of Gen. Fitz-John Porter; Lts. William G. Jones and George A. Custer reclining.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Lion reclining.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Tiger reclining.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Schools. Students reclining on lawn.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Military subjects. Soldier reclining on bunk in barracks.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Theodor Horydczak and family. Theodor Horydczak in uniform reclining on grass in front of trailer.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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Health | You will lie on your back in a reclining chair in an exam room containing the laser system. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Reclining" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 59.52% of the time. "Reclining" is used about 84 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) | 59.52% | 50 | 48,117 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 33.33% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.14% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 84 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "reclining": reclining back rest ♦ reclining chair ♦ reclining dial ♦ reclining seat. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "reclining": half-reclining, semi-reclining. | |
| 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 "reclining"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مستلق (lying down, supine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | полулегнал. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 斜倚 (recline, Reclined). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sæde med indstilleligt ryglæn (reclining seat), liggevogn (coach with reclining berths or couchettes), liggeplads (berth, couchette, mooring place, reclining berth, shelter, sleeping accommodation), indstilleligt sæde (adjustable seat, reclining seat), Hepps redressement-korset (Hepp reclining corset). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zitplaats met verstelbare rugleuning (reclining seat), zitbank met verstelbare rugleuning (reclining seat), verstelbare zitplaats (adjustable seat, reclining seat), verstelbare zitbank (adjustable seat, reclining seat), verstelbare rugleuning (reclining back rest), ligrijtuig (coach with reclining berths or couchettes), ligplaats (anchorage, basin, bed ground, berth, couchette, creep area, lying box, moorage, mooring, reclining berth, sleeping accommodation, stance, stock camp, tying-up place). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | voiture-couchette (coach with reclining berths or couchettes), siège inclinable (reclining seat), siège dossier inclinable (reclining seat), place de couchette (reclining berth), place couchette (reclining berth), dossier inclinable (reclining back rest), couchette (reclining berth), corset reclinaison de Hepp (Hepp reclining corset). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | lehnend (leaning), legend (laying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανακλινόμενος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שכיב" (cohabitation, lying), "סב" (accubation, endorsement, indorsement, leaning back, transfer of property). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | állítható támlájú szék (recliner, reclining chair). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sedile inclinabile (adjustable seat, reclining seat), sedile a schienale reclinabile (reclining seat), schienale reclinabile (reclining back rest), posto di cuccetta (couchette, reclining berth), cuccetta (berth, bunk, couch, couchette, reclining berth), corsetto per reclinazione di HEPP (Hepp reclining corset), carrozza con cuccette (coach with reclining berths or couchettes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 臥龍 (exceptional person hidden among the masses, great man, reclining dragon), 臥竜 (exceptional person hidden among the masses, great man, reclining dragon), リアルタイ 処理 (liaison, Likud, liqueur, liquid, liquor, real politics, real price, real time processing, recall, recital, reclining seat, recommendation, reconstruction, recorder, recover, recovery, recovery shot, recreation, recruit, recruit fashion, recruiter, recurrent, recurrent neural network, recursion, recursive, recycle, recycle shop, recycling, re-engineering, regret, request, research, resize, rickettsia, Ricoh, rig, Rigel Kentaurus, rigorism, rigorist), 凭れ椅子 (reclining chair). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | がりゅう (exceptional person hidden among the masses, great man, one's own way, reclining dragon, self-taught), がりょう (exceptional person hidden among the masses, generosity, great man, magnanimity, reclining dragon, tolerance), リクライニングシート (reclining seat), もたれいす (reclining chair). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lieh-lhie (lean on, leaning, recline). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecliningray bamboleio (dingle-dangle, hesitation, rocking, shamble, shimmy, swaying, vacillation). (various references) laighe (subsiding). (various references) respaldo inclinable (reclining back rest), sillón reclinable (reclining chair), plaza de litera (couchette, reclining berth), litera (berth, bunk, bunk bed, cabin, couch, couchette, litter, reclining berth), corsé para reclinación de Hepp (Hepp reclining corset), coche cama (coach with reclining berths or couchettes, sleeping car, slumber coach), asiento reclinable (adjustable seat, reclining seat), asiento con respaldo inclinable (reclining seat). (various references) tillbakalutande. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Reclining" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: preclearing, recloning. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "reclining" (pronounced riklī"ning or rēklī"ning) |
| 7 | -i k l ī" n i ng | declining. |
| 5 | -l ī" n i ng | aligning, lining, realigning. |
| 4 | -ī" n i ng | assigning, brining, combining, confining, defining, designing, dining, divining, fining, mining, opining, pining, reassigning, redefining, redesigning, refining, resigning, shining, signing, twining, Vining, whining, wining. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abandoning, abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, apportioning, ascertaining, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, decommissioning, deepening, demeaning, Denning, detaining, determining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, reasoning, reawakening, reckoning, reconditioning, redlining, reexamining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shortening, shunning, sickening, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whitening, widening, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
| 6 | -k l ī" n i ng | declining. |
| 5 | -l ī" n i ng | aligning, lining, realigning. |
| 4 | -ī" n i ng | assigning, brining, combining, confining, defining, designing, dining, divining, fining, mining, opining, pining, reassigning, redefining, redesigning, refining, resigning, shining, signing, twining, Vining, whining, wining. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abandoning, abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, apportioning, ascertaining, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, decommissioning, deepening, demeaning, Denning, detaining, determining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, reasoning, reawakening, reckoning, reconditioning, redlining, reexamining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shortening, shunning, sickening, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whitening, widening, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-g-i-i-l-n-n-r" | |
-1 letter: clingier, incliner, relining. | |
-2 letters: ceiling, cinerin, clinger, cringle, ginnier, incline, lingier, reining. | |
-3 letters: cering, cringe, ginner, girlie, inlier, irenic, lignin, linger, linier, lining, ricing, riling. | |
-4 letters: cline, cling, genic, genii, icier, icing, ingle, inner, iring, liger, linen, liner, linin, nicer, reign, relic, renig, renin, ricin. | |
-5 letters: ceil, cine, cire, gien, girl, girn, glen, grin, lice, lien, lier, line, ling, linn, lire, liri, nice, nine, rein, rice, riel, rile, ring. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-g-i-i-l-n-n-r" | |
+1 letter: clinkering, encircling, princeling. | |
+2 letters: cylindering, interlacing, princelings, reconciling, relicensing. | |
+3 letters: centralising, centralizing, discerningly, increasingly, interlocking, recanalizing, recolonizing. | |
+4 letters: cantilevering, credentialing, glycerinating, intelligencer, intercalating, nitroglycerin, preganglionic, reinoculating. | |
+5 letters: antiallergenic, countervailing, credentialling, decentralizing, dechlorinating, denuclearizing, electioneering, electrowinning, endocrinologic, intelligencers, nitroglycerine, nitroglycerins, porcelainizing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 63 6C 69 6E 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -.-. .-.. .. -. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100011 01101100 01101001 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e c l i n i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0063 006C 0069 006E 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527169787580758073 |
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