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Definition: Regaining |
RegainingNoun1. Getting something back again; "upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "regaining" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: RegainingSynonyms: restitution (n), restoration (n), return (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Regaining |
| English words defined with "regaining": Readeption, recovery, repossession, retrieval. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "regaining": eye specialist ♦ oculis. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "regaining": Readeption. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We were regaining dimensionality when our ships collided and must've been subjected to a massive burst of photonic distortion (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin) But as a vehicle for regaining one's self-respect, oh, it's got a lot going for it. Damn right I turned it into a bomb (Edge of Darkness; writing credit: Troy Kennedy-Martin) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | While there is no proof that surgeons must operate to decompress the spinal cord within the 8-hour time window established for methylprednisolone, many believe it may help and try to do it then. Early surgery also allows earlier movement and earlier physical therapy, which are important for preventing complications and regaining as much function as possible. (references) | |
Business | German manufacturers were slow to react, but in the meantime the situation has changed and they are regaining market share. (references) | |
As demand for SUVs increased quickly, European car manufactures finally woke up and offered their own SUVs, regaining market share. (references) | ||
Some signs of regaining strength in the economy as well as technological development in the information technology sector are attracting international interest and rather significant foreign investment in Colombia. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Romania | In many cases, religious minorities have not succeeded in regaining possession of the properties despite restitution by these decrees. (references) |
Economic History | Latvia | Since regaining independence Latvia has rapidly advanced towards restoring a market economy with steady economic and financial reforms paving its way. (references) |
Lithuania | Lithuanian labor unions have minimal influence on the labor management but there has not been any major industrial strikes since regaining independence. (references) | |
Political Economy | Latvia | Latvia is a stable democracy that has made tremendous strides since regaining its independence in 1991. Eager to join Euro-Trans-Atlantic institutions, such as NATO and the European Union, the Latvian Government has pressed forward with a number of political and economic reforms designed to bring the country into compliance with EU and NATO requirements. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Regaining" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 98.17% of the time. "Regaining" is used about 109 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) | 98.17% | 107 | 31,463 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.83% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 109 | N/A |
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 |
regaining trust | 9 |
regaining | 7 |
lanka regaining sri | 4 |
in marriage regaining trust | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "regaining"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | æ"¶å¤ (regain). (various references) | |
German | zurückgewinnend, wiedergewinnend (reclaiming, reprising). (various references) | |
Greek | ανάκτηση (recaption, recapture, reclamation, recovery, regainment, repossession, retrieval). (various references) | |
Korean | ë˜ì°¾ìŒ. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | egainingray.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Regaining" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: regauging, reginiano, rogaining, Tregoning. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "regaining" (pronounced rugā"ning) |
| 5 | -g ā" n i ng | gaining. |
| 4 | -ā" n i ng | abstaining, ascertaining, attaining, campaigning, caning, chaining, complaining, constraining, containing, detaining, disdaining, draining, entertaining, explaining, feigning, maintaining, obtaining, ordaining, overtraining, pertaining, raining, refraining, reigning, reining, remaining, restraining, retaining, retraining, staining, straining, sustaining, training, waning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | apportioning, abandoning, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, assigning, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, envisioning, evening, examining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, 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, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, opening, opining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, rejoining, relearning, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-i-i-n-n-r" | |
-1 letter: angering, arginine, enraging, graining, reigning. | |
-2 letters: aginner, earning, engrain, gaining, gearing, ginnier, girning, grannie, ingrain, naggier, nearing, raining, ranging, reining, ringing. | |
-3 letters: ageing, airing, earing, gaeing, gainer, ganger, gieing, ginger, ginner, grange, inaner, nagger, narine, raging, reagin, regain, regina. | |
-4 letters: agger, aggie, aging, anger, eggar, gager, garni, genii, grain, inane, inner, iring, range, regna. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-g-i-i-n-n-r" | |
+1 letter: deraigning, engrailing, engraining, realigning. | |
+2 letters: denigrating, firefanging, germanizing, germinating, gratineeing, ingathering, integrating, malingering, reassigning, reimagining. | |
+3 letters: garnisheeing, generalising, generalizing, grecianizing, greenmailing, harbingering, impregnating, ingatherings, intergrading, preassigning, reorganizing. | |
+4 letters: fragmentizing, glycerinating, interchanging, intergrafting, interrogating, peregrinating, preganglionic, regionalizing, reintegrating, renegotiating, straightening. | |
+5 letters: antiaggression, disintegrating, overorganizing, predesignating, redintegrating, reinvigorating. | |
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