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Definition: Relaxing |
RelaxingAdjective1. Affording or marked by rest or repose; "the time spent was pleasant and relaxing"; "a restful night"; "a cool and reposeful glen". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "relaxing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
simple:LeisureLeisure time is time in which there is no job to do, or at least not one that needs doing "right-a-way". This time can be used to do almost anything that brings rest and relaxation.
This time can be spent on two main kinds of leisure:
Active leisure, active recreation, leisure sport (going to the gym, etc.; sport for fun rather than for competition); staves off boredom.
Lounging, "doing nothing": the kind of 'reclining-in-the-sun' type leisure, which implies going to sleep or a near-sleep lounging state. In a way it is "wasting time", but not really, if you like it (if not, it is called boredom).
Sport fishing may fall in both categories, depending on how active one is.
A more recent concept is that of quality time.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Leisure."
Synonyms: RelaxingSynonyms: reposeful (adj), restful (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Relaxing |
| English words defined with "relaxing": dreamy ♦ Emollition ♦ leisure wear ♦ Malacissant ♦ Relaxative, rested. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "relaxing": Bellman-Ford algorithm ♦ Flavoxate ♦ Guaiacol Glyceryl Ether ♦ Kegel. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "relaxing": Anetic. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Fine, you guys can haul your candy asses half way across the state and back, but I'll be on the other side relaxing with my thoughts (Stand by Me; writing credit: Raynold Gideon) Oh, hardly relaxing, but most satisfying (Diamonds Are Forever; writing credit: Richard Maibaum) Relaxing, I hope (Diamonds Are Forever; writing credit: Richard Maibaum) He's not relaxing, is he (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; writing credit: Steven Kloves) Tell her, she's the one that needs relaxing! (Press Gang; writing credit: Steven Moffat) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Icefishing and tanning on the NOAA Ship SURVEYOR Helo pilots relaxing in the Bering Sea. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Great Egret relaxing at Ferguson Lake. Credit: Susanna Henry. |
 | U.S. American National Red Cross Convalescent Home for Nurses, Putney, England. : Nurses relaxing in the drawing room. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Photograph probably taken on board USS Minnesota (Battleship # 22), circa 1910, and published on a stereograph card by the Keystone View Company during the World War I period. Note other men relaxing and reading. Note "Nick Carter" magazine in center, and men at right holding a USS Minnesota cap ribbon. . See Photo # NH 85292 (extended caption) for the text printed on the original stereograph card's reverse side, concerning the sailors' "comfort bags" and other items provided by American women through the Red Cross and Navy League during World War I. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Crewmen relaxing on deck, while the ship was in the James River, Virginia, on 9 July 1862. View looks forward on the starboard side, with the gun turret beyond. Note men playing checkers at right. Another man is reading a newspaper by the starboard smokestack. Credit: NAVY. |  | Woodrow Wilson relaxing on a hammock while fire crackers "Mulhall," "Lamar," "T.R. Roast," and "Lobby" explode around him. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Blondie. Oh, boy! Everybody's gone...what a chance to take a nice, hot relaxing bath / Chic Young. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Atlanta, Ga. Federal soldiers relaxing by guns of captured fort. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | James River, Va. Sailors relaxing on deck of U.S.S. Monitor. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Cowhands relaxing at Quarter Circle 'U' roundup. Big Horn County, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Relaxing" by Frank Van Den Hurk Commentary: "Women reading." | "Relaxing in the park" by Thorarinn Stefansson Commentary: "A sunny day in a London park." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Relaxing your pelvic muscles will help make this part of the test easier. (references) | |
Diastolic heart failure--This occurs when the heart has a problem relaxing. (references) | ||
Opioids are pain-killing and relaxing drugs that can suppress RLS and PLMS in some people. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Singapore | Under the ISA, a detainee's movement may be restricted, although this provision normally is a part of the process of relaxing the conditions of detention and has been used very seldom in recent years. (references) |
Vietnam | In recent years, the Government eased its efforts to control the Roman Catholic hierarchy by relaxing the requirements that all clergy belong to the Government-controlled Catholic Patriotic Association. (references) | |
Economic History | Saudi Arabia | These limits are relaxing, but slowly. (references) |
Human Rights | Ukraine | In January the Parliament passed amendments to the Penal Code, relaxing Soviet-era restrictions in high-security prisons and removing a requirement that all prisoners' letters should be read. (references) |
Political Economy | Afghanistan | The Taliban appeared to reverse a 2-year trend of relaxing enforcement of restrictions on women and girls and increasingly restricted female education and participation in the labor force. (references) |
PAKISTAN | Key features of Pakistan's investment climate include a general policy of permitting foreign investors to participate in local projects at 100-percent equity, relaxing work permit and remittance restrictions on expatriate managers and technical personnel, eliminating government approval requirements (with a few very limited exceptions), providing statutory protection against expropriation, and allowing unrestricted local borrowing by foreign entities. (references) | |
Travel | Czech Rep | In central Prague, visitors will often find walking faster (and more relaxing) than auto travel. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Relaxing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 75.88% of the time. "Relaxing" is used about 456 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) | 75.88% | 346 | 15,378 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 21.27% | 97 | 33,269 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.97% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.88% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 456 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "relaxing": body-relaxing. | |
| 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 "relaxing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zbutës (buffer, emollient, extenuatory, lenitive, mitigatory, palliative, propitiation, propitiator, propitiatory, tamer). (various references) | |
Arabic | مستريح (at ease, at rest, comfortable, relaxed, rested), مسترخ (relaxed, restful), مريح (agreeable, calming, comfort, comfortable, convenient, cosy, easeful, easy, easygoing, refreshing, restful, smooth, snug, soothing). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отпускащ. (various references) | |
Chinese | 放松 (letdown, relax, relaxed, unbrace, unbraced). (various references) | |
Danish | maskine til afspænding af strikvarer (machine for relaxing knitted fabrics). (various references) | |
Finnish | neulosten relaksointikone (machine for relaxing knitted fabrics). (various references) | |
French | relaxant. (various references) | |
German | entspannend (slackening, soothing, unbending, uncocking, unwinding), entspannende, ausspannend. (various references) | |
Greek | που σε χαλαρώνει. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מרגיע (abirritant, bland, restful), מנוחה (ease, quiet, repose, rest, resting place, tranquillity), נופש (recreation, relaxation, taking rest). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nyugtató (balmy, bland, sedative, soothing, tranquillizer), bágyasztó. (various references) | |
Italian | fattore di rilassamento derivato dall'endotelio (endothelium-derived relaxing factor). (various references) | |
Korean | 이완 (relaxation). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | elaxingray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | relaxante (relaxant), laxativo (aperient, deobstruent, depletive, laxative, loose, loosener, opener, purgative), laxante (aperient, deobstruent, laxative, loose, opener, purgative), calmante (calmative, composing, depressant, easeful, healing, mollifier, painkiller, paregoric, salve, sedative, soothing, tranquilizer, tranquillizer). (various references) | |
Romanian | odihnitor (appeasing, composing, grateful, mild, recreating, reposeful, reposing, restful, resting, soothing), laxativ (aperient, laxative). (various references) | |
Russian | смягчающий (demulcent, emollient, extenuatory, mitigatory, soothing). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | koji razonođuje, koji opušta. (various references) | |
Spanish | relajante (relaxant). (various references) | |
Swedish | vilsam, avkopplande. (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งช่วยให้ผ่อนคลาย. (various references) | |
Turkish | rahatlatma (comforting, facilitation, relief, relieving), rahatlatıcı (anodyne, comfortable, comforting, composing, solvent, soothing), yumuşatıcı (balsamic, laxative, plasticizer), huzur veren (balmy, balsamic, calming, piping, quiet, restful, smooth, soothing), gevşetici (slackening, solvent), gerginlik giderici, dinlendirici (balmy, balsamic, calming, quiet, recreative, reposeful, restful, soothing). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | спад (chute, decline, degression, descent, fall, ramp, sag, wane), розслаблюючий, розслаблення (relaxation), пом'якшуючий (palliative), пом'якшення (alleviation, appeasement, assuagement, easement, give, mitigation, mollification, palatalization, reduction, relaxation, softening). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | làm yếu đi, làm giảm đi (remissive), làm chùng, làm bớt căng thẳng khí hậu làm bải hoải. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Relaxing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ralahine, realsing, reflexing, reglazing, relain, reliaing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "relaxing" (pronounced rula"ksing or rēla"ksing) |
| 5 | -a" k s i ng | faxing, taxing, waxing. |
| 4 | -k s i ng | annexing, affixing, boxing, coaxing, fixing, flexing, indexing, intermixing, mixing, perplexing, vexing, xeroxing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | announcing, accessing, acquiescing, addressing, advancing, amassing, assessing, balancing, basing, blessing, bouncing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coercing, collapsing, commencing, compressing, condensing, conferencing, confessing, conversing, convincing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, dancing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, denouncing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispensing, dispersing, displacing, distancing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enhancing, enticing, erasing, expensing, experiencing, expressing, facing, fencing, financing, focusing, forcing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, inducing, influencing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, Lancing, lapsing, leasing, lensing, licensing, loosing, massing, menacing, mensing, messing, mincing, missing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outdistancing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pronouncing, pulsing, racing, reassessing, rebalancing, recessing, redressing, reducing, referencing, refinancing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, releasing, reminiscing, renouncing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, seducing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, servicing, showcasing, silencing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, teleconferencing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, trouncing, unceasing, unconvincing, underpricing, unpromising, videoconferencing, voicing, waltzing, wincing, wissing, witnessing. |
| 5 | -a" k s i ng | faxing, taxing, waxing. |
| 4 | -k s i ng | annexing, affixing, boxing, coaxing, fixing, flexing, indexing, intermixing, mixing, perplexing, vexing, xeroxing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | announcing, accessing, acquiescing, addressing, advancing, amassing, assessing, balancing, basing, blessing, bouncing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coercing, collapsing, commencing, compressing, condensing, conferencing, confessing, conversing, convincing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, dancing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, denouncing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispensing, dispersing, displacing, distancing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enhancing, enticing, erasing, expensing, experiencing, expressing, facing, fencing, financing, focusing, forcing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, inducing, influencing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, Lancing, lapsing, leasing, lensing, licensing, loosing, massing, menacing, mensing, messing, mincing, missing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outdistancing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pronouncing, pulsing, racing, reassessing, rebalancing, recessing, redressing, reducing, referencing, refinancing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, releasing, reminiscing, renouncing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, seducing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, servicing, showcasing, silencing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, teleconferencing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, trouncing, unceasing, unconvincing, underpricing, unpromising, videoconferencing, voicing, waltzing, wincing, wissing, witnessing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-r-x" | |
-1 letter: aligner, engrail, nargile, realign, reginal, relaxin. | |
-2 letters: alexin, aliner, angler, earing, gainer, genial, glaire, larine, linage, linear, linger, nailer, raxing, reagin, regain, regina, regnal, renail, xenial. | |
-3 letters: agile, algin, alien, align, aline, angel, anger, angle, anile, argil, argle, ariel, axile, axing, elain, garni, glair, glare, glean, gnarl, grail, grain, ingle, lager, large, laxer. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-r-x" | |
+4 letters: exhilarating. | |
+5 letters: externalising, externalizing, extrapolating. | |
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