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Definition: Savoring |
SavoringNoun1. Taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality; "cooking was fine but it was the savoring that he enjoyed most". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "savoring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references) |
Synonyms: SavoringSynonyms: degustation (n), relishing (n), savouring (n), tasting (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Savoring |
| English words defined with "savoring": degustation, Deistical ♦ relishing ♦ savouring ♦ tasting. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume. (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) He was everywhere; caring, helping; and above all savoring the experience. (The Ryan White Story; writing credit: Phil Penningroth;) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "savoring"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | genießend (enjoying, relishing). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | avoringsay | ||||
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Words ending with "savoring": outsavoring. (additional references) | |
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"Savoring" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: avoring, Davorin, Gavurin, Javorina, Sabortini, Sarojini, Savarin, savouring. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "savoring" (pronounced sā"vering) |
| 5 | -ā" v er i ng | disfavoring, favoring, flavoring, unwavering, wavering. |
| 4 | -v er i ng | covering, delivering, discovering, endeavoring, hovering, levering, maneuvering, quivering, recovering, rediscovering, severing, shivering, uncovering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | administering, altering, anchoring, angering, answering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, belaboring, beleaguering, bettering, bewildering, bickering, blistering, blundering, blustering, bolstering, bordering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clamoring, clobbering, clustering, cluttering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, countering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doctoring, doddering, embroidering, empowering, encountering, endangering, entering, factoring, faltering, fathering, feathering, featuring, festering, figuring, filibustering, filtering, fingering, flattering, flickering, floundering, flowering, fluttering, fostering, foundering, fracturing, frittering, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glittering, glowering, grandfathering, guttering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hectoring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, lettering, lingering, littering, loitering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, manufacturing, massacring, mastering, maundering, meandering, measuring, mentoring, metering, minoring, mirroring, mitering, mongering, monitoring, mothering, motoring, murdering, murmuring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neighboring, neutering, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, pestering, petering, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plastering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, puttering, recapturing, reconsidering, reentering, registering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, scampering, scattering, scouring, sculpturing, sequestering, shattering, sheltering, shimmering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, shuttering, simmering, slaughtering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smattering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, squandering, staggering, structuring, stuttering, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, sweltering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, teetering, tempering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, tottering, towering, transpiring, triggering, tutoring, unflattering, ushering, uttering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, warmongering, watering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, wondering, Wuthering, zippering. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-o-r-s-v" | |
-1 letter: origans, ravings, rovings, signora, soaring, viragos. | |
-2 letters: argons, arsino, avions, girons, grains, grison, groans, groins, invars, norias, oaring, onagri, orangs, organs, origan, rasing, raving, ravins, rosing, roving, sarong, saving, savior, signor, soring, sovran, vigors, virago, virgas. | |
-3 letters: agios, agons, airns, argon, arson, arvos, avion, aviso, gains, garni, girns, giron, giros, gnars, gonia, grain, grans, grins, groan, groin, invar, irons, naris, noirs, noria, noris, novas, orang, organ, ornis, ragis, rains, ranis, ravin, rings, roans, rosin, sarin, savin, savor, sonar, vairs, vangs, vigas, vigor, vinas, vinos, virga, visor. | |
-4 letters: agin, agio, agon, ains, airn, airs, anis, arvo, avos, gain, gars, gins, girn, giro, gnar, goas, gran, grin, inro, ions, iron, nags, naoi, naos, nogs, noir, nori, nova, oars, osar, ragi, rags, rain, rang, rani, rias, rigs, ring, rins, roan, sago, sain, sang, sari, sign, sing, snag, snog, soar, song, sora, sori, sorn, vagi, vain, vair, vang, vans, vars, viga, vigs, vina, vino, visa. | |
-5 letters: ago, ain, air, ais, ani, ars, avo, gan, gar, gas, gin, goa, gor, gos, ins, ion, nag, nog, nor, nos, oar, ons, ora, ors, ova, rag, ran, ras, ria, rig, rin, sag, sin, sir, son, sri, van, var, vas, via, vig, vis. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-o-r-s-v" | |
+1 letter: gravitons, savouring, vaporings. | |
+2 letters: flavorings, navigators, oversaving, valorising, vaporising, viraginous. | |
+3 letters: disfavoring, granivorous, invigorates, laborsaving, outsavoring, overcasting, overpassing, oversalting, oversaucing, oversoaking, overstating, overstaying, overtasking, vainglories. | |
+4 letters: aggravations, disapproving, earthmovings, gravitations, investigator, invigilators, invigorators, overcastings, overpraising, oversanguine, overstaffing, seronegative, vainglorious, variegations, venographies, woodcarvings. | |
+5 letters: eavesdropping, graminivorous, investigators, investigatory, invigorations, nonaggressive, overasserting, overmastering, overorganizes, overshadowing, overslaughing, overspreading, overstraining, reinvigorates, revegetations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 76 6F 72 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- ...- --- .-. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01110110 01101111 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a v o r i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 0076 006F 0072 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5367888184758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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