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Definition: Shifting |
ShiftingAdjective1. Continuously moving or changing from position or direction; "he drifted into the shifting crowd"; "their nervous shifting glances". 2. Continuously varying; "taffeta with shifting colors". 3. (of soil) unstable; "shifting sands"; "unfirm earth". Noun1. The act of moving from one place to another; "his constant shifting disrupted the class". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shifting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | The transverse alteration in the position of a ship's cargo. It is generally caused by the inclination of the vessel, either by the amplitude of rolling or by a heavy list during a certain length of time. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | The action of operating a reversing mechanism(= "reversal")or a speed-changing mechanism. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | SHIFTING. Shuffling. Tricking. Shifting cove; i.e. a person who lives by tricking. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In its original usage, a transmission was a mechanical assembly, usually with gears, for changing the nature of motion supplied by some sort of power source to make it more suitable for utilization equipment. Early transmissions included right-angle drives and other gearing in windmills, horsepowers, and steam engines, mainly in support of pumping, milling, and hoisting applications.Most commonly today, the transmission is a component of the automobile. Two main types are in use today: the automatic transmission, and the manual, synchronized transmission. Earlier cars and trucks used an unsynchronized transmission.
Transmissions are also used in agricultural, industrial, construction, and mining equipment. In addition to ordinary transmission equipped with gears, such equipment makes extensive use of the hydrostatic drive and Ward-Leonard controls.
Simple transmissions
The simplest transmissions, sometimes called gearcases, provide gear reduction (or, more rarely, an increase in speed), sometimes in conjunction with a right-angle change in direction of the shaft. These are often used on PTO powered agricultural equipment, since the axial PTO shaft is at odds with the usual need for the driven shaft, which is either vertical (as with rotary mowers), or horizontally extending from one side of the implement to another (as with manure spreaders, flail mowers, and forage wagons. More complex equipment, such as silage choppers and snowblowers, has drives with outputs in more than one direction.
Regardless of where they are used, these simple transmissions all share an important feature: the gear ratio cannot be changed during use. It is fixed at the time the transmission is constructed.
Unsynchronized transmission
The earliest automotive transmissions were unsynchronized. They could be shifted, with multiple gear ratios available to the operator, and even had reverse. But the gears were engaged by sliding mechanisms or simple clutches, which required a skilled operator who could use timing and careful throttle manipulation when shifting, so that the gears would be spinning at roughly the same speed when engaged.
When upshifting, double clutching was sometimes used. However, many transmssions were easier to shift from one gear to another without the use of the clutch at all. The clutch, in these cases, was only used for starting and stopping.
Most transmissions used in automotive and truck applications are contained in a cast iron case, though sometimes aluminum is used for lower weight. There are three shafts: a mainshaft, a coutershaft, and an idler shaft.
The mainshaft extends outside the case in both directions: the input shaft towards the engine, and the output shaft towards the rear axle. The shaft is suspended by the main bearings, and is split towards the input end. At the point of the split, the pilot bearing holds the shafts together. The gears and clutches ride on the mainshaft, the gears being free to turn relative to the mainshaft except when engaged by the clutches.
The countershaft is generally below the mainshaft and turns in the opposite direction, driven by a bevel gear on the input shaft.
Synchornized transmission
Synchronized transmissions began to appear in the 1930s, and incorporated synchronizers that were capable of bringing the countershaft up to speed, and aligning the gears in phase, prior to engagement. By the 1960s most passenger automobiles with manual transmissions were synchronized.
Automatic transmission
In telecommunication, the term transmission has the following meanings:
1. The dispatching, for reception elsewhere, of a signal, message, or other form of information.
2. The propagation of a signal, message, or other form of information by any means, such as by telegraph, telephone, radio, television, or facsimile via any medium, such as wire, coaxial cable, microwave, optical fiber, or radio frequency.
3. In communications systems, a series of data units, such as blocks, messages, or frames.
4. The transfer of electrical power from one location to another via conductors.
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Transmission."
Synonyms: ShiftingSynonyms: unfirm (adj), shift (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Changeableness | Moon, Proteus, chameleon, quicksilver, shifting sands, harlequin, Cynthia of the minute, April showers; wheel of Fortune; transientness. |
Continuance in action | Passage; transit, transition; transmigration, shifting; Verb: phase; conjugation; convertibility. |
Motion | Adjective: moving; Verb: in motion; transitional; motory, motive; shifting, movable, mobile, mercurial, unquiet; restless; (changeable); nomadic; erratic. |
Transfer | Succession, reversion; shifting use, shifting trust; devolution. |
Transference | Transit, transition; passage, ferry, gestation; portage, porterage, carting, cartage; shoveling; Verb: vection, vecture, shipment, freight, wafture; transmission, transport, transportation, importation, exportation, transumption, transplantation, translation; shifting, dodging; dispersion; transposition; (interchange); traction. |
Transientness | Adjective: transient, transitory, transitive; passing, evanescent, fleeting, cursory, short-lived, ephemeral; flying; Verb: fugacious, fugitive; shifting, slippery; spasmodic; instantaneous, momentaneous. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Shape shifting. We do it for kicks (Wolfen; writing credit: David Eyre; Whitley Strieber) Long ago in a distant land, I, Aku, the shape shifting master of darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil (Samurai Jack; writing credit: Paul Waite) | |
Lyrics | Changes are shifting outside the word (No More "I Love You's"; performing artist: Annie Lennox) Ans it’s half past four, and I’m shifting gear (Radar Love; performing artist: Golden Earring) Shifting like the handle of a slot machine (RHYTHM OF MY HEART; performing artist: Rod Stewart) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Shifting Scenes (1929) In Shifting Sands: The Truth About Unscom and the Disarming of Iraq (2001) Shifting Gere (1990) | |
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 | Fort Story coast defense. Shifting the range on one of Fort Story's giant guns. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Women in war. Filling station attendant. Tires need checking too? Shifting trends of employment in wartime America have opened up new jobs for such women as this young East Liverpool, Ohio, girl who has pioneered in two new fields since graduation from hi. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Shifting drifts of dust will soon force this farmer to abandon his home near Liberal, Kansas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Holland grass planted by the Resettlement Administration crews keep the shifting sand dunes along the coast in place. Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "_TRANSPORT:47" by Janus R. Sørensen Commentary: "We all live in a world of interconnection... a world of continuous dynamicism... a world of perpetual and neverending information transport. In order for our socitey to thrive, we must communicate. New ideas, concepts, and feelings all transverse the gl" | "Orchids" by Jozsef Szoke Commentary: "Reminds me some kind of sadness. crop the frame if you wish. modified picture (with sharpening in the middle and color shifting - actually the originals were pink)." |
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 | Waver; changeful; fluctuating; fluid; inconstant; indecisive; irregular; irresolute; irresponsible; kaleidoscopic; mercurial; mobile; movable; mutable; permutable; protean; restless; reversible; revocable; shifting; skittish; spasmodic; transformable; tra. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Emily Dickinson | Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | Before we cast away the solid assurances of national armaments for self-preservation we must be certain that our temple is built, not upon shifting sands or quagmires, but upon the rock. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | PSP patients have trouble voluntarily shifting their gaze downward, and also can have trouble controlling their eyelids. (references) | |
The epidemic in the United States is currently shifting to young people, particularly those who are gay, members of racial and ethnic minorities, and out-of-school adolescents. (references) | ||
Again, this operation allows the nonparalyzed cord to make better contact with the paralyzed cord. Adding bulk to the vocal cord or shifting its position can improve both voice and swallowing. (references) | ||
Business | As these figures indicate, Japanese consumers are shifting to less expensive retail outlets. (references) | |
This industry, however, is shifting towards waste treatment for recycling, recovery and reutilization. (references) | ||
According to this trend, grain and sugar cane growers are shifting from traditional methods of production. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | South Africa | Media freedom advocates noted the ruling as an important change in shifting the burden of proof from the media to the plaintiff. (references) |
China | Overseas dissident publications respond to attempts by authorities to block their sites by constantly shifting their e-mail origination address. (references) | |
Economic History | Russia | Political parties: Shifting. (references) |
Human Rights | India | Defendants are allowed to question witnesses against them, present their own witnesses and evidence, and have access to government evidence held against them; however, under the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance, preventive detention can be authorized for up to 180 days, effectively shifting the burden of proof to the defendant. (references) |
Kenya | The Commission recommended amending the Constitution to allow for the removal of incompetent judges, introducing a code of ethics, improving the independence of the judiciary, overhauling the Judicial Services Commission (the administrative branch of the judiciary), and shifting prosecutorial responsibilities from the police to the judiciary. (references) | |
Political Economy | Burkina Faso | In 2000 the Government adopted an antipoverty strategy to open the economy to market forces, while shifting resources to the education and health sectors. (references) |
Political Rights | Afghanistan | Most political changes came about through shifting military fortunes. (references) |
Travel | Egypt | After heavy rains, which can cause flooding in desert areas, and the consequent shifting of land mines, travelers should avoid driving through build-ups of sand on roadways. (references) |
Worker Rights | Norway | The Government changed the wage negotiating process in 1996, shifting negotiations from the national to the local and company level. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Each of those elections had its shifting moods of the moment, its headlines of one day that were forgotten the next. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Our common ground is shifting out from under us. |
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| "Shifting" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 76.81% of the time. "Shifting" is used about 676 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) | 76.81% | 519 | 11,718 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 14.62% | 99 | 32,870 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.53% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.03% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 676 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "shifting": consonant shifting ♦ horizontal shifting ♦ shifting agriculture ♦ shifting arm ♦ shifting backstays ♦ shifting ballast ♦ shifting boards ♦ shifting center ♦ shifting control ♦ shifting cultivation ♦ shifting locomotive ♦ shifting sand ♦ shifting sands ♦ shifting spanner ♦ shifting trust ♦ shifting use ♦ sound shifting. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "shifting": shifting-cultivation. | |
Ending with "shifting": band-shifting, ever-shifting, value-shifting. | |
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| 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 "shifting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ndryshim (alteration, amendment, change, difference, disparity, dissimilarity, dissimilation, dissimilitude, distinction, inflection, inflexion, innovation, manipulation, metamorphosis, modification, mutation, permutation, recast, reversal, reverse, shift, switch, transit, transition, turn, variation), lëvizje (bustling, buzz, drift, flow, locomotion, motion, move, movement, removal, stir, traffic, transfer), i ndryshueshëm (alterable, changeable, changeful, fickle, flexible, inconstant, labile, mercurial, mobile, movable, mutable, protean, transitional, uncertain, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, various, varying, vertiginous), i lëvizshëm (dapper, inconstant, live, mobile, movable, moveable, moving, removable, sliding, spry, variable). (various references) | |
Arabic | متنقل (ambulant, itinerant, migratory, mobile, portable, roving, strolling), مراوغ (deceitful, devious, dodgy, elusive, evasive, shifty, wily). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сменяване (removal, renewal), справяне (handling, management, reference), тъпчене (stuffing, trample), променлив (baffling, changeable, choppy, erratic, fitful, fluctuating, fluent, inconsistent, inconstant, liquid, mobile, protean, undecided, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, variant, varied, versatile, volatile), подвижен (adjustable, adjusting, agile, airy, ambulatory, detachable, drop, flexible, floating, light, limber, lissome, lithe, live, lively, mobile, movable, moveable, moving, nimble, nippy, ready, removable, resilient, sliding, traveling, travelling, versatile). (various references) | |
Chinese | 转移 (Abalienate, metastasis, shift, Shifted, Transferred, Transferring). (various references) | |
Danish | omstyring (alternate route, alternation, alternative route, alternative routing, change-over, re-routing, reversal, reverse, reversing), forskydning af lasten. (various references) | |
Dutch | snelheidsverandering (change-over, gear changing, gear shift), schuiven van lading, overgaan (cross, go beyond, pass, pass by, sound, transfer). (various references) | |
Esperanto | universala ŝraŭbilo (monkey-wrench, shifting spanner), universala ŝraŭbŝlosilo (monkey-wrench, shifting spanner). (various references) | |
Finnish | siirtyminen (change-over, postponement, removal, shift), vaihto (change, changing, exchange, interchange, replacement), vaihtaminen (change-over, cutover), lastin siirtyminen. (various references) | |
French | ripage, mutation, désarrimage, déplacement (shift), changement de vitesse (shift), changement de marche, changeant. (various references) | |
German | wechselnd (alternating, changeable, changing, intermittent, rotating, variable, varyingly), verstellung (adjustment, alteration, blockage, disguise, dissimulation, feigning, feint, misaligned, misplacing, moving, obstruction, pretending), Versetzung (mixing, moving up, permutation, posting, staggering, transfer, transposition), verschiebung (alteration, deferment, deferral, displacement, heave, moving, postponement, remission, shift, shunting, slip), verlegung (laying, moving, postponement, transfer, transposition), veränderlich (changeable, fluctuating, inconstant, mutable, mutably, unsettled, variable, variably, varying), umspringend (jumping round), Umschaltung (change, change over, changeover, shift), grossschreibend, Übergehen, abwälzend. (various references) | |
Greek | μετακίνηση φορτίου, μετατόπιση φορτίου, αλλαγή κίνησης (change-over), αλλαγή ταχύτητας (change-over, gear changing, gear shift). (various references) | |
Hebrew | הזזה (displacement, removal, shift), הסטה (removal). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sebességváltás, váltóállítás (pointing), tolatás (shunt), műszakbeosztás, horgonyzóhely-változtatás, földszállítás, földmozgatás, eltolás, elszállítás (dispatch), elmozduló, elmozdítás (deposition, dislocation, displacement), csúszás (crawl, creep, glide, gliding, lapse, skid, skidding, slide, sliding, slip, slipping), átrakás (overside, transshipment), átkapcsolás (switch over). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penggeseran (moving). (various references) | |
Italian | spostamento (change of position, displacement, movement, moving, postponement, shift), slittamento (fall, postponement, skidding, sliding, slipping), trasferimento (crossover, demise, movement, overpass, removal, transfer), mutevole (changeable, changing, fickle, flighty, inconstant, mercurial, mutable, protean, variable), mobile (cabinet, changeable, floating, furniture, maneuverable, mobile, movable, moving, personal, portable, sliding, unstable), cambio di marcia (change-over, changing gear). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 入れ替わり (change, replacement, substitution). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いれかわり (change, replacement, substitution). (various references) | |
Korean | 교대 (shift). (various references) | |
Manx | shuital, scughey (budge, dislodge, dislodgement, displace, displacement, evict, eviction, move, moving, quit, removal, remove, scoot, shift, shift about). (various references) | |
Norwegian | skiftenøkkel (monkey-wrench, shifting spanner). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iftingshay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | resvalo da carga, pouco firme (incompact, infirm, insecure, niddle-noddle, rattletrap, shaky, tottering, tottery, uncertain, unsafe, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unsure, weak-kneed, wobbly, wonky), mudança de velocidade (change-over, gear changing, gear shift), mudança de marcha (change-over), móvel (cause, fitment, flexile, flying, mobile, movable, moving, piece of furniture, portable, rolling, traveling, travelling, wandering), inconstante (astatic, capricious, changeable, changeful, desultory, fanciful, fickle, flighty, giddy, impermanent, inconstant, light-minded, mutable, skittish, uncertain, unequable, unequal, unreliable, unstable, unsure, variable, versatile), incerto (borderline, chancy, double-minded, doubtful, doubting, dubious, fitful, floating, hazardous, incalculable, inconstant, insecure, kittle, lubricous, precarious, problematic, questionable, risky, shaky, slippery, slippy, tottery, touch and go, touch-and-go, unassured, uncertain, undecided, unreliable, unsettled, unstable, unsure), deslocável, desigual (different, discriminatory, disparate, hackly, incommensurate, inequable, joggly, lacerated, lopsided, one-sided, patchy, ragged, rough, rugged, scratchy, snatchy, spotty, unequable, unequal, uneven). (various references) | |
Romanian | reprofilare (adaptation, readaptation, readjustment, reconversion, reshaping), mutaţie (alteration, change, mutation), deplasare (dislocation, displacement, move, movement, upheaval). (various references) | |
Russian | сдвигать смещение непостоянный, переключение (change over, changeover, commutation, shunt, throwback), переключающий, переводной, перевод (interpretation, render, rending, rendition, transfer, transferal, translation). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | promenljiv (changeable, changing, declinable, fickle, impermanent, mutable, unsettled, unsteady, variable, variant, volatile), promena (change, changing, declension, inflection, modification, shift, transit, transition, vicissitude), premeštanje (displacement, image displacement, parallax, transposition), prebacivanje (reproof), pokretan (ambulatory, floating, impellent, locomotive, maneuverable, manoeuvrable, mobile, motile, movable, moveable, moving, personal), koji prebacuje, koji menja, koji gura. (various references) | |
Spanish | ripado (advancing, pushover, ripping), movedizo (loose, maneuverable, mobile, movable, moving, portable, quick, shaky, unsteady), deslizamiento (glide, glissade), corrimiento (slipping), cambio de marcha (change-over), avance (advance, advance payment, advanced, attack, development, drive, lead, looting, preview, progress, seaway, thrust, trailer). (various references) | |
Swedish | skiftande (changing, protean, variegated). (various references) | |
Turkish | hareketli (active, alive and kicking, animate, bouncing, brisk, bustling, full of action, go-go, like a jack-in-the-box, live, mobile, moving, rattling, restless, sliding, swinging, zippy), değişken (capricious, changeable, changeful, choppy, erratic, factor, fickle, fitful, flexible, flexile, fluid, fluxional, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, inequable, labile, mercurial, mobile, mutable, protean, sliding, streaked, streaky, swinging, uncertain, unfunded, unstable, unsteady, variable, variant, versatile). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хитрий (arch, argute, artful, astute, canny, cattish, crafty, cunning, devious, doleful, enterprising, foxy, hard-headed, leery, pawky, shrewd, sly, tricky, wide, wily), непостійний (ambulatory, capricious, changeable, changeful, fickle, flighty, impermanent, instable, mercurial, non-permanent, unstable, unsteady, variant, volatile, voluble, weathercock). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | mobilibus, mobilior, mobilis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "shifting": downshifting, unshifting, upshifting. (additional references) | |
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"Shifting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Schiffrin, Schriften, shiating, Shiffins, Shifrin, shiftin, shitin, swifting. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "shifting" (pronounced shi"fting) |
| 5 | -i" f t i ng | drifting, gifting, lifting, sifting. |
| 4 | -f t i ng | airlifting, crafting, drafting, grafting, rafting, shafting, shoplifting, uplifting, wafting, weightlifting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | annotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, accosting, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, adjusting, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, arresting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, assisting, associating, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, casting, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, composting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consisting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, delisting, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disgusting, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, duplicating, dusting, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, everlasting, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, existing, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, glinting, gloating, graduating, granting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingesting, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, investing, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, laminating, lasting, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lighting, limiting, liquidating, listing, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, lusting, malting, mandating, manifesting, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, nesting, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, posting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, readjusting, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, recasting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, rusting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, sheeting, shooting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, toasting, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: infights. | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-h-i-i-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: fishing, fisting, histing, infight, insight, sifting. | |
-2 letters: fights, finish, nights, siting, things. | |
-3 letters: fight, finis, gifts, hints, intis, nighs, night, shift, sight, sting, thing, thins, tings. | |
-4 letters: figs, fins, fish, fist, fits, ghis, gift, gins, gist, gits, hins, hint, hisn, hist, hits, inti, nigh, nisi, nits, shin, sift, sigh, sign, sing, sinh, sith, snit. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-h-i-i-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: fightings. | |
+2 letters: infighters, insightful, nightlifes, outfishing, unshifting, upshifting. | |
+3 letters: fishtailing, flightiness, infightings, shoplifting. | |
+4 letters: downshifting, insightfully, pathfindings, sportfishing. | |
+5 letters: bullfightings, cockfightings, firefightings, flightinesses, fortnightlies, freethinkings, sportfishings. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Historic 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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