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Date "SLEWING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | 1. Of a gyro, the rotation of the spin axis caused by applying torque about the axis of rotation.2. In radar, changing the scale on the display. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | The sideways motion of a crane. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. The rotation of a crane jib so that the load moves through the arc of a circle on a horizontal line. (references) |
Physics | The rotation of the spin axis about an axis parallel to that of the applied torque causing the rotation. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SLEWING |
| Specialty definitions using "SLEWING": Hopkinson chain machine ♦ torquing. (references) |
| "SLEWING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "SLEWING" is used about 8 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% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "SLEWING": slewing crane ♦ slewing rate. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
slewing ring | 15 |
bearing slewing | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SLEWING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kranarmens bevaegelse i det vandrette plan (swinging), hurtigdrejning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zwenken (turn, turn around, turn round). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pikakäännös. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | balayage, balancement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schwenkung (pan, panning, swerve, swing, wheel), Schnellführen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | περιφορά άξονα γυροσκοπίου, ταλάντωσις (swinging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | circonvoluzione (convolution), brandeggio (swinging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ewingslay movimento lateral do braço de grua (swinging), movimento giratório (spin, swinging), balanço (audit, balance sheet, rocking, sway, swing, teeter, vacillation, waggle, weighing machine). (various references) rotación (revolution, rotation, spinning, whirl), balanceo (rocking, sway, swaying, swing, swinging, teeter). (various references) stighastighet (slew rate, slewing rate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"SLEWING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ilewin, shewyng, slewn, ssewing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: swingle. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-n-s-w" | |
-1 letter: ingles, sewing, single, swinge. | |
-2 letters: glens, ingle, lenis, lewis, liens, lines, lings, lweis, segni, sengi, sinew, singe, sling, swine, swing, wiles, wines, wings. | |
-3 letters: egis, engs, gels, gens, gien, gies, gins, glen, isle, legs, leis, lens, lien, lies, line, ling, lins, lwei, news, nils, sewn, sign, sine, sing, slew, swig, wens, wigs, wile. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-l-n-s-w" | |
+1 letter: longwise, swelling, swingled, swingles, welshing, weltings, wingless, winglets. | |
+2 letters: dwellings, lacewings, swellings, swiveling, towelings, weaklings, weanlings, weaseling, wheelings, wineglass, wrestling. | |
+3 letters: clearwings, growliness, lawyerings, lengthwise, sweepingly, sweltering, swivelling, towellings, upswelling, upwellings, weaselling, wellspring, willingest, wrestlings. | |
+4 letters: disboweling, lowercasing, swingletree, wellsprings, wholesaling, willingness, wineglasses, wirelessing. | |
+5 letters: bowdlerising, disbowelling, growlinesses, lawbreakings, misknowledge, nightwalkers, outwrestling, racewalkings, sleepwalking, spacewalking, stonewalling, swaggeringly, swelteringly, swingletrees, whisperingly, winglessness. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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