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Definition: Slinging |
SlingingNoun1. Throwing with a wide motion (as if with a sling). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "slinging" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references) |
Crosswords: Slinging |
| English words defined with "slinging": Parbuckle ♦ Top-chain. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "slinging": DAVID ♦ Grommet, Gromet, Grumet. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Slinging mud everywhere like an animal. (The 13th Warrior; writing credit: William Wisher Jr.) | |
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| "Slinging" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Slinging" is used about 30 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) | 100% | 30 | 63,341 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "slinging": mud-slinging. | |
| 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 |
slinging | 5 |
mud slinging | 4 |
ink slinging | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "slinging"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 投掷 (Darted, Darting, Pelted, Pelting, Slung, Threw, throw, Throwing, thrown, thrown-away, Throw-off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | loefte i strop. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | hijsen aan stroppen, hijsen aan lengen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | élingage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | schleudernd (centrifuging, darting, flinging, hurling, tossing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rágalmazás (aspersion, calumniation, defamation, libel, mud-slinging, obloquy, slander, vilification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | imbragaggio, imbracatura (harness, sling, strapping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 던짐 (Flinging, Plunging, throw, Throwing, tossing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ingingslay dispositivo de lingagem dos carros (device for slinging of trucks). (various references) бросать (cast, cast off, на корме, dart, dash, drop, dump, fling, give over, give up, heave, hurl, jilt, launch, pitched, plant, project, put, quit, relinquish, shoot, slam down, slings, slung, threw, throw, throw over, thrown, toss). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "slinging": gunslinging, mudslinging, unslinging. (additional references) | |
Words containing "slinging": gunslingings, mudslingings. (additional references) | |
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"Slinging" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Esslingen, silaging. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "slinging" (pronounced sli"nging) |
| 5 | -l i" ng i ng | clinging, flinging. |
| 4 | -i" ng i ng | bringing, ringing, singing, springing, stinging, stringing, swinging, winging, wringing. |
| 3 | -ng i ng | banging, belonging, clanging, ganging, hanging, haranguing, longing, mudslinging, overhanging, prolonging, upbringing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: singling. | |
| Words within the letters "g-g-i-i-l-n-n-s" | |
-1 letter: lignins, linings, signing, singing. | |
-2 letters: isling, lignin, lining, linins. | |
-3 letters: lings, linin, linns, sigil, sling. | |
-4 letters: gigs, gins, inns, ling, linn, lins, nils, nisi, sign, sing. | |
-5 letters: gig, gin, inn, ins, lin, lis, nil, sin. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-g-i-i-l-n-n-s" | |
+1 letter: nigglings, shingling, signaling, sniggling, swingling. | |
+2 letters: englishing, ensilaging, glistening, lightnings, signalling, stingingly, swingingly, unslinging. | |
+3 letters: agglutinins, anglicising, fingerlings, folksinging, galvanising, gunslinging, languishing, misaligning, mudslinging, reshingling, signalising, signalizing, sloganizing. | |
+4 letters: disgruntling, folksingings, generalising, gingerliness, gunslingings, lysogenising, lysogenizing, mudslingings, nightingales, obligingness. | |
+5 letters: antismuggling, disentangling, isoagglutinin, languishingly, niggardliness, singularizing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6C 69 6E 67 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .-.. .. -. --. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S l i n g i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006C 0069 006E 0067 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)5378758073758073 |
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