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Date "SLOSHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | The back-and-forth movement of a liquid fuel in its tank, creating problems of stability and control in the vehicle. (references) |
Physics | Movement to-and-fro of liquid in its tank, which may adversely affect stability and control in a vehicle. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "SLOSHING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 88.00% of the time. "SLOSHING" is used about 25 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) | 88% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Noun (singular) | 8% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "SLOSHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | svingning af vaesker, skvulpen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | klotsen (lap, plash, splash), kabbelen van wateroppervlak. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | loiskuminen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | oscillation des liquides, ballottement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Schwappen (slop, slosh, splash, swash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | κλειστός κυματισμός, ανατάραξη υγρού. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | sbattimento su e giù, oscillazione (fluctuation, oscillation, rocking, swinging, vibration, waving), agitazione a sbattimento. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oshingslay deslocamento nos fluidos, agitação (agitation, commotion, disturbance, emotion, excitation, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fidget, flurry, fluster, flutter, freak-out, fret, furor, furore, fuss, inquietude, perturbation, popple, racket, rattle, riot, ruffle, rush, shake, state, tempest, to-do, tremor, trepidation, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, upheaval). (various references) salseo, desplazamiento oscilatorio de líquidos, bazuqueo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"SLOSHING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scooshing, shooshing, slothing, slushing, sploshing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SLOSHING" (pronounced slÄ"shing) |
| 4 | -Ä" sh i ng | squashing, washing. |
| 3 | -sh i ng | abolishing, accomplishing, admonishing, ambushing, anguishing, astonishing, banishing, bashing, blushing, brainwashing, brandishing, brushing, cashing, clashing, crashing, crushing, dashing, demolishing, diminishing, dishing, distinguishing, embellishing, establishing, extinguishing, finishing, fishing, flashing, flourishing, flushing, furbishing, furnishing, gnashing, gushing, hashing, languishing, lashing, lavishing, meshing, nourishing, onrushing, overfishing, photofinishing, polishing, publishing, punishing, pushing, quashing, ravishing, reestablishing, refinishing, refreshing, refurbishing, rehashing, relinquishing, relishing, replenishing, rushing, skirmishing, slashing, smashing, splashing, stashing, tarnishing, thrashing, trashing, unleashing, vanishing, wishing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-i-l-n-o-s-s" | |
-1 letter: longish, losings. | |
-2 letters: gnosis, holing, hosing, losing, siglos, slings, soling. | |
-3 letters: gloss, hongs, lingo, lings, linos, lions, loins, longs, nighs, noils, ohing, shins, shogs, sighs, signs, silos, sings, sinhs, sling, slogs, slosh, snogs, soils, songs. | |
-4 letters: ghis, gins, gosh, hins, hisn, hiss, hogs, hols, hong, hons, ions, ling, lino, lins, lion, logs, loin, long. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-i-l-n-o-s-s" | |
+1 letter: longships, slingshot, sploshing. | |
+2 letters: schoolings, slingshots. | |
+3 letters: ghostliness, phlogistons. | |
+4 letters: anthologists, ethnologists, ghoulishness, hooliganisms, longshorings, phonologists. | |
+5 letters: astonishingly, chronologists, conchologists, ghostlinesses, hospitalising, lightsomeness, locksmithings, nephrologists, phrenologists, slaveholdings, smallholdings, technologists. | |
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