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Definition: Soaking |
SoakingAdjective1. Wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "a shirt saturated with perspiration"; "his shoes were sopping (or soaking)"; "the speaker's sodden collar"; "soppy clothes". Adverb1. Extremely; "dripping wet," "soaking wet". Noun1. The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid); "a good soak put life back in the wagon". 2. The act of making something completely wet; "he gave it a good drenching". 3. Washing something by allowing it to soak. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "soaking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Engineering & Technology | Process of complete exposure or immersion of a piece or part with interpenetration of hot fluid. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The immersion of wood in unheated water. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A phase of a heating operation during which metal is maintained at the requisite temperature until the temperature is uniform throughout the mass. (references) |
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Synonyms: SoakingSynonyms: drenched (adj), saturated (adj), soaked (adj), sodden (adj), soppy (adj), dripping (adv), sopping (adv), drenching (n), soak (n), soakage (n), souse (n), sousing (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: overheating (mining, metallurgy). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Moisture | Wringing wet, soaking wet; wet through to the skin; saturated. Verb: |
Swashy, soggy, dabbled; reeking, dripping, soaking,soft, sodden, sloppy, muddy; swampy. (marshy); irriguous. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Movie/TV Titles | Soaking the Clothes (1915) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Steel mill, Massillon, Ohio. Giant red hot ingot being taken out of soaking pit. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Sunbathing dog" by L L Commentary: "Tired dog soaking up the sun." |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A bucketful of soaking clothes stood on a box. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | After soaking two years and then lying high six months it was perfectly sound, though waterlogged past drying |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It acts like a sponge, soaking up fluid from body tissues. (references) | |
Doctors do not advise soaking your feet for long periods, since you may lose protective calluses. (references) | ||
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Ed McMahon | The collar had to be just right. The scarf, you know, everything perfect. So, to have him thrown in there soaking wet, everybody loved it. All the times he nailed me, I was rejoicing when I saw that. |
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| "Soaking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 72.45% of the time. "Soaking" is used about 323 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) | 72.45% | 234 | 19,621 |
| Adverb (general) | 17.03% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.88% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.64% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Total | 100.00% | 323 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "soaking": be soaking wet ♦ phosphorus soaking ♦ resin soaking ♦ soaking pit ♦ soaking pit furnace ♦ soaking up ♦ soaking wet. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "soaking": soaking-up. | |
Ending with "soaking": over-soaking, pre-soaking. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "soaking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | njomje (damp, maceration, moistening, saturation, souse, treatment). (various references) | |
Arabic | بلل (bathe, bedew, dabble, damp, dampness, drench, moisten, moistening, sodden, wet, wetness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | накисване (infusion, maceration, soak, souse, steep, steeping). (various references) | |
Chinese | 浸泡 (retted, Retting, soak, soaked, Steeped, Steeping). (various references) | |
Danish | stoebsaetning (steeping), stoebning (cast, casting, feeding, founding, ladling, steeping), stoeb (steeping), udbloedning (steeping), udblødning i koldt vand, maeskning (steeping), ibloedsaetning, fugtning, dypning (dipping, steeping), desinfektion ved neddypning (dipping, steeping), bloedning (bleed through, bleeding, haemorrhage), bloeden. (various references) | |
Dutch | weken (soak, weeks), uitzoeten, ontzouten (desalination), ontsmetting door onderdompeling (dipping, steeping), onderdompeling in koud water, nagaren (heat soak of the coke, overheating), isotherm doorwarmen, inweken, extra uitgaren (heat soak of the coke, overheating), doorwarmen, dompeling (case, dipping, immersion), desinfectie door onderdompeling (dipping, steeping). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | muti (corn prepared by soaking). (various references) | |
Finnish | ylikuumennus (heat soak of the coke, overheating, superheat), upotus (sinking), päällyslehden kostutus, liotus (dipping, macerating, steeping), liikakuumennus (heat soak of the coke, overheating), kostutus (humidification, moistening, wetting). (various references) | |
French | trempage. (various references) | |
German | verschwitzend, einweichen (macerate, soak, steep, to soak), durchnässend (drenching, sodding). (various references) | |
Greek | βρέξιμο (wetting), να διαποτισθεί σε θερμοκρασία, να διατηρηθεί σε θερμοκρασία, μούσκευμα (saturation), μούσεκμα (drenched), υπερθέρμανσις οπτάνθρακος (heat soak of the coke, overheating), εμβάπτισις εν ψυχρώ, εμβάπτιση (case, immersion), εμποτισμός (grouting by impregnation, impregnation, penetration prime coat, priming, road oiling, telegony), απολύμανση με εμβάπτιση (dipping, steeping), διάβρεξη (saturation), διαβροχή (maceration, saturation, sprinkling, watering, wetting). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שריה (infusion, maceration, saturation, souse, steeping). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csuromvizesen (soaking wet), csuromvizes lesz (to get a soaking), bőrig ázva (soaking wet, sodden to the skin), bőrig ázott (soaking wet, to be soused to the skin, wet to the skin), bőrig ázik (to get a soaking). (various references) | |
Indonesian | perendaman (submersion of something). (various references) | |
Italian | ammollo (soak). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 浸漬 (dipping, immersing). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しんし (dipping, earnestness, gentleman, immersing, parent and child, sincerity). (various references) | |
Korean | 적심 (Steeping). (various references) | |
Manx | sooghey (steep), soo (absorption, blot, blot as paper, exhaust, exhaustion, extract, extraction; goodness of food; berry, extraction; goodness; berry, imbibe, jam, preserve, sap, sip; blotting, soak, soak up, suck, sucking, suction, tipple, tippling), fliugh-vaiht (soaked, sopping wet), fliughit ny hrooid. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oakingsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | têmpera (quenching), recozimento do coque (heat soak of the coke, overheating), pôr de molho num líquido, molha (case, steeping), inmersão a frio, impregnação à temperatura, imersão (dip, plunge, submergence, submersion), imbebição (absorption), humidificaçao das folhas para capa, estabilização térmica do coque (heat soak of the coke, overheating), demolhar, demolha. (various references) | |
Romanian | îmbibare (saturation). (various references) | |
Scottish | drùdhadh (oozing). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | natapanje (drench, maceration), kvašenje (drench, maceration). (various references) | |
Spanish | remojo (steeping, wetting). (various references) | |
Swedish | stöpning (casting), uppblötning, genom- (through, throughout), doppning (dip), desinfektion genom neddoppning (dipping, steeping). (various references) | |
Turkish | su gibi (fast, like water, soaking wet, soppy, sweaty, watery), sırsıklam (dripping wet, soaking wet, watery), sırılsıklam olmak (be soaking wet, get a good sousing, soak), sırılsıklam (dripping, head over heels, like a drowned rat, soaking wet, sodden, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, wet through, wringing, wringing wet), iliklerine kadar ıslanmış (drenched to the skin, soaked to the skin, soaking wet, wet through, wet to the skin). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | томління сталі, намокання, замочування (soak, steep). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "soaking": oversoaking, presoaking, resoaking. (additional references) | |
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"Soaking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: moaking, oaking, osaki, saking, Sakong, Shobaki, soaken, sooking, spaking, stoaking, suking. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "soaking" (pronounced sō"king) |
| 4 | -ō" k i ng | antismoking, broking, choking, cloaking, coking, croaking, evoking, invoking, joking, nonsmoking, poking, provoking, revoking, smoking, stoking, stroking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | aching, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, chucking, clanking, clicking, clucking, cocking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, politicking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, snaking, sneaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, streaking, striking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-k-n-o-s" | |
-1 letter: asking, gaskin, kiangs. | |
-2 letters: agios, agons, askoi, gains, ginks, gonia, ikons, kains, kaons, kiang, kinas, kings, kinos, koans, oinks. | |
-3 letters: agin, agio, agon, ains, akin, anis, gain, gink, gins, goas, ikon, inks, ions, kain, kaon, kina, king, kino, kins, koan, koas, kois, nags, naoi, naos, nogs, oaks, oink, okas, sago, sain, saki, sang. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-k-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: goatskin, skoaling. | |
+2 letters: forsaking, goatskins, kaoliangs, outasking, resoaking. | |
+3 letters: ankylosing, hopsacking, mosaicking, outskating, outtasking, presoaking, sjamboking, snowmaking, stockading. | |
+4 letters: antismoking, bookmakings, glucokinase, homemakings, hopsackings, lovemakings, noisemaking, nonspeaking, outspeaking, oversoaking, overtasking, postmarking, stocktaking, toolmakings. | |
+5 letters: backcrossing, backstopping, forespeaking, glucokinases, moneymakings, moviemakings, noisemakings, outsparkling, packinghouse, pawnbrokings, stocktakings. | |
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