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Definition: Socializing |
SocializingNoun1. The act of meeting for social purposes; "there was too much socialization with the enlisted men". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: SocializingSynonyms: socialisation (n), socialization (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Socializing |
| English words defined with "socializing": country club. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | This socializing thing is brutal. (Angel; writing credit: Letcia Dornelles) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | People socializing at Bemus Point, Chautauqua, New York. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Two contact sheets showing men socializing, playing cards (gambling) at a community recreational facility, children swinging indoors at recreational facility, and adults in a thrift(?) shop possibly on an upper floor of same facility, after leaving they w. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Laughing; good time; recreation; socializing; social. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The most basic daily routines may be affected from socializing with friends and enjoying normal and congenial relationships with family members to earning a living and taking care of a home. Faced with a very different life, people need encouragement to remain as active and involved as possible. (references) | |
Business | While socializing is important, the preliminary introduction will be the first opportunity to create a more amiable environment. (references) | |
Travel | Bahrain | Visiting business professionals should be prepared to spend a portion of any business call socializing and getting to know their counterparts. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. |
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| "Socializing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Socializing" 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) | 83.33% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (singular) | 10% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
difficulty socializing | 29 |
socializing | 15 |
dog socializing | 9 |
puppy socializing | 3 |
kitten socializing | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "socializing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 社会化 (socialisation, socialization, socialize, socialized). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | socialisering (socialization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | socialisatie (nationalization, socialization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sosialisointi (socialization), sosialisoiminen (socialization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | socialisation (socialization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sozialisierung (nationalization, socialization), Vergesellschaftung (collectivisation, collectivization, socialization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοινωνικοποίηση (socialization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | socializzazione (nationalization, socialization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 付き合い (association, fellowship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | つきあい (association, fellowship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 교 (intercourse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ocializingsay socialização (nationalization, socialization). (various references) обобществлять обобществление обобществленный. (various references) socialización (socialization). (various references) socialisering (socialization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "socializing": resocializing. (additional references) | |
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"Socializing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: socialising. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "socializing" (pronounced sō"shulī'zing) |
| 7 | -sh u l ī' z i ng | commercializing, specializing. |
| 6 | -u l ī' z i ng | analyzing, brutalizing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, centralizing, criminalizing, crystallizing, decentralizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, destabilizing, editorializing, equalizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, formalizing, generalizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, industrializing, legalizing, liberalizing, marginalizing, materializing, mobilizing, monopolizing, moralizing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, paralyzing, penalizing, personalizing, rationalizing, recapitalizing, revitalizing, stabilizing, sterilizing, symbolizing, tantalizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, visualizing. |
| 5 | -l ī' z i ng | realizing. |
| 4 | -ī' z i ng | advertising, aggrandizing, amortizing, antagonizing, apologizing, appetizing, authorizing, categorizing, characterizing, colorizing, compromising, computerizing, criticizing, customizing, deemphasizing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, desensitizing, digitizing, downsizing, dramatizing, economizing, emphasizing, energizing, enterprising, exercising, fantasizing, fraternizing, galvanizing, harmonizing, humanizing, immunizing, improvising, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legitimizing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, modernizing, organizing, oxidizing, patronizing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, prioritizing, privatizing, proselytizing, publicizing, reauthorizing, recognizing, reorganizing, revolutionizing, romanticizing, sanitizing, satirizing, scrutinizing, securitizing, standardizing, stigmatizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, sympathizing, synthesizing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, unappetizing, unionizing, womanizing. |
| 3 | -z i ng | abusing, accusing, advising, agonizing, amazing, amusing, appeasing, appraising, arising, arousing, blazing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, bulldozing, buzzing, carousing, causing, chastising, choosing, cleansing, closing, composing, comprising, confusing, cruising, decomposing, decriminalizing, defusing, devising, diffusing, disclosing, disguising, disposing, dozing, easing, enclosing, espousing, excusing, exposing, foreclosing, franchising, freezing, fusing, gazing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, hazing, hosing, housing, immortalizing, imposing, infusing, institutionalizing, losing, misusing, musing, nosing, oozing, opposing, overgrazing, overusing, paraphrasing, pausing, perusing, phasing, phrasing, pleasing, posing, praising, predisposing, proposing, quizzing, raising, razing, recusing, refusing, reimposing, reusing, revising, rising, Rosing, schmoozing, seizing, sensationalizing, sizing, sneezing, snoozing, squeezing, strategizing, supposing, surprising, teasing, uncompromising, unsurprising, uprising, using, victimizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-i-i-l-n-o-s-z" | |
-2 letters: gasolinic, laicising, laicizing, logicians. | |
-3 letters: liaising, logician, solacing. | |
-4 letters: alnicos, closing, coaling, coiling, incisal, lacings, liaison, nilgais, oilcans, sailing, salicin, scaling, silicon, siloing, slicing, soiling. | |
-5 letters: agonic, ailing, aiolis, algins, aligns, alnico, aloins, anisic, azlons, azonic, casing, casini, casino, clangs, clings, coigns, colins, colzas, congas, congii, cosign, gascon, glacis, icings, incogs, ionics, isling, lacing. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-i-i-l-n-o-s-z" | |
+2 letters: resocializing. | |
+3 letters: anglicizations, gallicizations. | |
+5 letters: overspecializing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 63 69 61 6C 69 7A 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- -.-. .. .- .-.. .. --.. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01100011 01101001 01100001 01101100 01101001 01111010 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o c i a l i z i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 0063 0069 0061 006C 0069 007A 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5381697567787592758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Sounds | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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