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Definition: Soughing |
SoughingAdjective1. Characterized by soft sounds; "a murmurous brook"; "a soughing wind in the pines"; "a slow sad susurrous rustle like the wind fingering the pines"- R.P.Warren. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "soughing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references) |
Synonyms: SoughingSynonyms: murmurous (adj), rustling (adj), susurrous (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Soughing |
| English words defined with "soughing": murmurous ♦ rustling ♦ susurrous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "soughing": Wind. (references) |
| "Soughing" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 54.55% of the time. "Soughing" is used about 11 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 54.55% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 45.45% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "soughing": the-soughing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "soughing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 飀 (soughing of wind). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | rauschend. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | oughingsay шуршать шуршание. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Soughing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: boughing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-g-h-i-n-o-s-u" | |
-1 letter: gushing, housing, sughing. | |
-2 letters: goings, hosing, shogun. | |
-3 letters: going, gongs, hoggs, hongs, nighs, noggs, ohing, sough, suing, using. | |
-4 letters: ghis, gigs, gins, gnus, gong, gosh, guns, gush, hins, hisn, hogg, hogs, hong, hons, hugs, hung, huns, ions, nigh, nogg, nogs, nosh, nous, onus, shin, shog, shun, sigh, sign, sing, sinh, snog, snug, song, sugh. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-g-h-i-n-o-s-u" | |
+1 letter: sloughing. | |
+2 letters: gumshoeing. | |
+3 letters: shotgunning. | |
+4 letters: churchgoings, roughcasting, roughhousing. | |
+5 letters: laughingstock, overslaughing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 75 67 68 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- ..- --. .... .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01110101 01100111 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o u g h i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 0075 0067 0068 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5381877374758073 |
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