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Definition: Spiraling |
SpiralingAdjective1. In the shape of a coil. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spiraling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1916. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. Rifling b. A drill hole twisting into a spiral around its intended centerlin. (references) |
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Synonyms: SpiralingSynonyms: coiling (adj), helical (adj), spiral (adj), turbinate (adj), volute (adj), voluted (adj), whorled (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Spiraling |
| English words defined with "spiraling": anticyclone ♦ curly grass, curly grass fern ♦ dextrorsal, dextrorse ♦ European ladies' tresses ♦ hooded ladies' tresses ♦ rattlesnake orchid ♦ Schizaea pusilla, screw augur, sinistrorsal, sinistrorse, Spiranthes cernua, Spiranthes romanzoffiana, Spiranthes spiralis. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A large spiraling cloud system as seen by TIROS VI. In: "TIROS A Story of Achievement" RCA, February 28, 1964, Figure 12a. Credit: NOAA in Space. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Laos | However, the Asian financial crisis, coupled with the Lao Government's own mismanagement of the economy, resulted in spiraling inflation and a steep depreciation of the kip, which lost 87% of its value from June 1997 to June 1999. Tighter monetary policies brought about greater macroeconomic stability in FY 2000,dropped to less than 1% per month.. The economy continues to be dominated by an unproductive agricultural sector operating largely outside the money economy and in which the public sector continues to play a dominant role. (references) |
Worker Rights | Zimbabwe | However, in almost all cases, wage increases did not keep pace with inflation, the spiraling exchange rate, and the increases in the prices of petroleum products and basic food staples. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | The spiraling pace of change allows us to contemplate, within our own lifetime, advances that once would have taken centuries. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | A decade of rampant inflation drained its reserves as we tried to protect beneficiaries from the spiraling cost of living. |
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| "Spiraling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Spiraling" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "spiraling": coiling helical spiral spiraling volute voluted whorled. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
spiraling | 35 |
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| Language | Translations for "spiraling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 成螺旋形. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | partikel i spiralformet bane (spiraling particle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | spiraliserend deeltje (spiraling particle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | particule décrivant une trajectoire spirale (spiraling particle), champ magnétique hélicoïdal (spiraling magnetic field). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schraubend (screwing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | particella animata di moto a spirale (spiraling particle), campo magnetico a spirale (spiraling magnetic field). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 나 형을 그림. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iralingspay закручивать в спираль (spiraled, spiralled, spiralling). (various references) campo magnético que gira (spiraling magnetic field). (various references) partikel i spiralformad bana (spiraling particle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Spiraling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: psoralen, psoralens, spiralina, spiralling, Spratling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "spiraling" (pronounced spī"ruling) |
| 8 | s p ī" r u l i ng | spiralling. |
| 5 | -r u l i ng | barreling, imperiling, quarreling. |
| 4 | -u l i ng | ambling, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, battling, belittling, bicycling, boggling, bottling, bristling, bubbling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, bustling, cackling, canceling, cancelling, channeling, chortling, circling, coddling, commingling, counseling, cradling, crippling, crumbling, cycling, dabbling, dangling, dazzling, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, doubling, dribbling, drizzling, dwindling, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, entitling, equaling, fizzling, fondling, fumbling, funneling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, groveling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hassling, hobbling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hustling, idling, initialing, intermingling, jiggling, jostling, juggling, labeling, leveling, mangling, marshaling, meddling, middling, mingling, mislabeling, modeling, mottling, muddling, mumbling, muscling, nibbling, paddling, paneling, parceling, pedaling, peddling, piddling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quibbling, raveling, recycling, redoubling, refueling, remodeling, resembling, reshuffling, reveling, rippling, rivaling, ruffling, rumbling, saddling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, settling, shriveling, shuttling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, squabbling, stapling, stenciling, strangling, struggling, stumbling, swiveling, tabling, throttling, tingling, tinkling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, traveling, travelling, trembling, tripling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twinkling, unraveling, unsettling, waggling, warbling, wiggling, wobbling, wrangling, wrinkling, yodeling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | ailing, angling, annealing, appalling, appealing, assailing, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, beguiling, Belling, billing, blackmailing, boiling, Bolling, bowling, brawling, broiling, buckling, burgling, burling, cajoling, calling, Carling, ceiling, chilling, chronicling, chuckling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, crawling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, darling, dawdling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doling, drilling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, earthling, emailing, enrolling, entailing, entangling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, galling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, growling, hailing, handling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hilling, holing, howling, hurling, hurtling, inhaling, inkling, installing, instilling, jailing, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, Marling, Melling, milling, mishandling, misspelling, mothballing, mulling, nailing, needling, nestling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, peeling, pickling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, quelling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, reeling, regaling, rekindling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruling, rustling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shuffling, sibling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squealing, stalling, starling, startling, stealing, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strickling, stripling, strolling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, thrilling, Tilling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, trailing, trampling, trickling, trifling, trilling, trolling, twiddling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, wailing, walling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiling, willing, wrestling, yearling, yelling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-i-l-n-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: aspiring, graplins, pairings, praising, railings, sparling, springal. | |
-2 letters: airings, arising, aspirin, graplin, lairing, lapsing, lisping, nilgais, pairing, palings, parings, parling, parsing, pilings, prising, railing, raising, rapinis, rasping, sailing, sapling, sliping, sparing, spiling, spiring. | |
-3 letters: ailing, airing, algins, aligns, argils, glairs, gnarls, grails, grains, isling, lapins, lasing, liangs, ligans, lingas, lipins, nilgai, paling, paring. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-i-l-n-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: polarising, spiralling, springtail. | |
+2 letters: espaliering, lipreadings, parasailing, plaistering, springtails. | |
+3 letters: appraisingly, despairingly, earsplitting, gallinippers, parasailings, plagiarising, playwritings, popularising, redisplaying. | |
+4 letters: disparagingly, dispraisingly, hairsplitting, personalising, personalizing, slipstreaming, trampolinings. | |
+5 letters: disapprovingly, hairsplittings, paralinguistic, playwrightings, pregnabilities, spiritualizing. | |
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