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Definition: Steadying |
SteadyingAdjective1. Causing to become steady; "had a steadying effect on her nerves". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "steadying" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
Crosswords: Steadying |
| English words defined with "steadying": Ballasting ♦ Core print ♦ Funnel stay ♦ grab bar ♦ rest. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "steadying": back rope ♦ Steadicam, steady cam, steadycam. (references) |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | If there is to be a fraternal association of the kind I have described, with all the extra strength and security which both our countries can derive from it, let us make sure that that great fact is known to the world, and that it plays its part in steadying and stabilizing the foundations of peace. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Steadying" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 76.00% of the time. "Steadying" is used about 75 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) | 76% | 57 | 44,859 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 24% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Total | 100.00% | 75 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "steadying": steadying slot. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "steadying"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 稳定 (stabilise, stabilised, stabilising, stability, stabilize, stabilized, stabilizing, stable, steadied). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | instelgroef (steadying slot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | gorge de calage (steadying slot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sicherstellend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σχισμή στερέωσης (steadying slot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tacca di bloccaggio (steadying slot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 견 하게 함. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eadyingstay ranhura de fixação (steadying slot). (various references) уравновешивание (compensation, equilibration). (various references) ranura de blocaje (steadying slot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "steadying": unsteadying. (additional references) | |
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"Steadying" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: steradian. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-n-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: sedating, steading, yeasting. | |
-2 letters: agisted, density, destain, destiny, detains, dingeys, dyeings, easting, eatings, ingates, ingesta, instead, nidgets, sainted, seating, stained, stanged, staying, stygian, teasing. | |
-3 letters: ageist, agents, dainty, dating, deigns, design, detain, digest, dinges, dingey, dyeing, dyings, dynast, easing, eating, gaiety, gained, gainst, gaited, gasted, gayest, giants, ingate, ingest, nidget, sained, sanity, sating. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-i-n-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: designatory, unsteadying. | |
+3 letters: desolatingly, laryngitides. | |
+4 letters: devastatingly, nearsightedly, pharyngitides. | |
+5 letters: deoxygenations, hydrogenations, peptidoglycans. | |
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