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Date "STREAMLINING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | This involves the placing of fairing around or over obstructions to airflow, in such a way as to change that flow from turbulent to laminar. (references) |
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Crosswords: STREAMLINING |
| Specialty definitions using "STREAMLINING": Field service center. (references) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Square noses, round noses, rusty noses, shovel noses, and the long curves of streamlines, and the flat surfaces before streamlining. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | China's port handling industry has taken center stage in the growth and streamlining of China's economy. (references) | |
Under the streamlining of the sector, obras sociales will be required to have at least 10,000 members to be able to operate. (references) | ||
The DPA has since contributed to the modernization of military equipment used by Korean armed forces and strengthened the nation's national defense potential by streamlining the process of acquiring war material. (references) | ||
Children | Lithuania | During the year, the ombudsman called for streamlining the children's rights protection system and mobilizing central government and local authorities to cope with growing juvenile delinquency and spreading drug addiction. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Hungary | In October Parliament passed amendments to the Laws on Asylum and on Aliens, aimed at streamlining and simplifying the court process for asylum; the amendment is to take effect in 2002. The HHC expressed regrets that the amendment to the Aliens Act lacked provisions that would take into consideration the family ties in Hungary of those deported. (references) |
Economic History | Austria | The government is also in the process of simplifying and streamlining the social welfare system. (references) |
Human Rights | Bahamas | To reduce the backlog, the Government continued the process of streamlining appeals, computerizing court records, and hiring new judges, magistrates, and court reporters. (references) |
Croatia | The law was designed to depoliticize the positions while streamlining administrative oversight; however, it has been criticized by some observers as giving too much control over judicial appointments to the Justice Ministry. (references) | |
Political Economy | THAILAND | Customs officials have been receptive to training programs offered by the U.S. private sector on streamlining customs procedures and implementing "best practices" to improve performance. (references) |
Trade | Morocco | In parallel, it is streamlining the regime for temporary admissions, which allows exporters to import inputs free of duty. (references) |
Korea | Amendment of the relevant laws and regulations was completed in 2000. Streamlining efforts on import certification continues through amendment of the Export and Import Notice. (references) | |
Kenya | The GOK has also embarked on a program of streamlining Customs operations, with the intent of making it more user-friendly and more consistent with a liberalized economy while maximizing revenue collection. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "STREAMLINING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 60.42% of the time. "STREAMLINING" is used about 48 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) | 60.42% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Noun (singular) | 31.25% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 8.33% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 48 | 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 |
streamlining | 13 |
airtech streamlining | 8 |
mortgage streamlining | 8 |
fha streamlining | 5 |
acquisition act federal streamlining | 5 |
streamlining va | 2 |
loan streamlining va | 2 |
design streamlining | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "STREAMLINING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | stroemliniebeklaedning (fairing, shroud). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stroomlijnen (fairing, shroud). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | carénage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Stromlinienverkleidung (fairing, shroud), stromlinienform (streamlined body, streamlined design), rationalisierung (rationalization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αεροδυναμική μορφή (fairing, shroud). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | carenatura (cowl, cowling, fairing, nose cone, shroud). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | スリ 化 (thinning, thriller). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | スリ か (thinning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eamliningstray carenado (aerodynamic, faired, fairing, shroud, streamlined). (various references) aerodinamičnost. (various references) revestimiento aerodinámico (fairing, shroud), carenado (duct, fairing, masking, nose cone, shroud). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "STREAMLINING" (pronounced strē"mlī'ning) |
| 5 | -l ī' n i ng | headlining, outlining, redlining, underlining. |
| 4 | -ī' n i ng | intertwining, undermining. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abandoning, abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, apportioning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, twining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-i-l-m-n-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: misaltering, mislearning, misrelating, trigeminals. | |
-2 letters: alignments, alimenting, metalising, resinating, retailings, signalment, smartening, triennials, trigeminal. | |
-3 letters: alignment, arginines, emigrants, enlisting, entailing, gainliest, gannister, gantlines, glairiest, gnarliest, grainiest, grantsmen, imaginers, inserting, integrals, internals, lamenting, learnings, ligaments, liniments, listening, mainlines, maligners, malingers, mannerist, mantlings, mastering, migraines, miseating, mislearnt, misrating, realising, relisting, remailing, remaining, reminting, renailing, resailing. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-i-l-m-n-n-r-s-t" | |
+3 letters: mongrelizations. | |
+4 letters: maladministering. | |
+5 letters: congregationalism, immunoregulations. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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