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Definition: Striking |
StrikingAdjective1. Sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect; "a dramatic sunset"; "a dramatic pause"; "a spectacular display of northern lights"; "it was a spectacular play"; "his striking good looks always created a sensation". 2. Having a quality that thrusts itself into attention; "an outstanding fact of our time is that nations poisoned by anti semitism proved less fortunate in regard to their own freedom"; "a new theory is the most prominent feature of the book"; "salient traits"; "a spectacular rise in prices"; "a striking thing about Picadilly Circus is the statue of Eros in the center"; "a striking resemblance between parent and child". Noun1. The physical coming together of two or more things; "contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull". 2. A act of hitting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "striking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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Building & Civil Engineering | The operation of removing temporary supports or formwork from a structure. Source: European Union. (references) |
Chemistry | The deposition of a strike. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | L. the productionof roots by cuttings. 2. the pro cess of inducino cuttings to produce roots. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Electrodepositing, under special conditions, a very thin film of metal that will facilitate further plating with another metal or with the samemetal under different conditions. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A strike is an unarmed attack with hand, arm or elbow in order to cause harm to an opponent. An attack with the hand closed into a fist is often called a punch. A strike with a foot or leg is called a kick. Punches are usually a bit weaker than kicks, but faster to deliver.
Strikes are employed in many martial arts, notably boxing and muay thai. Few martial arts employ no strikes at all, wrestling is one of them. In most arts, strikes are complemented by kicks and grappling. Strike is the generic name for a blunt, crushing attack made with or without a weapon. Striking weapons include the club, the mace and the warhammer and is probably the oldest category of weapons known to humans. A strike is a deliberate absence from work. See strike action. A military strike is a limited attack on a specified target. Strikes are used, amongst other things, to render facilities inoperable, to assassinate enemy leaders and to limit supply to enemy troops. An air strike is a military strike made using explosives delivered from an aircraft, often a bomber, ground attack aircraft, or strike fighter. The strike of a geological unit is the compass direction along the plane of the unit where the unit has zero dip. As any surface that is not horizontal will have two such directions, convention states that the direction of strike is taken as anti-clockwise from the dip-direction. In baseball, a strike is a mark against a batter, three of which will cause him to strikeout. See strike (baseball statistics). In bowling, a strike occurs when players knock down all the pins with their first ball of a frame.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Strike."
Synonyms: StrikingSynonyms: dramatic (adj), outstanding (adj), prominent (adj), salient (adj), spectacular (adj), contact (n), hit (n), hitting (n), impinging (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Manifestation | Adjective: manifest, apparent; salient, striking, demonstrative, prominent, in the foreground, notable, pronounced. |
Representation | Image, likeness, icon, portrait, striking likeness, speaking likeness; very image; effigy, facsimile. |
Similarity | Parallel; simile; type; (metaphor); image; (representation); photograph; close resemblance, striking resemblance, speaking resemblance, faithful likeness, faithful resemblance. |
Wonder | Striking; Verb: overwhelming; wonder-working. |
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Crosswords: Striking |
| English words defined with "striking": Striking distance. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "striking": Devil must be Striking ♦ striking hammer, striking plates. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "striking": Strike. (references) |
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Screenplays | Striking story (Gladiator; writing credit: David Franzoni) That name is striking fear in nobody's hearts (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) You were always accompanied by a handsome young man, about 16, bearing a striking resemblance to Tyler Peterson (The Division; writing credit: Guglielmo Enea; Marcello Fois) Don't put yourself down like that! You have a striking resemblance to a eunuch but (Cannonball Run II; writing credit: Harvey Miller; Hal Needham) I feel like striking you. (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang) | |
Tongue Twisters | Six shimmering sharks sharply striking shins. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Striking the King (1964) Sandy Hook Projectile from Ten Inch Disappearing Gun Striking Water (1897) | |
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 | NGC 3132 is a striking example of a planetary nebula. This expanding cloud of gas surrounding ... Credit: NASA. |  | What appears as a bird's head, leaning over to snatch up a tasty meal, is a striking example ... Credit: NASA. |
 | The Parana River delta is a huge forested marshland about 32km northeast of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The area is a very popular tour destination. Guided boat tours can be taken into this vast labyrinth of marsh and trees. The Parana River delta is one of the world's greatest bird-watching destinations. This image highlights the striking contrast between dense forest and wetland marshes, and the deep blue ribbon of the Parana River. Credit: NASA. |  | Surf striking east coast of Eleuthera Island. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | St. Brendan striking out into the Atlantic - about 6th Century A.D. St. Brendan checking depths with his sounding pole. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Figure 7. Bonnici sounder, invented by Carmelo Bonnici, a blacksmith on HMS SPITFIRE. This device was used in surveys in the Black Sea in 1855. Left: descending. Right: Schematic drawing of the apparatus after striking the bottom. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship ISIS. The ISIS was lost a few years later after striking a sunken barge off the coast of Florida. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Translated as a "Comfortable position for the traveller!", obviously a bit of humor. The sailor is passing a line over the pulley to keep it from striking end of the boom during Bouree net towing operations. Plate VIII, print 11. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Striking portrait of a 32 year old California migrant pea picker during the Dust Bowl. Credit: Dorothea Lange. |  | A heavy frost and freeze make a striking scene along a buffer in central Iowa. Credit: Roger Hill. |
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| "Tina" by Jeremy Maritz Commentary: "My wife striking a pose." | "Random 3" by A D Commentary: "Darken and add more contrast: becomes very striking. I would've done it for you, but I'm too lazy." |
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 | Striking the cue ball with the cue stick twice. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Henry David Thoreau | There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. |
Honore De Balzac | Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. |
Oliver Cromwell | Make the iron hot by striking it. |
Samuel Johnson | No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. |
Tryon Edwards | Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | First, How to resist force without striking again, or how to strike with reverence, will need some skill to make intelligible. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | In this way arose Feudal Socialism: half lamentation, half lampoon; half echo of the past, half menace of the future; at times, by its bitter, witty and incisive criticism, striking the bourgeoisie to the very heart's core; but always ludicrous in its effect, through total incapacity to comprehend the march of modern history. (reference) |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | He was not conspicuously tall, his features were striking but not conspicuously handsome |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The half hour after midnight was striking when M. Madeleine left the hall of the Arras Assizes |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He marched towards the group, striking the flags with the heels of his boots and with the ferule of his heavy umbrella |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Al winked rakishly at the girl, and he tripped on, striking his feet to the music and swaying his shoulders and swinging his arms |
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Health | A striking anti-inflammatory effect of IVIG has been observed. (references) | |
Affected newborns generally have striking neurological defects and seizures. (references) | ||
A subset of CFS patients reported a striking improvement in symptoms, but not all patients improved. (references) | ||
Business | The most striking feature of the Ukrainian mobile Communications market is the number of operators. (references) | |
According to the FASA, thirty-six percent of franchisors in South Africa are represented in Africa, with the automobile servicing and leisure franchisors showing most striking expansion in the rest of Africa. (references) | ||
Children | India | There is serious concern regarding the striking disparities in terms of access to education, attendance at primary and secondary levels and drop-out rates between: different states, rural and urban areas, boys and girls, the affluent and the poor, and children belonging to scheduled castes and tribes." Child welfare organizations estimate that there are 500,000 street children nationwide living in abject poverty. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Korea | In the Daewoo incident, dozens of police and striking workers were injured, and two police chiefs subsequently were suspended and transferred. (references) |
Croatia | In October Parliament passed new legislation regulating associations and NGO's, in accordance with a Constitutional Court ruling in 2000 striking down restrictive provisions of the 1997 Law on Associations. (references) | |
Economic History | Uzbekistan | There have been unconfirmed reports of Uzbek workers striking over nonpayment of wages. (references) |
Vietnam | The striking economic progress that marked the 1990s slowed in the last years of the decade. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | Some employers have sought to terminate striking employees taking cover under the Public Securities Act. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bolivia | Security forces then fired shots from the camp striking Ramon Perez, who later died while being evacuated to Chimore. (references) |
Bolivia | On April 24, two civilians were killed following confrontations between security forces and striking transport workers. (references) | |
Philippines | Common forms of abuse during arrest and interrogation included striking detainees with clubs and threatening them with guns. (references) | |
Political Economy | Sudan | The bank management declared the strike illegal and hired new employees to replace the striking workers. (references) |
BULGARIA | The legal prohibition against striking by key public sector employees weakens their bargaining position. (references) | |
GREECE | Employers are not permitted to lock out workers, or to replace striking workers (public sector employees under civil mobilization may be replaced on a temporary basis). (references) | |
Travel | Albania | All gatherings or large crowds should be avoided particularly those involving political causes or striking workers. (references) |
Women | Jordan | Wife- battering technically is grounds for divorce, but a husband may seek to demonstrate that he has authority from the Koran to correct an irreligious or disobedient wife by striking her. (references) |
Worker Rights | Zimbabwe | The majority of the striking teachers reported to work after the threats. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors. The contemporaries of Homer were striking examples of degeneracy; it required ten of them to raise a rock or a riot that one of the heroes of the Trojan war could have raised with ease. Homer never tires of sneering at "men who live in these degenerate days," which is perhaps why they suffered him to beg his bread -- a marked instance of returning good for evil, by the way, for if they had forbidden him he would certainly have starved. |
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Rush Limbaugh | Meanwhile, doctors in West Virginia and Pennsylvania have to talk about striking because they can't afford their malpractice insurance to protect them from guys like Edwards who make money by suing whether the case has merit or not. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | In the arrangement to which the possibility of a similar contingency will naturally draw your attention it ought not to be forgotten that the militia laws have exhibited such striking defects as could not have been supplied by the zeal of our citizens. |
Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | The striking incidents of your history, replete with instruction and furnishing abundant grounds for hopeful confidence, are comprised in a period comparatively brief. |
James Buchanan | 1857-1861 | Our own country could alone have exhibited so grand and striking a spectacle of the capacity of man for self-government. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | You know, I had Mayors, the leading mayors from the League of Cities, in the other day at the White House, and they told me something striking. |
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| "Striking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 59.60% of the time. "Striking" is used about 1,644 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) | 59.6% | 980 | 7,467 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 38.76% | 637 | 10,219 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.03% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.55% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (common) | 0.06% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,644 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "striking". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Parnach | N/A | Biblical | A bull striking |
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Expressions using "striking": carrier striking force ♦ striking a balance between two railways ♦ striking blind ♦ striking clock ♦ striking distance ♦ striking feature ♦ striking force ♦ striking mechanism ♦ striking of a note ♦ striking of a spark ♦ striking of an arc ♦ striking off ♦ striking pin ♦ striking plate ♦ striking power ♦ striking price ♦ striking resemblance ♦ striking roots ♦ without striking a blow. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "striking": striking-looking, striking-out, striking-surface, striking-train. | |
Ending with "striking": down-striking. | |
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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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
striking | 37 | striking wrench | 3 |
striking distance | 10 | picture snake striking | 3 |
distance in striking | 6 | balance striking | 2 |
lightning striking again | 6 | striking ball | 2 |
boost chance it rich striking | 5 | in silence striking | 2 |
lightning striking tree | 4 | striking pose | 2 |
snake striking | 4 | striking tool | 2 |
striking point | 3 | lightning striking | 2 |
picture rattle snake striking | 3 | again lightning lyrics striking | 2 |
striking viking | 3 | striking resemblance | 2 |
ball golf striking | 3 | back striking stroke | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "striking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | prerje (cut, cutting, excision, felling, gash, incision, jump, kerf, mintage, scission, shearing, slash, slit, snip, tapping), i mrekullueshëm (divine, dreamy, elegant, excellent, fabulous, goluptious, goodly, gorgeous, heavenly, killing, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, nailing, nifty, peachy, prodigious, rare, ravishing, remarkable, slapping, spanking, superior, transcendent, unusual, wonderful, wondrous), i habitshëm (amazing, astonishing, fabulous, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, oddish, portentous, strange, unusual, wonderful), goditës (striker). (various references) | |
Arabic | مضرب عن العمل, مضرب (driver, drumstick, on, paddle, stick, striker), مدهش (agape, amazing, astonishing, astounding, awesome, baffling, dandy, dumbfounding, marvellous, marvelous, out of this world, phenomenal, prodigious, ripping, staggering, startling, stunning, surprising, topping, trembling, wonder, wonderful, wondrous), لافت للنظر (arresting, attracting attention, emphatic, insistent, noticeable, remarkable, remarkably), قذف (accuse of, aspersion, calumniate, cast, casting, charge with, defamation, defame, discharge, disgorge, ejaculation, eject, ejectment, emit, expel, extrude, extrusion, fling, libel, malediction, malign, mud, mudslinging, obloquy, pelt, pelt with, pitch, projection, puke, row, scandal, slander, speak evil of, strike with, throw, throw out, throwing, toss, vilify, vituperate, vomit), قرع (bang, banging, beat, beating, chide, drum, hitting, knock, knocking, rap, rapping, ring, sound, tap, toll), ضارب (gamble, manipulate, plunge), الضارب (bat, beating), أخاذ للنظر, بارز (beetle, conspicuous, distinct, distinguished, duel, eminent, featured, fence, great, in the first flight, lofty, memorable, monumental, noble, notable, noticeable, outstanding, pointed, profile, prognathous, projecting, prominent, protruding, protuberant, remarkable, salient, signal, uncommon). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | удрящ, ударен (percussive, pulsatile, shock, strong), удивителен (amazing, astonishing, astounding, dizzy, exclamatory, extraordinary, fantastic, fantastical, marvellous, marvelous, prodigious, remarkable, stupendous, surprising, wonderful), атакуващ (attacker), биещ, поразителен (amazing, astounding, electric, overwhelming, snorting, spanking, super). (various references) | |
Chinese | 触击 (stricken, struck), 引人注目 . (various references) | |
Czech | stávkující (striker), pozoruhodný (extraordinary, impressive, notable, noteworthy, noticeable, portentous, remarkable, signal, singular, spectacular, uncommon), překvapující (astonishing, startling, strange, surprising), nápadný (conspicuous, garish, gaudy, glaring, jazzy, loud, noticeable, ostentatious, outstanding, prominent, remarkable, showy, spectacular, sporty), markantní. (various references) | |
Danish | rodslagning (radiculation, rooting, taking root), påfaldende, grunde (prime), anloebning (fade, fogging, stain, staining, tarnishing, warming-in, weathering), afforskalling (form removal, removal of formwork, stripping). (various references) | |
Dutch | snedig (lively, witty), raak (go), juist (accurate, correct, exact, exactly, just, just now, okay, precise, proper, right, sharp, true), geprononceerd. (various references) | |
Esperanto | trafa. (various references) | |
Finnish | silmäänpistävä (conspicuous), pistokkaan juurtuminen (rooting), osua (hit, strike), muottien poisto (form removal, removal of formwork, stripping), kehittäminen lämmittämällä (warming-in), huomiotaherättävä (conspicuous, sensational), esipinnoitus. (various references) | |
French | saisissant (startling), amorçage, amorçage d'un arc, assénant, décintrement, décoffrage (stripping), allumage d'un arc, en grève, tapageur, ferrage (strike), frappant (strong), frappe (stamp, strike), gréviste (striker), développement de la couleur. (various references) | |
German | auffallend (colorful, colourful, conspicuous, conspicuously, flamboyantly, flaring, garishly, near, notable, notably, noticeable, outstanding, prominent, pronounced, remarkable, showy, stagily, stagy, strikingly). (various references) | |
Greek | καταπληκτικόσ (amazing, astounding, prodigious, startling, stunning, stupendous, tremendous), κτυπητόσ, ριζοβόλημα (root penetration, rooting, rooting through), πιάσιμο (bite, fastening, grapple, grasp, grip, hold), χτυπητός, χτυπητήρι (beater, whisk), εκκίνηση (departure, start, starting), εκπληκτικόσ (astonishing, surprising, wondrous), απεργία (strike, walkout), αποσύνδεσις (disintegration, form removal, removal of formwork, stripping), αφαίρεσις τύπων (form removal, removal of formwork, stripping). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מכה (blow, bump, cut, defeat, hit, knock, plague, smash, stroke, swat), מרשים (effective, grandiose, impressive, stately), חבטה (bang, beating, flap, pound, swat, thrashing, thwack), הלימה (beating, hitting, pulsation), הלקאה (beating, flagellation, flogging, stripe, thrashing, whipping), הכשה (bite of snake, stinging), הכאה (beating). (various references) | |
Hungarian | meglepõ (amazing, surprising, wondrous), csapás (adversity, affliction, attack, bane, calamity, chop, clash, dent, disaster, follow-up attack, hack, hit, ills, misfortune, plague, raid, runway, slap, sorrow, strike, stroke, thrust, track, tribulation, whack), ütõ (bat, thumping), ütés (bang, bash, beat, blow, bump, bust, clap, clash, clashing, clinker, clout, cut, dent, hit, jab, jolt, kick, knock, knocking, percussion, prod, punch, slap, slosh, snick, spank, strike, stroke, swipe, thump, thwack, to come to bat, whack, wham). (various references) | |
Icelandic | áberandi. (various references) | |
Indonesian | mencolok (flashy, glaring), kentara (clear, conspicuous, obvious, visible), berandang. (various references) | |
Italian | sviluppo della colorazione per trattamento termico (warming-in), suggestivo (evocative, suggestive), impressionante (impressive, lurid, shocking), disarmo (disarmament, disarment), attivazione (activation), appariscente (blatant, showy, trumpery). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 顕著 (obvious, remarkable), 奇抜 (eccentric, fantastic, novel, original, strange). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きばつ (eccentric, fantastic, novel, original, strange), ふるった (different, eccentric, extraordinary, original), めざましい (brilliant, remarkable, splendid), けんちょ (obvious, remarkable). (various references) | |
Korean | 침 (Cuffing, knocking, saliva, salivary, stroking). (various references) | |
Manx | screebey (abrade, abrasion, chafe, claw, dress, friction, grate, graze, itch, rasp, scrape, scrape along, scraping, scratch, scrawl, scuffle, stridulate), lhieggey (bowl over, cataract, chop down, demolish, dismount, downfall, drop, fall, fall down, fell, fire, hew, overbalance, overflow, pick off, pull down, run over, spill, strike, throw, topple, tumble, weigh down), labbal (banging, bash, buffeting, clout, clouting, cuff, hit, hitting, knock, strike, thump, thumping). (various references) | |
Norwegian | påfallende. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ikingstray.(various references) | |
Polish | trafny. (various references) | |
Portuguese | surpreendente (amazing, astonishing, startling, strange, surprising, wondrous), que toca ou bate, notável (considerable, conspicuous, curious, distinguish, distinguished, extraordinary, interesting, notable, noted, noteworthy, noticeable, observable, pre-eminent, quaint, remarkable, salient, shining, singular, telling, uncommon), justo (acceptable, adequate, clinging, close, correct, due, even, exact, fair, fit, good, home, honest, just, justifiable, reasonable, righteous, rightful, right-minded, straight, tight, true, uprightly), iniciação de banho primário, impressionante (awful, impressive, spectacular), golpear (bang, biff, bob, bust, clap, club, ding, dint, hack, hit, knock, slash, strike), enraizamento de uma estaca (rooting), desenvolvimento da cor por tratamento térmico (warming-in), descofragem (form removal, removal of formwork, stripping), decisivo (closing, conclusive, crucial, decisive, definitive, determinative, final, forthright, incisive, peremptory, winning), atraente (appealing, attractable, attractive, bewitching, captivating, catch, charming, cute, dinky, engaging, enthralling, enticing, fetching, ingratiating, interesting, inviting, lovely, magnetic, nice, nice-looking, pinup, prepossessing, pretty, sexy, stunner, taking, tempting, winning, winsome, yummy), admirável (admirable, good, marvellous, marvelous, surprising, wonderful), acertado. (various references) | |
Romanian | uimitor (amazing, astonishing, marvellous, prodigious, startling, stupendous, surprising), lovire (bastinado, clash, impact, jar, percussion), izbitor (arresting, conspicuous, effective, salient, singular, staring), grevist (striker), frapant (conspicuousness, salient, surprising), extraordinar (amazing, arch, astonishing, egregious, enormous, exceedingly, extra, extraordinary, extremely, fierce, marvellous, noble, out, phenomenal, phenomenally, prodigious, proud, rare, rattling, remarkable, special, terrible, tremendous, uncommon, undreamed of, unimaginable, up to the nines, well, well I never, wonderful), bãtãtor (batler, batlet, beater, club, evident, gaudy, glaring, glowing, picker). (various references) | |
Russian | ударный (percussional, percussive, pulsatile), распалубка (stripping), разительный, нажимать;нажатие;поразител-ый, броский (psychedelic, snazzy, splashy), поразительный (amazing, astounding, breathtaking, breath-taking, earth-shattering, startling, surprising). (various references) | |
Scottish | beum (a stroke, blow, cut, reproach; ring by striking, stroke, taunt). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | upečatljiv (impressible, impressionable, impressive, penetrative), upadljiv (broad, conspicuous, marked, noticeable, prominent, showy, tacky), udaranje (impingement, percussion, punching), napadanje, frapantan, štrajkovanje. (various references) | |
Spanish | llamativo (aggressive, arresting, blatant, catchpenny, effective, flamboyant, garish, gaudy, jazzy, obtrusive, screaming, showy, staring, startling). (various references) | |
Swedish | påfallande (obtrusive, remarkable), slående (arresting, beater, beating, catchy, eye-catching, percussive, strikingly), apart (remarkable). (various references) | |
Turkish | vuran, grevdeki, grev yapan, göz alıcı (attractive, eye-catching, flamboyant, glamorous, glittering, grandiose, jazzy, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, screaming, spectacular, splendiferous, staring), dikkat çekici (arresting, conspicuous, egregious, eye-catching, marked, remarkable, salient, signal, spectacular, well-marked), şaşırtıcı (amazing, astonishing, astounding, baffling, bewildering, colossal, confused, confusing, dazzling, incredible, intriguing, mind-bending, perplexing, puzzling, rum, spectacular, staggering, startling, surprising, twisty), çarpan (factor, heady, multiplier), çarpıcı (blazing, conspicuous, devastating, dramatic, flashy, intense, salient, showy, stunning). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ударний (percussive, pulsatile), дивовижний (amazing, electrical, extraordinary, heavenly, marvellous, marvelous, outlandish, portentous, prodigious, remarkable, stupendous, surprising, wonderful). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nổi bật (limelight, outstanding), gây ấn tượng sâu sắc (dramatic, impressive), đập vào mắt (staring). (various references) | |
Welsh | trawiadol. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | chusi, commoventes, conspectis, conspecto, conspectum, conspectus, conspicuus, cudebat, cusi, offensio, praeclarus. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | jaiñti, paityârem, snathâi. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "striking": strikingly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "striking": misstriking, overstriking, restriking, thunderstriking. (additional references) | |
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"Striking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ostrakon, sticing, strecking, strikeing, strikking, strinking, strking. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "striking" (pronounced strī"king) |
| 4 | -ī" k i ng | biking, disliking, hiking, liking, spiking, viking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | antismoking, aching, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: skirting. | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-i-k-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: griskin, risking, skiting. | |
-2 letters: irking, kiting, rising, siring, siting, skiing, string, tiring, tsking. | |
-3 letters: ginks, girns, girts, grins, grist, grits, intis, iring, kings, kirns, knits, rings, rinks, skint, skirt, sting, stink, stirk, tikis, tings, trigs. | |
-4 letters: gink, gins, girn, girt, gist, gits, grin, grit, inks, inti, iris, irks, king, kins, kirn, kirs, kist, kits. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-i-k-n-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: skirtings. | |
+2 letters: restriking, skittering, skywriting, strickling, strikingly, turfskiing. | |
+3 letters: asterisking, misstriking, skywritings, turfskiings, waterskiing. | |
+4 letters: kickstarting, overstriking, printmakings, sidetracking, waterskiings. | |
+5 letters: freethinkings, interworkings. | |
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