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Definition: Stumping |
StumpingNoun1. Campaigning for something by making political speeches (stump speeches). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stumping" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references) |
| "Stumping" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 84.21% of the time. "Stumping" is used about 19 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) | 84.21% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (singular) | 15.79% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | 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 |
stumping | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "stumping"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | stubboring (helical stumping, stump drilling out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stobben rooien d.m.v.een stobbeboor (helical stumping, stump drilling out), uitboren van stobben (helical stumping, stump drilling out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | dessouchage par carottage (helical stumping, stump drilling out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Stubbendurchbohrung (helical stumping, stump drilling out), Stockdurchbohrung (helical stumping, stump drilling out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | εξαγωγή κορμών με τρυπάνι (helical stumping, stump drilling out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | estirpazione di ceppi per trivellazione (helical stumping, stump drilling out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 遊説 (election campaign, election tour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ゆうぜい (covered, election campaign, election tour, harmfulness, lidded, postage, roofed, taxable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | umpingstay decepagem com trado (helical stumping, stump drilling out). (various references) destoconado por perforación (helical stumping, stump drilling out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Stumping" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: siu-ming, stompen, sumoing, sumping. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stumping" (pronounced stu"mping) |
| 5 | -u" m p i ng | antidumping, bumping, clumping, dumping, jumping, lumping, pumping, slumping, thumping. |
| 4 | -m p i ng | camping, chomping, clamping, cramping, crimping, damping, lamping, limping, pimping, ramping, revamping, romping, scrimping, skimping, stamping, stomping, swamping, tamping, tramping. |
| 3 | -p i ng | aping, backslapping, beeping, bleeping, bookkeeping, burping, capping, carping, Chipping, chirping, chopping, clapping, clipping, coping, copping, creeping, cropping, developing, dipping, draping, dripping, drooping, dropping, eavesdropping, enveloping, equipping, escaping, flapping, flipping, flopping, galloping, gaping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, griping, gripping, groping, grouping, gulping, handicapping, harping, heaping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, hyping, keeping, kidnaping, kidnapping, landscaping, lapping, leaping, lopping, mapping, moping, mopping, napping, nipping, outstripping, overlapping, overstepping, peacekeeping, peeping, piping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, raping, rapping, reaping, recapping, recouping, regrouping, reshaping, ripping, roping, safekeeping, sapping, scalping, scooping, scoping, scraping, scrapping, seeping, shaping, shipping, shopping, sidestepping, sipping, skipping, slapping, sleeping, slipping, sloping, snapping, sniping, snooping, sopping, stepping, stereotyping, stooping, stopping, strapping, stripping, swapping, sweeping, swiping, swooping, taping, tapping, tipping, topping, trapping, tripping, trooping, typing, unwrapping, upping, usurping, videotaping, walloping, Wapping, warping, weeping, whipping, whooping, whopping, wiping, Wiretapping, worshipping, wrapping, zapping, zipping. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-m-n-p-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: impugns, musting, pignuts, spuming, tumping. | |
-2 letters: impugn, inputs, musing, muting, pignus, pignut, spuing, umping. | |
-3 letters: gimps, input, mints, minus, munis, pings, pints, pungs, punts, situp, sting, stump, stung, suing, suint, tings, tumps, tungs, units, using. | |
-4 letters: gimp, gins, gips, gist, gits, gnus, gums, guns, gust, guts, imps, migs, mint, mist, mugs, muni, muns, must. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-m-n-p-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: gumptions. | |
+4 letters: impetiginous, miscomputing, outpromising. | |
+5 letters: compurgations, computerising, mousetrapping, promulgations, suboptimizing, supplementing. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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