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Definition: Surging |
SurgingAdjective1. Characterized by great swelling waves or surges; "billowy storm clouds"; "the restless billowing sea"; "surging waves". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "surging" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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Chemical Industry | The rush of foam or boiling-liquid preservative under vacuum from the treating cylinder to the condenser. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The fore and aft oscillatory movement of a vessel superposed on its mean forward motion. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | The flapping of a moving rope. See:whipping. (references) |
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Synonyms: SurgingSynonyms: billowing(a) (adj), billowy (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Surging |
| English words defined with "surging": renascent, resurgent. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "surging": hydraulic action ♦ Knapp bottom pressure gage. (references) |
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Screenplays | The place is surging with girls. (A Hard Day's Night; writing credit: Alun Owen) I felt it just surging through me, every fiber of my being. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Port broadside view, taken while the submarine was underway with water surging over her bow, 30 April 1961. Photographed by J.L. Snell. Credit: NAVY. |
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 | Building; gain; increasing; snowball; rise; swell; surge; surging; increase; build up; intensify; redouble; . |
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Business | With Korea's main industries showing renewed vitality, the demand for high quality, sophisticated tools is surging. (references) | |
Indonesia ranked third but showed the largest growth in percentage terms, with sales surging more than 475% to 50,794 units. (references) | ||
With surging capital investment in high value-added products, such as notebook PCs and LCD monitors, the IT hardware industry is expected to grow steadily in the future and will continue to be an important purchaser of semiconductors. (references) | ||
Economic History | Albania | Albania's energy infrastructure has been unable to keep pace with surging demand. (references) |
Canada | Surging oil prices have accelerated major long-term projects for developing Alberta's huge resources of oil tar sands. (references) | |
Bahrain | Continued strong oil prices coupled with surging power and water needs look sure to move ahead several projects in Bahrain. (references) | |
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | This kind of society will not flower spontaneously from swelling riches and surging power. |
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| "Surging" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 79.84% of the time. "Surging" is used about 124 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) | 79.84% | 99 | 32,870 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 16.13% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.03% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 124 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "surging": surging lap ♦ surging waves. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "surging": onward-surging. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
surging | 11 |
engine surging | 4 |
bmw r1150rt surging | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "surging"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متلاطم (choppy, plangent), عاصف (boisterous, dirty, gusty, inclement, rough, squally, stormy, tempestuous, thunderous, torricellian, tumultuous, unruly, wild, winded, windy, wintry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 涌起 (Surged). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | surging, skumdannelse (aeration, foam, foaming, frothing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | schuimvorming (aeration, foam, foaming, frothing), schrikbeweging. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | aaltoileva (rolling, swaying, wavy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | spumescence, torrentueux, qui coule flots, déferlant, cavalement (surge), écumage, torrents. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Surging, Schaumbildung (aeration, foam, foaming, frothing), wallung (flush). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άφρισμα,φούσκωμα (foaming), ογκούμενοσ (resurgent), διαμήκης κίνηση, διαμήκης ταλάντωση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "כי "ים (billow, surf, surging waves). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kavargó (seething, tumultuous, vertiginous, whirling), hullámzó (billowy, undulating, undulatory, wavering), háborgó (boisterous, disgruntled, distracted, tempestuous), dagadó (swelling, thin flank), áradó (flooding, torrential). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | spumenescenza (foaming), avanzamento oscillante. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | '濤 (surging waves). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひとなみ (being average, ordinary, stampede, surging crowd, wave of humanity), ひとな れ (surging crowd), さかまく (surging water or waves), どとう (raging billows, surging waves), はとう (rough sea, surging sea, wave crest, whitecaps). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 밀어닥침. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | freaynagh (billowy, foaming, overflowing, raging, roaring, turbulent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urgingsay exsudado (exudate), caturrada. (various references) вздыматься (billow, heave, surge, surged). (various references) exudado (bleeding, exudate, foaming), estrepada. (various references) svallning, böljande (billowy, flowing, wavy). (various references) kabarma (eruption, flow, ground swell, heave, heaving, intumescence, pulvinate, surge, swell, swelling, upheaval, uprising, upsurge, upthrust), kabaran (intumescent, surgy, swelling, tumescent), inişli çıkışlı (bumpy, chequered, remittent, rugged, seesaw, surgy, undulant, uneven, up and down, with ups and downs), dalgalanma (fluctuation, ripple, roll, ruffle, surge, sway, undulation), dalgalanan (floating, fluctuating, flying, surgy, undulant, undulating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "surging": resurging, upsurging. (additional references) | |
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"Surging" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sargin, scragging, serging, sureing, surgen, surgin, surgings, Surin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "surging" (pronounced ser"jing) |
| 5 | s er" j i ng | resurging. |
| 4 | -er" j i ng | converging, diverging, emerging, merging, purging, splurging, urging, verging. |
| 3 | -j i ng | acknowledging, aging, alleging, arbitraging, arranging, avenging, averaging, besieging, bridging, bulging, challenging, changing, charging, cringing, damaging, discharging, discouraging, disengaging, dislodging, disparaging, divulging, dodging, dredging, edging, encouraging, engaging, enlarging, enraging, exchanging, fledging, foraging, forging, fudging, gauging, gouging, grudging, hedging, hemorrhaging, imaging, indulging, infringing, judging, leveraging, lodging, lounging, lunging, managing, messaging, micromanaging, mischarging, mismanaging, mortgaging, nudging, obliging, outraging, overcharging, packaging, paging, pillaging, pledging, plunging, presaging, raging, rampaging, ranging, ravaging, rearranging, recharging, repackaging, rummaging, salvaging, savaging, scavenging, scrounging, shortchanging, staging, trudging, unchanging, waging. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-g-i-n-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: unrigs, urging. | |
-2 letters: girns, grigs, grins, rings, ruing, ruins, rungs, suing, unrig, using. | |
-3 letters: gigs, gins, girn, gnus, grig, grin, guns, rigs, ring, rins, rugs, ruin, rung, runs, sign, sing, snug, sung, urns. | |
-4 letters: gig, gin, gnu, gun, ins, nus, rig, rin, rug, run, sin, sir, sri, sun, uns, urn. | |
-5 letters: in, is, nu, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-g-i-n-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: grousing, purgings, sugaring. | |
+2 letters: gesturing, groupings, gruelings, grungiest, resurging, scourging, scrouging, shrugging, splurging, upsurging. | |
+3 letters: desugaring, groundings, gruellings, gunslinger, gutterings, scrounging, snuggeries, struggling, submerging. | |
+4 letters: bushranging, disfiguring, groundlings, grubstaking, gunfighters, gunrunnings, gunslingers, outgrossing, scrummaging, spurgalling, subrogating, surcharging, surrogating, unstringing, upbringings, upspringing, vulgarising. | |
+5 letters: bushrangings, churchgoings, discouraging, disgruntling, gastrulating, ingurgitates, roughcasting, roughhousing, safeguarding, slaughtering, sugarcoating, unaggressive. | |
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