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"TAILINGS" is a plural of: tailing. |
Date "TAILINGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Environment | Residue of raw material or waste separated out during the processing of crops or mineral ores. (references) |
Industry | The finally discarded reject from the screen room. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. The gangue and other refuse material resulting from the washing, concentration, or treatment of ground ore. See also:tai b. Those portions of washed ore or coal that are regarded as too poor to be treated furthe c. Applied to sectional residue, e.g., table tailings, which is the residue from shaking screens and tables e.g., table tailings, which is the residue from shaking screens and tables. (references) |
Weather | Rock and other waste materials removed as impurities when minerals are mined and mineral deposits are processed. These materials are usually dumped on the ground or into ponds. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pulverulence | Powder, dust, sand, shingle; sawdust; grit; meal, bran, flour, farina, rice, paddy, spore, sporule; crumb, seed, grain; particle. (smallness); limature, filings, debris, detritus, tailings, talus slope, scobs, magistery, fine powder; flocculi. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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 | Part of the Blackbird Mine site, the Bucktail drainage basin. This image shows contaminated waste rock and tailings. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | West Fork Blackbird Creek, a tailing facility. The structure to the right is a spillway. Several million cubic yards contaminated tailings are behind the dam. Water is diverted into a concrete channel so it does not come into contact with the tailings. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Tailings area by Richmond portal. This area has been cleaned up and the tailings removed. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | A containment facility or tailings impoundment area. The upper portion of the image shows where the tailings are dumped. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Flat Creek with tailings from Minnesota Flat. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | A failed tailings pond. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Boulder Creek influenced by tailings from Iron Mountain Mine. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | AML. Kaaba-Texas Mine Repository Area, Tailings. Credit: Jake Jakaboski. |
 | AML. Kaaba-Texas Mine In buried slough-onput. Note oxidized and reduced tailings contrast. Credit: Jake Jakaboski. |  | Tailings from potassium mining operations, Solikamsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Kazakhstan | Another opportunity for U.S. investors lies in the processing of tailings or slags following the production of both base and precious metals. (references) |
Kazakhstan | The processing of tailings for precious metal values can be attractive for U.S. firms since capital investment is much smaller than that required for opening an entire mining complex. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | Large U.S. investors include Newmont, reprocessing tailings from the Muruntau gold mine, Case Corporation, manufacturing and servicing cotton harvesters and tractors; Coca Cola, with bottling plants in Tashkent, Namangan and Samarkand; Texaco, producing lubricants for sale in the Uzbek market; and Baker Hughes, in oil and gas development. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "TAILINGS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TAILINGS" is used about 27 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 |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 27 | 66,962 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "TAILINGS": mine-tailings. | |
| 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 |
dam syncrude tailings | 11 |
syncrude tailings | 6 |
tailings dam | 4 |
tailings pond | 3 |
atlas pile tailings | 2 |
cornelia new tailings | 2 |
mine tailings | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TAILINGS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | plehra (dust, garbage, mullock, offal, offscourings, recrement, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, sweeping, sweepings, trash, waste), mbeturina (chaff, char, cheese-parings, garbage, kitchen stuff, leavings, litter, odds and ends, pickings, recrement, refuse, relics, Reliquiae, remains, rubbish, shorts, spoilage, stamping, survival, waste, wrack), mbetje (drift, failure, odds and ends, refuse, remnant, residue, shorts), bëzhdile (refuse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نفايات (dumps, litter, offal, refuse, shoddy, spoil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | остатъци от руда (mullock), отпадъци от руда (recrement), плява (chaff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | rejekt (reject, screenings), hale (tail), grove partikler (coarse particles), grove korn (coarse particles), emter (chaff), efterløb (caster, feints, tails, wheel caster), destillationsbundfald (bottoms, heel), avner (chaff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wasstenen (dirt, discard, refuse, shales, slates), verontreinigingen (companion elements, impurities, screenings), kaf (chaff), grove korrel (coarse particles), destillatieresten (bottoms, heel), destillatieresidu's (bottoms, heel), bodemvloeistof (bottoms, distillation residue, heel, residual oil, still residue, tower bottoms), bezinksel (base, bottom, bottoms, deposit, deposits, heel, lees, precipitate, sediment, sludge), afvalsteen (dirt, discard, refuse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | seulajäännös (coarse particles), ruumenet (chaff), lajittamopoiste (screenings), karkearae (coarse particles), akanat (chaff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | schistes de lavage, rejets, refus d'épuration, résidu de distillation, queue (tail), produit de queue, menue paille, grosses, déchets, balle, bale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Spreu (chaff), Sortierungsabfälle (screenings), Kaff (dump, hole), Grobkorn (coarse particles), Destillationsrückstände (bottoms, heel), Bodensatz (deposit, dregs, grounds, lees, sediment), Abgang (daparture, departure, discharging, dismount, dispatch, exit, leaving, miscarriage), Abgänge (dirt, discard, refuse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έλυτρο (husk, shell), προϊόντα πυθμένα (bottoms, heel), υπολείμματα απόσταξης (bottoms, heel), χονδρόκοκκοι (coarse particles), άγανο (beard, chaff), άγονα (dirtband, interseam sediments, parting, waste), λέπυρο (chaff, glume, scale), αποκοσκινίδια (screenings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | maradék (end, frazzle, left over, left overs, oddments, pickings, remainder, remains, remnant, residua, residue, residuum, rest, rump, stub, the rest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scarti di epurazione (screenings), residuo grosso (coarse particles), residui di distillazione (bottoms, heel), pula (chaff), loppe (chaff), loppa (chaff), lolla (chaff), coda (line, queue, tail, train). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ailingstay rejeitos de depuração (screenings), refugo de depuração (screenings), partículas grosseiras (coarse particles), fracções finais de destilação (bottoms, heel), debulho (chaff). (various references) resturi (draff, garbage, Grout, jetsam, leavings, litter, odd-come-shorts, odds and ends, offal, parings, picking, refuse, remain, remains, remnants, rubbish, scrap, scraps, wreck), rãmãşiţe (debris, leavings, odd-come-shorts, odds and ends, remains, riff raff), deşeuri (cutting, junk, loss, refuse, rejection, rubbish, waste). (various references) хвосты при обогащении (tails), остатки (leavings, oddments, odds and ends, pickings, refuse, remains, rinse, waifs and strays), отходы (refuse, tails, waste, waste products), отбросы (chaff, cheese-parings, dross, filth, garbage, junk, leavings, mullock, offal, offscourings, recrement, refuse, rejectamenta, throw out, throw-out, waifs and strays, waste). (various references) pleva (chaff, glume), otpaci od rude. (various references) tamo (dust, fuzz), rechazos de depuración (screenings), rechazos (reject, screenings), partes finales de la destilación (bottoms, heel), paja menuda (chaff), granzas (chaff), granzón (chaff), colas (tails), cascabillo (husk), cascabilla (chaff), bastos (club). (various references) silerirejekt (screenings), hackelse (chaff, chopped straw), grovkornig fraktion (coarse particles), boss (boss, chaff, guv, guv'nor, top dog), agnar (chaff). (various references) หางแร่. (various references) tortu (crust, deposit, deposition, draff, dregs, faeces, fecula, feculence, foots, grounds, Lees, remainder, residual, residue, residuum, sediment, settlings), posa (draff, dreg, dregs, faeces, feculence, foots, Marc, residuum, sediment, settlings), harman artığı saman. (various references) rác trấu, phế phẩm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "TAILINGS": retailings. (additional references) | |
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"TAILINGS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aylings, jailings, tablings, tauling, Tillings, toilings, trillings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "TAILINGS" (pronounced tā"lingz) |
| 5 | -ā" l i ng z | failings, mailings, railings. |
| 4 | -l i ng z | Billings, ceilings, couplings, cowlings, darlings, dealings, ducklings, dumplings, dwellings, earthlings, feelings, filings, fillings, killings, nestlings, pilings, Rollings, rulings, rumblings, samplings, saplings, schillings, seedlings, shillings, siblings, skillings, spellings, underlings, yearlings. |
| 3 | -i ng z | bearings, beatings, beginnings, beheadings, beings, belongings, blessings, boardings, bombings, bookings, borrowings, briefings, buildings, burnings, bushings, carjackings, carvings, casings, castings, clippings, closings, coatings, comings, coverings, cravings, crossings, cuttings, doings, drawings, dressings, droppings, drownings, earnings, earrings, endings, engravings, etchings, evenings, everlastings, facings, fastenings, feedings, fightings, financings, findings, firings, fittings, fixings, flavorings, followings, forgings, frostings, furnishings, gatherings, goings, greetings, groupings, hangings, happenings, headings, hearings, helpings, herrings, hijackings, holdings, housings, hustings, innings, landholdings, landings, lashings, leanings, leavings, leggings, lemmings, lightnings, linings, listings, livings, loadings, lodgings, longings, lynchings, makings, marketings, markings, meanings, meetings, misgivings, misunderstandings, moldings, moorings, mornings, mouldings, muggings, musings, nothings, offerings, openings, outings, paintings, pickings, plantings, pleadings, poisonings, postings, posturings, printings, proceedings, publishings, puddings, rankings, ratings, readings, recordings, rehearings, ridings, riggings, runnings, savings, sayings, scrapings, screenings, seasonings, seatings, servings, settings, shadings, shavings, shipbuildings, shootings, shortcomings, showings, sightings, slayings, soundings, stabbings, standings, stockings, sufferings, surroundings, takings, teachings, tidings, toppings, trappings, trimmings, underpinnings, understandings, undertakings, uprisings, vikings, wanderings, warnings, weddings, whitings, winnings, workings, writings, wrongdoings, yearnings. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-i-l-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: intagli, lasting, listing, nilgais, sailing, salting, silting, slating, staling, tailing, tilings. | |
-2 letters: ailing, algins, aligns, gainst, gaslit, giants, glints, instal, instil, isatin, isling, lasing, liangs, ligans, lingas, nilgai, sating, signal, siting, tiling. | |
-3 letters: agist, algin, align, alist, angst, anils, antis, gains, gaits, giant, gilts, glans, glias, glint, gnats, intis, liang, ligan, linga, lings. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-i-l-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: gainliest, intaglios, isolating, ligations, litigants, plaitings, ringtails. | |
+2 letters: antilogies, digitalins, insolating, installing, insulating, laryngitis, metalising, outsailing, retailings, salivating, sibilating, simulating, spoliating, springtail, tailorings, totalising, vigilantes, vitalising. | |
+3 letters: agglutinins, backlisting, brutalising, cartelising, dislocating, dismantling, displanting, fishtailing, gadolinites, gelatinizes, genialities, glaciations, gleizations, hairstyling, intangibles, invigilates, italicising, legislating, legislation, levigations, linecasting, litigations, logistician, malignities, misaltering, mislocating, misplanting, misrelating, multigrains, obligations, oscillating, palletising, plaistering, regionalist, sailboating, salpingitis, singularity, springtails, stabilizing, stablishing, stimulating, stipulating, sublimating, tantalising, trailerings, trigeminals, ungainliest, vigilantism, virginalist. | |
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