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Definition: TROOPING |
TROOPINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Troop |
Date "TROOPING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references) |
Crosswords: TROOPING |
| Etymologies containing "TROOPING": Troop. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Trooping the Colour (1956) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | In a French port, probably Brest, during a post-World War I trooping voyage, circa January-June 1919. Note French sailing lugger in the foreground, with number C1667 on her mainsail. Kansas' seven-inch broadside guns have been removed. Battleships in the distance are: USS New Hampshire (left) and USS Connecticut (right). Credit: NAVY. |  | Front side of a postcard entitled "Trooping the Colors", featuring a parade ground scene at the Naval Training Station, San Francisco, California, located on Yerba Buena Island in San Francsico Bay. The reverse side of this card, Photo # NH 92063-A , features a comparison between conditions in civil life and in the U.S. Navy. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Back side of a postcard entitled "Trooping the Colors", featuring a comparison between conditions in civil life and in the Navy, and other benefits of a Naval career. The front side of this card, Photo # NH 92063, features a parade ground scene at the Naval Training Station, San Francisco, California, located on Yerba Buena Island in San Francsico Bay. Credit: NAVY. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The men came trooping up from the willows, and their eyes were full of sleep, and their faces were red and puffed with daytime sleep. |
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| "TROOPING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 67.74% of the time. "TROOPING" is used about 31 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) | 67.74% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.9% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.68% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 6.45% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 3.23% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 31 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "TROOPING": air trooping. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "TROOPING": trooping-aircraft. | |
| 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 |
color trooping | 49 |
colours trooping | 10 |
trooping | 4 |
2003 color trooping | 4 |
colors trooping | 3 |
color london trooping | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TROOPING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 进军 (Trooped). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | troppetransport ved flyvning (air trooping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | manschappenvervoer door de lucht (air trooping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | joukkojen strateginen lentokuljetus (air trooping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | transport aérien de troupes (air trooping), terminal d'accueil et de transfert des troupes aéroportées (air trooping centre), aérotransport de personnel (air trooping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | strömend (gutting, pouring, streaming, torrential), sich sammelnd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αερομεταφορά ένοπλου προσωπικού (air trooping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | csapatgyülekezés, összesereglés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | trasporto truppe via aria (air trooping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 떼지어 감. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ymmyrkey sidooryn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oopingtray transporte aéreo de tropas (air trooping). (various references) собраться толпой. (various references) vazdušno prebacivanje trupa (air trooping). (various references) transporte de tropas por aire (air trooping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"TROOPING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: toribiong, Tragopan, Tregoning, troking, tropin, tropins, troponin, Truprint. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "TROOPING" (pronounced truw"ping) |
| 5 | -r uw" p i ng | drooping, grouping, regrouping. |
| 4 | -uw" p i ng | recouping, scooping, snooping, stooping, swooping, whooping. |
| 3 | -p i ng | antidumping, aping, backslapping, beeping, bleeping, bookkeeping, bumping, burping, camping, capping, carping, Chipping, chirping, chomping, chopping, clamping, clapping, clipping, clumping, coping, copping, cramping, creeping, crimping, cropping, damping, developing, dipping, draping, dripping, dropping, dumping, eavesdropping, enveloping, equipping, escaping, flapping, flipping, flopping, galloping, gaping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, griping, gripping, groping, gulping, handicapping, harping, heaping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, hyping, jumping, keeping, kidnaping, kidnapping, lamping, landscaping, lapping, leaping, limping, lopping, lumping, mapping, moping, mopping, napping, nipping, outstripping, overlapping, overstepping, peacekeeping, peeping, pimping, piping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, pumping, ramping, raping, rapping, reaping, recapping, reshaping, revamping, ripping, romping, roping, safekeeping, sapping, scalping, scoping, scraping, scrapping, scrimping, seeping, shaping, shipping, shopping, sidestepping, sipping, skimping, skipping, slapping, sleeping, slipping, sloping, slumping, snapping, sniping, sopping, stamping, stepping, stereotyping, stomping, stopping, strapping, stripping, stumping, swamping, swapping, sweeping, swiping, tamping, taping, tapping, thumping, tipping, topping, tramping, trapping, tripping, typing, unwrapping, upping, usurping, videotaping, walloping, Wapping, warping, weeping, whipping, 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-n-o-o-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: porting, portion, rooting. | |
-2 letters: opting, option, poring, potion, pronto, proton, roping, toping, trigon, trogon, tropin. | |
-3 letters: gipon, giron, griot, gript, groin, ingot, intro, nitro, oping, orpin, pingo, pinot, pinto, pirog, piton, point, poori, porno, print, prion, prong, tigon, topoi, trigo, troop. | |
-4 letters: girn, giro, girt, goon, goop, gorp, grin, grip, grit, grot, inro, into. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-n-o-o-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: promoting, uprooting. | |
+2 letters: comporting, outpouring, portioning, proctoring, progenitor, prognostic, topworking, torpedoing. | |
+3 letters: cooperating, homeporting, nonsporting, outcropping, outdropping, outpourings, outpowering, overtopping, postforming, progenitors, prognostics, propagation, prorogating, prorogation, protagonist, protocoling, protonating, prototyping, thoroughpin. | |
+4 letters: apportioning, compurgation, glycoprotein, gonadotropic, gonadotropin, mothproofing, nephrologist, nonoperating, organoleptic, outcroppings, outproducing, outpromising, overplotting, phrenologist, precognition, primogenitor, prolongation, promulgation, propagations, prorogations, protagonists, protocolling, rustproofing, thoroughpins, trapshooting. | |
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