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Definition: Upcoming |
UpcomingAdjective1. Of the relatively near future; "the approaching election"; "this coming Thursday"; "the forthcoming holidays"; "the upcoming spring fashions". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "upcoming" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1907. (references) |
Synonyms: UpcomingSynonyms: approaching (adj), coming(a) (adj), forthcoming (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Upcoming |
| English words defined with "upcoming": approaching ♦ coming ♦ forthcoming. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "upcoming": camera control operator, color-television console monitor ♦ Daily File ♦ Executive State of the Census report ♦ Fiscal Operations Report and Application to Participate ♦ varebeholdninger, video engineer, VIDEO OPERATOR. (references) |
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Screenplays | If you want to receive e-mails about my upcoming shows, then please give me money so I can buy a computer (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Fishing as a family business - family members help make up longlines for the upcoming season. Credit: Fisheries. |  | The intricacies of making up a longline - family members help make up longlines for the upcoming season. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | High school volunteers take donor plants to start a wetland nursery. Wetland nurseries are designed to create a source of native plants to be used in the Tampa Bay estuary. Native species are taken from a donor site, transplanted to nurseries established by local schools and are used in wetland restoration projects. Some nursery plants then become the donor stock for upcoming projects. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | An NRCS district conservationist (left) asists a farmer with upcoming changes in his farm plan. Credit: Ron Nichols. |
 | Fighting Squadron Sixteen (VF-16) Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Commander Paul D. Buie, (center) briefs his pilots for an upcoming mission, during the Gilberts operation, November-December 1943. A F6F-3 "Hellcat" fighter is behind them. Photographed by Commander Edward Steichen, USNR. Note flight gear, markings on helmets and life vests. Pilot at left wears a .45 caliber pistol. Credit: NAVY. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Ass City Marathon" by Mark Davis Commentary: "Downtown Toledo, Ohio displaying the upcoming marathon in a humorous way." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Their objective is to charge network usage to upcoming service providers. (references) | |
Saudi contacts are of prime importance when keeping abreast of developments, directives and upcoming projects. (references) | ||
The bidding for the upcoming UMTS license will be a major entry into the French mobile phone market by foreign companies. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Malawi | In contrast slogans and songs of the ruling UDF party advertising upcoming political rallies are broadcast throughout the year. (references) |
Russia | On July 18, municipal authorities issued a decree closing the school for the upcoming academic year and transferred the students to another school. (references) | |
Turkey | In March the Turkish Higher Education Council (YOK) ruled that Fatih University could not register new students for the upcoming academic year, and might be subject to further sanctions, because the university allegedly has close ties to Fetullah Gulen and had violated the dress code by allowing students to wear headscarves. (references) | |
Economic History | Senegal | See Appendix G for a list of upcoming events. (references) |
Israel | Below is an overview of some of the upcoming projects. (references) | |
Mali | All political parties have pledged to participate in the upcoming elections. (references) | |
Political Economy | Hungary | Another issue affecting business in relation to the upcoming election is that of construction and the Szechenyi Development plan. (references) |
Hungary | Although some of the major, high-visibility issues are being affected by the upcoming elections in April/May 2002, trade and investment with and in Hungary continues at a steady strong pace. (references) | |
Political Rights | Malaysia | Opposition leaders stated that Prime Minister Mahathir's remark that same month that the Government would "not entertain" an opposition demand for a long campaign period in upcoming elections demonstrated the lack of independence of the Election Commission (the Commission has the sole power to set the length of the campaign period). (references) |
Trade | Chile | The general licensing requirements will disappear in an upcoming modernization of Chile's customs procedures. (references) |
Azerbaijan | The Commercial Service MDB liaison officers counsel and assist U.S. businesses with obtaining information on upcoming projects and tenders, as well as providing advocacy support for U.S. companies vying for contracts at the MDBs. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Paraguay | Antelco workers seeking to buy the telephone utility conducted strikes throughout the year to press for favorable terms in the upcoming privatization. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Rush Limbaugh | In the upcoming edition of The Limbaugh Letter, I endorse Reverend Al Sharpton for the Democratic presidential nomination. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | The Regulatory Council was established to provide the first Government-wide listing of upcoming rules and eliminate overlapping and conflicting regulations. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Gorbachev's upcoming visit to America can lead to a more stable relationship. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We must be willing to work in a bipartisan way and look at new ideas, including the upcoming report of the bipartisan Medicare Commission. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Upcoming" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Upcoming" is used about 82 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 82 | 36,594 |
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. |
| Language | Translations for "upcoming"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | настъпващ (coming, ensuing, supervenient), бъдещ (coming, elect, forward, future, prospective, ulterior, unborn), предстоящ (forthcoming, imminent, impending, in the offing, oncoming, pending, prospective, toward), иден. (various references) | |
Chinese | 即将来临. (various references) | |
Farsi | نزدیک (About, Adjacent, At, Beside, Besides, By, Close, Contiguous, Hailfellow, In, Near, Neighbor, Nigh, Proximate), زوداینده , رسیدنی , دراتیه نزدیک . (various references) | |
French | prochain, imminent. (various references) | |
German | demnächst (soon). (various references) | |
Greek | ανερχόμενοσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | küszöbön álló (imminent, impending, oncoming), közelgő (approaching, coming, forthcoming, imminent, impending), közeledő (approaching, coming, forthcoming, toward), hamarosan elérkező. (various references) | |
Indonesian | mendatang (approaching, arrive, come, coming, happen, impending, occur). (various references) | |
Italian | prossimamente (before long, in a short time, shortly, soon). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 替わり狂言 (upcoming program). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かわりきょうげん (upcoming program). (various references) | |
Korean | 다가오는. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | omingupcay.(various references) | |
Russian | предстоящий (forthcoming, impendent, impending). (various references) | |
Turkish | olmak üzere olan, meydana gelmek üzere olan. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | майбутній (coming, future, next, oncoming, prospective, unborn). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Upcoming" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: upcomming. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "upcoming" (pronounced u"pku'ming) |
| 5 | -k u' m i ng | homecoming, incoming, oncoming, overcoming, shortcoming. |
| 3 | -m i ng | acclaiming, affirming, aiming, alarming, arming, assuming, barnstorming, beaming, becoming, blaming, blooming, blossoming, bombing, booming, bottoming, brainstorming, brimming, calming, charming, claiming, climbing, combing, coming, condemning, confirming, conforming, consuming, cramming, damming, damning, daydreaming, deprogramming, diagraming, dimming, disarming, disclaiming, dooming, dreaming, drumming, dumbing, embalming, exclaiming, farming, filming, firebombing, firming, flaming, foaming, forming, forthcoming, framing, fuming, gaming, gleaming, gloaming, grooming, harming, heartwarming, helming, hemming, homing, humming, inflaming, informing, jamming, lambing, lemming, liming, looming, maiming, mainstreaming, misinforming, mushrooming, naming, nonperforming, numbing, outperforming, overwhelming, performing, plumbing, presuming, priming, proclaiming, programing, programming, ramming, reaffirming, rearming, reclaiming, redeeming, reforming, renaming, reprogramming, resuming, rhyming, roaming, rooming, scheming, screaming, seeming, shaming, skimming, slamming, slimming, squirming, steaming, stemming, storming, streaming, strumming, succumbing, summing, swarming, swimming, taming, teaming, teeming, terming, thumbing, timing, transforming, trimming, unassuming, unbecoming, vacuuming, warming, welcoming, zooming. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-m-n-o-p-u" | |
-1 letter: comping, couping. | |
-2 letters: coming, conium, coping, gnomic, gonium, impugn, moping, muonic, umping. | |
-3 letters: coign, cuing, cumin, gipon, incog, mucin, mungo, onium, oping, opium, pingo. | |
-4 letters: cion, coin, comp, coni, coup, gimp, icon, muni, muon, ping, pion, pong, pung, unci, unco, upon. | |
-5 letters: cig, cog, con, cop, cum, cup, gin, gip, gnu, gum, gun, imp, ion. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-m-n-o-p-u" | |
+1 letter: computing. | |
+3 letters: carpogonium, compounding, recomputing. | |
+4 letters: compurgation, miscomputing, outcompeting, precomputing, uncompelling. | |
+5 letters: compurgations, computerising, computerizing, uncomplaining. | |
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