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Definition: Weaning |
WeaningNoun1. The act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "weaning" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1748. (references) |
Synonym: WeaningSynonym: ablactation (n). (additional references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Weaning."
Crosswords: Weaning |
| English words defined with "weaning": Delactation. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "weaning": Edema Disease of Swine ♦ farrowing sow ♦ HOG-CONFINEMENT-SYSTEM MANAGER ♦ medicated early weaning ♦ nursing sow ♦ segregated early weaning, suckling sow ♦ Ventilator Weaning. (references) |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Puppy; puppies; whining; whine; wean; weaning; crying; whimpering; whimper. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Weaning a patient too rapidly or prematurely can be dangerous. (references) | |
Weaning is a complex process that requires the understanding and cooperation of the patient. (references) | ||
The process of returning the patient to unassisted and spontaneous breathing is called weaning. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Weaning" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 64.62% of the time. "Weaning" is used about 65 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) | 64.62% | 42 | 52,864 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 20% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (singular) | 15.38% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 65 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "weaning": medicated early weaning ♦ segregated early weaning ♦ Ventilator Weaning ♦ weaning brash. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "weaning": weaning-off, weaning-trauma. | |
Ending with "weaning": Post-weaning, pre-weaning. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
weaning | 135 | weaning baby from breast | 6 |
weaning kitten | 79 | horse weaning | 6 |
puppy weaning | 72 | pacifier weaning | 6 |
breast feeding weaning | 66 | rabbit weaning | 5 |
weaning baby | 60 | goat weaning | 5 |
bottle from weaning | 17 | calf weaning | 4 |
bottle weaning | 16 | baby rabbit weaning | 4 |
weaning from breast feeding | 16 | prednisone weaning | 4 |
ventilator weaning | 16 | colt weaning | 4 |
weaning from breast | 12 | bottle from toddler weaning | 4 |
weaning toddler | 12 | mouse weaning | 4 |
weaning baby from bottle | 10 | tip weaning | 4 |
foals weaning | 9 | from pacifier weaning | 4 |
foal weaning | 9 | effexor off weaning | 3 |
weaning off paxil | 8 | protocol weaning | 3 |
weaning infant | 7 | weaning from mechanical ventilation | 3 |
engorgement weaning | 7 | cat weaning | 3 |
ventilator weaning protocol | 7 | breast engorgement weaning | 3 |
off weaning zoloft | 7 | pup weaning | 3 |
bottle breast from weaning | 7 | parrot quaker weaning | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "weaning"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zvjerdhje (ablactation), prerje e gjirit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فطام (ablactation), فصال. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 断绝 (Wean, Weaned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ophør med diegivning (ablactation), fravænning, afvænning fra brystet, afvænning (ablactation, drug withdrawal, withdrawal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | spenen (teats, weaning off), ablactatio (ablactation), ablactatie (ablactation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vieroittaminen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sevrage (weaning off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | entwöhnend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βρεφικός απογαλακτισμός, απογαλακτισμός (weaning off), απογαλακτισμό (ablactation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | הגמלות (ablactation), גמילה (ablactation, maturation, recompensing, rewarding, ripening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elválasztott gyerek. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | penyapihan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | svezzamento (drug withdrawal, weaning off, withdrawal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 離乳 , 乳離れ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | りにゅう, ちばなれ, ちちばなれ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 이유 (reason). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eaningway desmame da criança (ablactation), desmame (ablactation), ablactação da mãe (ablactation). (various references) отнятый от груди ребенок. (various references) odvikavanje. (various references) destete (weaning off). (various references) avvänjning (ablactation). (various references) sütten kesme (ablactation, delactation). (various references) sự thôi cho bú, sự cai sữa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "weaning": postweaning, preweaning. (additional references) | |
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"Weaning" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ewanrigg, tweening, weading, weafing, weaking, weani, weening. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "weaning" (pronounced wē"ning) |
| 4 | -ē" n i ng | careening, cleaning, convening, demeaning, greening, intervening, leaning, machining, meaning, preening, screening. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abandoning, abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, apportioning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-n-w" | |
-1 letter: aweing, awning, waning. | |
-2 letters: awing, gnawn, inane, wigan. | |
-3 letters: agin, anew, gaen, gain, gane, gien, gnaw, nine, wage, wain, wane, wean, wine, wing. | |
-4 letters: age, ain, ane, ani, awe, awn, eng, gae, gan, gen, gie, gin, inn, nae, nag, nan, naw, new, wae, wag, wan, wen, wig, win. | |
-5 letters: ae, ag, ai, an, aw, en. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-n-w" | |
+1 letter: awninged, wakening, weanling. | |
+2 letters: answering, awakening, inweaving, unweaving, wakenings, wandering, weakening, weanlings, weaponing. | |
+3 letters: enswathing, enwrapping, prewarning, preweaning, rewakening, unswearing, unwavering, wanderings, winemaking. | |
+4 letters: enwreathing, forewarning, handwringer, postweaning, reawakening, unrewarding, unwreathing, winemakings. | |
+5 letters: breadwinning, handwringers, interweaving, newsmagazine, newspapering, stonewalling, unwaveringly, warmongering. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 65 61 6E 69 6E 67 |
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