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Definition: Disappearing |
DisappearingAdjective1. Quickly going away and passing out of sight: "all I saw was his vanishing back". Noun1. The act of leaving secretly or without explanation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "disappearing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: DisappearingSynonyms: vanishing (adj), disappearance (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: appearance (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Disappearing |
| English words defined with "disappearing": Disappearing carriage, Disparition ♦ Engouled ♦ Monocrotism ♦ Phantom tumor, Pulse wave ♦ setting ♦ vanishing, Visual purple. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "disappearing": Adder ♦ diffuse away ♦ energy conservation law ♦ green flash, green ray ♦ incisive suture ♦ Pictures ♦ White Moth. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "disappearing": Disappear. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | In a world that's disappearing, I'm afraid (The Sound of Music; writing credit: Richard Rodgers; Oscar Hammerstein II) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Disappearing Japanese Gentlemen (1974) Bobby Bumps' Disappearing Gun (1918) The Disappearing Groom (1916) Sandy Hook Ten Inch Disappearing Carriage Gun Loading and Firing (1897) Disappearing World: Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea (1990) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Sun disappearing in an evening sky. Credit: Merv Coleman. |  | Among the last of a disappearing race--Eskimos, World's Fair, St. Louis. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Military subjects. Disappearing rifle in action. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Line of Powerlines" by Tyniuz C. Commentary: "Large powerlines disappearing into the distance." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | What a spectre is that disappearing sail |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Joad took a few steps, and the flourlike dust spurted up in front of his new yellow shoes, and the yellowness was disappearing under gray dust |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Nicotine is metabolized fairly rapidly, disappearing from the body in a few hours. (references) | |
On the other hand, recent evidence demonstrates that the gap in the incidence of cervical cancer between black and white women under age 50 is disappearing, suggesting that the rate of screening has increased among young black women. (references) | ||
Economic History | China | The impediments to foreign involvement in infrastructure projects are gradually disappearing. (references) |
Ghana | With cocoa prices falling and the country's foreign exchange reserves fast disappearing, the government resorted to supplier credits to finance many projects. (references) | |
Human Rights | Zimbabwe | Warrants of arrest issued by the courts are required except in cases of serious crimes or where there is the risk of evidence disappearing. (references) |
Trade | China | The central government has issued guidance against this practice, which is gradually disappearing. (references) |
Spain | Although most of the local homologation requirements and testing standards are gradually disappearing as Spanish legislation conforms to EU directives, certain homologation and other special requirements remain for some products. (references) | |
Women | Burkina Faso | According to press reports in previous years, some persons who have practiced FGM and the victims' parents were arrested, and some FGM practitioners were prosecuted and received prison sentences under the law, which forbids FGM. Another form of mutilation, scarification of the faces of both boys and girls of certain ethnic groups, gradually is disappearing. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | The war in Indo-china consumed enormous resources at the very time that the overwhelming strategic superiority we once enjoyed was disappearing. |
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| "Disappearing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 91.86% of the time. "Disappearing" is used about 467 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) | 91.86% | 429 | 13,364 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.5% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 3% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (common) | 0.43% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.21% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 467 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "disappearing": disappearing aluminium ♦ disappearing aluminum ♦ Disappearing carriage ♦ disappearing filament pyrometer. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "disappearing": ever-disappearing, every-disappearing, fast-disappearing. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "disappearing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 消失 (Disappear, Disappeared, Vanish, Vanished, Vanishing). (various references) | |
Danish | varmetrådinstrument (disappearing-filament instrument), optisk gloedetraadspyrometer (disappearing filament type pyrometer, optical), glødetrådspyrometer (disappearing filament pyrometer). (various references) | |
Dutch | pyrometer uitgerust met een gloeilamp (disappearing filament pyrometer), optische gloeidraadpyrometer (disappearing filament type pyrometer, optical), gloeidraadpyrometer (disappearing filament pyrometer), gloeidraadinstrument (disappearing-filament instrument), aluminiumverdwijning (disappearing aluminium, disappearing aluminum). (various references) | |
Finnish | hehkulankapyrometri (disappearing filament pyrometer), alumiinikato (disappearing aluminium, disappearing aluminum). (various references) | |
French | disparaissant. (various references) | |
German | verschwindend (infinitesimal, insignificant, vanishing). (various references) | |
Greek | πυρόμετρο εξαφανιζόμενου νήματος (disappearing filament pyrometer), αφανισμένο αλουμίνιο (disappearing aluminium, disappearing aluminum), οπτικό πυρόμετρο εξαφανιζόμενου νήματος (disappearing filament type pyrometer, optical). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pelenyapan (elimination, vanishing). (various references) | |
Italian | strumento con filo riscaldante (disappearing-filament instrument), pirometro ottico a filamento evanescente (disappearing filament type pyrometer, optical), pirometro a scomparsa di filamento (disappearing filament pyrometer), pirometro a filamento scomparente (disappearing filament pyrometer), alluminio evanescente (disappearing aluminium, disappearing aluminum). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 雲霞 (clouds and haze, fleeing). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くもかすみ (clouds and haze, fleeing), うんか (clouds and haze, fleeing, leafhopper). (various references) | |
Korean | 실종됨. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | isappearingday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | desaparecimento do aluminio (disappearing aluminium, disappearing aluminum), pirómetro dito de desaparição de filamento (disappearing filament pyrometer), pirómetro óptico de desaparição de filamento (disappearing filament type pyrometer, optical), instrumento com fio incandescente (disappearing-filament instrument). (various references) | |
Russian | исчезать исчезновение исчезающий. (various references) | |
Spanish | desaparición de aluminio (disappearing aluminium, disappearing aluminum), pirometro optico de desaparicion de filamento. (disappearing filament type pyrometer, optical), pirómetro de desaparición de filamento (disappearing filament pyrometer), instrumento con hilo incandescente (disappearing-filament instrument). (various references) | |
Swedish | försvinnande (disappearance, evanescence, evanescent, exceedingly, vanishing). (various references) | |
Turkish | yok olan, unutulan, gözden kaybolan (evanescent). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Disappearing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disappering, dissapearing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "disappearing" (pronounced di'supi"ring or di'supē"ring) |
| 6 | -u p i" r i ng | appearing. |
| 5 | -p i" r i ng | Spearing. |
| 4 | -i" r i ng | adhering, bioengineering, cheering, clearing, domineering, earring, electioneering, engineering, fearing, gearing, hearing, interfering, nearing, overhearing, pioneering, premiering, profiteering, racketeering, rearing, reengineering, rehearing, searing, shearing, smearing, sneering, steering, veering, volunteering. |
| 3 | -r i ng | acquiring, admiring, adoring, airing, alluring, aspiring, assuring, baring, barring, bearing, blaring, boring, caring, chairing, charring, childbearing, comparing, conspiring, curing, daring, declaring, deploring, despairing, during, endearing, enduring, ensuring, expiring, exploring, firing, flaring, flooring, glaring, Goring, haring, herring, hiring, ignoring, impairing, imploring, inspiring, insuring, jarring, jeering, luring, marring, maturing, ministering, mooring, obscuring, outpouring, overbearing, overpowering, pairing, paring, peering, perspiring, poring, pouring, preparing, procuring, quiring, reassuring, rehiring, repairing, restoring, retiring, roaring, scaring, scarring, scoring, securing, sharing, shoring, snaring, snoring, soaring, sparing, sparring, squaring, staring, starring, stevedoring, storing, swearing, tarring, tearing, tiring, touring, uncaring, underscoring, uninspiring, unsparing, Waring, warring, wearing, wiring. |
| 5 | -p ē" r i ng | peering. |
| 4 | -ē" r i ng | endearing, jeering. |
| 3 | -r i ng | appearing, acquiring, adhering, admiring, adoring, airing, alluring, aspiring, assuring, baring, barring, bearing, bioengineering, blaring, boring, caring, chairing, charring, cheering, childbearing, clearing, comparing, conspiring, curing, daring, declaring, deploring, despairing, domineering, during, earring, electioneering, enduring, engineering, ensuring, expiring, exploring, fearing, firing, flaring, flooring, gearing, glaring, Goring, haring, hearing, herring, hiring, ignoring, impairing, imploring, inspiring, insuring, interfering, jarring, luring, marring, maturing, ministering, mooring, nearing, obscuring, outpouring, overbearing, overhearing, overpowering, pairing, paring, perspiring, pioneering, poring, pouring, premiering, preparing, procuring, profiteering, quiring, racketeering, rearing, reassuring, reengineering, rehearing, rehiring, repairing, restoring, retiring, roaring, scaring, scarring, scoring, searing, securing, sharing, shearing, shoring, smearing, snaring, sneering, snoring, soaring, sparing, sparring, Spearing, squaring, staring, starring, steering, stevedoring, storing, swearing, tarring, tearing, tiring, touring, uncaring, underscoring, uninspiring, unsparing, veering, volunteering, Waring, warring, wearing, wiring. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-g-i-i-n-p-p-r-s" | |
-2 letters: appraising, despairing, drainpipes. | |
-3 letters: appearing, appeasing, appraised, apprising, diapering, disappear, disparage, drainages, drainpipe, drippings, gardenias, paganised, praesidia, presiding, redipping, respading, sandpaper, sandpiper, spreading. | |
-4 letters: anergias, angaries, apiaries, appraise, apprised, araneids, arginase, aspiring, deairing, deraigns, desiring, drainage, dripping, gainsaid, gardenia, genipaps, gradines, grandpas, inspired, paganise, pairings, papering, parading, paradise, praising, presidia, priapean, rappinis, readings. | |
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