Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Dozing |
DozingAdjective1. Half asleep; "made drowsy by the long ride"; "it seemed a pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor"; "a tired dozy child"; "the nodding (or napping) grandmother in her rocking chair". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dozing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references) |
Synonyms: DozingSynonyms: dozing(a) (adj), dozy (adj), drowsing(a) (adj), drowsy (adj), napping(a) (adj), nodding(a) (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Dozing |
| English words defined with "dozing": dozy, drowsing, drowsy ♦ napping, nodding. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Only the other day I was just dozing off and I felt this huge (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Wee Willie Winkie's world. They are all dozing comfortably ... Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Elderly couple, in formal attire, dozing while riding the subway] / P. Darlow [i.e., Barlow]. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Fat man dozing in the shade of a tree, New Hampshire. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
 |
| "Sleeper" by Jocelyn Ng Commentary: "My friend dozing on the couch." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Play | Caption |
 | Digital; snoring; whistling; whistle; snore; wheeze; wheezing; saw logs; sawing logs; respiring; respire; sleeping; sleep; dozing; doze. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Ma had been dozing again |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Dozing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 91.30% of the time. "Dozing" is used about 92 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) | 91.3% | 84 | 36,109 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 6.52% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.17% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 92 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "dozing": dozing-off. | |
Ending with "dozing": bull-dozing, half-dozing. | |
| 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 |
dozing mikes | 47 |
dozing | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dozing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | полусънен (half asleep, somnolent). (various references) | |
Chinese | 打盹 (Doze, Dozed). (various references) | |
German | dösend (snoozing). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 転び寝 , 転寝 (napping on the floor), うたた寝 (idle, long-winded and meaningless, napping on the floor), 居眠り (nodding off), とやかく言う (drowsily, dull, grated yam, slow, stupid, to complain, to say all kinds of things, tuna meat). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | うたたね (nap, napping on the floor, siesta), いねむり (nodding off), ごろね (napping on the floor), ころびね, とろとろ (drowsily). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ozingday.(various references) | |
Romanian | moţãialã (doze, drowse, drowsiness), clipocire. (various references) | |
Turkish | pinekleme (slumber, slumbers). (various references) | |
Turkmen | oяaly-ukuly (half asleep). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "dozing": bulldozing. (additional references) | |
| |
"Dozing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dobing, docing, doding, doeing, dooving, doring, Dosanjh, dosings, doving, dozi, dozings, Dzodzi, dzongri, Dzwig, Kozinc, Od'ing, od-ing, ozin, tozin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dozing" (pronounced dō"zing) |
| 4 | -ō" z i ng | closing, composing, decomposing, disclosing, disposing, enclosing, exposing, foreclosing, hosing, imposing, nosing, opposing, posing, predisposing, proposing, reimposing, Rosing, supposing. |
| 3 | -z i ng | antagonizing, apologizing, appeasing, appetizing, appraising, arising, abusing, accusing, advertising, advising, aggrandizing, agonizing, amazing, amortizing, amusing, analyzing, arousing, authorizing, blazing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, brutalizing, bulldozing, buzzing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, carousing, categorizing, causing, centralizing, characterizing, chastising, choosing, cleansing, colorizing, commercializing, comprising, compromising, computerizing, confusing, criminalizing, criticizing, cruising, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, decriminalizing, deemphasizing, defusing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, devising, diffusing, digitizing, disguising, downsizing, dramatizing, easing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, espousing, excusing, exercising, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, formalizing, franchising, fraternizing, freezing, fusing, galvanizing, gazing, generalizing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, harmonizing, hazing, housing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immortalizing, immunizing, improvising, industrializing, infusing, institutionalizing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, losing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, misusing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, musing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, oozing, organizing, overgrazing, overusing, oxidizing, paralyzing, paraphrasing, patronizing, pausing, penalizing, personalizing, perusing, phasing, phrasing, pleasing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, praising, prioritizing, privatizing, proselytizing, publicizing, quizzing, raising, rationalizing, razing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, recusing, refusing, reorganizing, reusing, revising, revitalizing, revolutionizing, rising, romanticizing, sanitizing, satirizing, schmoozing, scrutinizing, securitizing, seizing, sensationalizing, sizing, sneezing, snoozing, socializing, specializing, squeezing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, strategizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, surprising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, teasing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, uncompromising, unionizing, unsurprising, uprising, using, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, victimizing, visualizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing, womanizing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-i-n-o-z" | |
-1 letter: dingo, doing. | |
-2 letters: ding, dong, nodi, zing. | |
-3 letters: dig, din, dog, don, gid, gin, god, ion, nod, nog, zig, zin. | |
-4 letters: do, go, id, in, no, od, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-i-n-o-z" | |
+2 letters: agonized, cognized, dozening, iodizing. | |
+3 letters: anodizing, idolizing, odorizing, organized, oxidizing. | |
+4 letters: analogized, bulldozing, deionizing, demonizing, downsizing, gorgonized, gormandize, jargonized, melodizing, recognized, sloganized, sodomizing. | |
+5 letters: antagonized, deodorizing, deoxidizing, diabolizing, diagonalize, diazotizing, disorganize, dogmatizing, epoxidizing, gormandized, gormandizer, gormandizes, gourmandize, homogenized, hydrolyzing, lysogenized, methodizing, modernizing, mongrelized, outdazzling, podzolizing, randomizing, reorganized, reoxidizing, unorganized. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Images: Digital Art 8. Sounds | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
