Haymaking

  

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Haymaking

Definitions: Haymaking

Haymaking

Noun

1. Taking full advantage of an opportunity while it lasts.

2. Cutting grass and curing it to make hay.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "haymaking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)

Synonyms by domain: hay harvest (food & agriculture), hay mowing, haying, making of hay.

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Modern Usage: Haymaking

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

A Romance of Haymaking (1910)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Haymaking

Illustrations:
Haymaking

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Usage Frequency: Haymaking

"Haymaking" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Haymaking" is used about 26 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2668,323

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Haymaking

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "haymaking": haymaking-time-fever.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Haymaking

Language Translations for "haymaking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

alergji nga bari (hay fever, haymaking-time-fever). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏متبن (adopted). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

сенокос, коситба (aftergrass). (various references)

   

Czech

  

sušení sena, senoseè. (various references)

   

Danish

  

hoetoerring (hay harvest, hay mowing, haying, making of hay), hoefremstilling (hay harvest, hay mowing, haying, making of hay). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

hooitijd (hay harvest, hay mowing, haying, making of hay), hooien (hay harvest, hay mowing, haying, making of hay). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

heinänteko (hay harvest, hay mowing, haying, making of hay). (various references)

   

French

  

fenaison (hay harvest, hay mowing, haying, making of hay). (various references)

   

German

  

heumahd (hay harvest, hay mowing, haying, making of hay). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

széna kaszálása. (various references)

   

Italian

  

fienagione (hay harvest, hay mowing, haying, making of hay). (various references)

   

Manx

  

jannoo traagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aymakinghay

   

Portuguese

  

ceifa do feno (hay harvest, hay mowing, hay time, haying, hayloft, make hay while the sun shines, making of hay), ceifa (corn harvest, grain harvest, harvest, harvest season, harvesting machine, harvesting of cereals, kirn, math coprocessor, mowing), aquele que trata do feno. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сенокос (hay harvest, hay time, hayfield, haying). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

kosidba (haymow, mowing). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

henificación (curing, field curing, field hay curing, field hay drying, field-curing, hay harvest, hay mowing, haying, making of hay, mow drying hay, withering). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

höbärgning (hay harvest, hay mowing, haying, making of hay). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

сінокіс (hayfield, math). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Haymaking"

Words rhyming with "haymaking" (pronounced 'Hay"mak`ing'): Aforegoing, Almsgiving, Backbiting, Batfowling, Bed-molding, Bed-moulding, Birdcatching, Bird's-nesting, Bluestocking, Bookbinding, Bookkeeping, Bookselling, Boxhauling, Bricklaying, Broadspreading, Bushfighting, Bushwhacking, By-drinking, By-turning, Cabinetmaking, Cat-harping, Cheeseparing, Childbearing, Churchgoing, Clear-seeing, Clear-shining, Costeaning, Cowleeching, Crib-biting, Cross-reading, Cross-tining, Cross-vaulting, Deerstalking, Diesinking, Direct-acting, Do-nothing, Double-acting, Double-tonguing, Downfalling, Downlying, Drawfiling, Dressmaking, Easy-going, Farseeing, Fault-finding, Findfaulting, Fireprrofing, Fly-catching, Forespeaking, forthcoming, Forthputing, Fox-hunting, free-living, Free-milling, freethinking, Gaingiving, Glass-gazing, god-fearing, Gold-beating, good-looking, Handwriting, heartbreaking, Heart-eating, heartrending, Heartswelling, Highflying, High-reaching, high-sounding, High-swelling, Home-coming, Home-dwelling, Home-speaking, Horseshoeing, housebreaking, housewarming, Ill-looking, Inbeaming, Inbeing, Inburning, Incensebreathing, ingrowing, Interviewing, Kiteflying, Knee-crooking, Know-nothing, Labor-saving, Lady-killing, Lammaking, Landlouping, Landowning, law-abiding, Lawgiving, leave-taking, life-giving, Life-saving, logrolling, Love-making, Manstealing, Merrymeeting, mischief-making, Moonshining, Nap-taking, Night-blooming, Night-faring, Nonslaveholding, Oathbreaking, Offscouring, Ongoing, On-looking, Outbreaking, Outcasting, Outlying, Outscouring, Pig-sticking, Pitfalling, Plain-dealing, Plant-eating, Playgoing, Railroading, Rush-bearing, seafaring, seagoing, Self-satisfying, Sharpshooting, Sheep-shearing, shipbuilding, shoemaking, shoplifting, shortcoming, Side-taking, Silk-stocking, Single-acting, slaveholding, Sleepwaking, sleepwalking, Snowshoeing, soothsaying, Stargasing, Steamboating, Steeplechasing, Stem-clasping, Stem-winding, Story-telling, Sweethearting, Tear-falling, Thanksgiving, thoroughgoing, timesaving, Top-draining, Topsoiling, Tufthunting, typewriting, Underbuilding, underclothing, Underdealing, Underfilling, Waterproofing, Water-standing, Wayfaring, Way-going, Weatherboarding, Welfaring, Well-being, Welldoing, Well-liking, Well-meaning, Wind-sucking, Wire-pulling, Wonder-working, Woolward-going, Wrongdoing. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Haymaking

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-g-h-i-k-m-n-y"

-1 letter: gymkhana.

-3 letters: aahing, haying, magian, making, maying.

-4 letters: again, amain, amiga, amnia, anima, gamay, gamin, haika, hakim, hanky, hying, kiang, mangy, mania, mayan, mingy, mynah.

-5 letters: agha, agin, agma, akin, amah, amia, amin, anga, ankh, ayah, ayin, gain, gama, gamy, gink, haik, hang, hank, hymn, inky, kain, kami, kana, khan, kina, king, magi, main, mana, many, maya, mina, mink, myna, nigh, yagi, yang, yank.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Haymaking


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 61 79 6D 61 6B 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

....    .-    -.--.    --    .-    -.-    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100001 01111001 01101101 01100001 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#121 &#109 &#97 &#107 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 0079 006D 0061 006B 0069 006E 0067

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

426791796777758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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