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Definition: Meriting |
MeritingAdjective1. Having sufficient worth; "an idea worth considering"; "a cause deserving or meriting support"; "the deserving poor" (often used ironically). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "meriting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: MeritingSynonyms: deserving(p) (adj), meriting(p) (adj), worth(p) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dueness | Adjective: having a right to; Verb: entitled to; claiming; deserving, meriting, worthy of. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Meriting |
| English words defined with "meriting": deserving, disgracefulness ♦ ignominiousness ♦ personage ♦ reportable ♦ shamefulness ♦ worth, worthy. (references) |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Freeman, though conducted with a zeal and prudence meriting entire approbation, has not been equally successful. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | The only intervening occurrence meriting attention is the promulgation of a French decree purporting to be a definitive repeal of the Berlin and Milan decrees. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Meriting" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Meriting" is used about 16 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) | 100% | 16 | 87,710 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "meriting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 值得 (merited, Worthily, worthwhile, Worthy). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | verdienend (deserving, earning). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 만함. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eritingmay airidh (deserving, worthy). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "meriting": demeriting. (additional references) | |
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"Meriting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: marsting, medising, Medizing, Meiring, Meritina, Morifing, Muhittin, Neritan. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: mitering, retiming. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-i-m-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: igniter, interim, iteming, metring, mingier, mintier, mitring, terming, termini, tiering. | |
-2 letters: engirt, ignite, intime, meting, minter, miring, mitier, remint, riming, tieing, timing, tinier, tiring. | |
-3 letters: genii, grime, imine, inert, inter, iring, merit, miner, miter, mitre, niter, nitre, reign, remit, renig, tiger, timer, tinge, trine. | |
-4 letters: emir, emit, gent, germ, gien, girn, girt, grim, grin. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-i-m-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: reminting, remitting, timbering. | |
+2 letters: demeriting, emigrating, emigration, ignimbrite, metrifying, misterming, overtiming, permitting, reemitting, retrimming, springtime, timberings, trigeminal, unmitering. | |
+3 letters: determining, embittering, embrittling, emigrations, extermining, germinating, germination, germinative, goniometric, ignimbrites, imbittering, impetrating, imprecating, intermingle, intermixing, meliorating, metricizing, ministering, misaltering, miscreating, misentering, misrelating, missteering, mistreating, mutineering, prelimiting, pretrimming, readmitting, reanimating, regimenting, reimporting, remediating, remigration, springtimes, temporising, temporizing, terminating, timeserving, trigeminals, tumorigenic, unremitting. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 65 72 69 74 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- . .-. .. - .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100101 01110010 01101001 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M e r i t i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0065 0072 0069 0074 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4771847586758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Speeches | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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