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Definitions: Naming |
NamingAdjective1. Inclined to or serving for the giving of names; "the appellative faculty of children"; "the appellative function of some primitive rites". Noun1. The verbal act of naming; "the part he failed was the naming of state capitals". 2. The act of putting a person into a non-elective position; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "naming" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: NamingSynonyms: appellative (adj), naming(a) (adj), appointment (n), assignment (n), designation (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Nomenclature | Noun: nomenclature; naming; Verb: nuncupation, nomination, baptism; orismology; onomatopoeia; antonomasia. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm naming the stars. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Then, I had to fall asleep to the sound of my brother naming his toes. (Everybody Loves Raymond; writing credit: Joe Bolster) Well, I started naming states, but then I got tired of it. So, I started naming different types of celery. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) | |
Lyrics | And there's no telling who that it's naming ("The Times They Are A-Changin'"; performing artist: Bob Dylan) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Naming Prairie (2002) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | "You say there's a horse in your bathroom, and all you can do is stand there naming Beatles songs?" |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It was evident that Thenardier avoided naming the young girl in question. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The most common means of representation in Korea includes the appointing of a registered commission agent (or an "offer agent") on an exclusive or non-exclusive basis, the naming of a registered trading firm as an agent, or the establishing of a branch sales office managed by home office personnel with Korean staff. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Bangladesh | As a result of a dispute between student factions over the naming of several student dorms, Shah Jalal University in Sylhet remained closed for than 3 months. (references) |
Economic History | Bahrain | The Amir as well as senior government officials make frequent public statements naming the attraction of foreign investment as one of the government's top priorities. (references) |
Papua New Guinea | In 1526-27, Don Jorge de Meneses accidentally came upon the principal island and is credited with naming it "Papua," a Malay word for the frizzled quality of Melanesian hair. (references) | |
Human Rights | Dominican Republic | Under the 1994 constitutional amendments, the Supreme Court is responsible for naming all lower court judges in accordance with a judicial career law. (references) |
Nigeria | She also was sentenced to an additional 80 lashes for naming in court but not being able to prove who the possible father of the child was; however, the additional 80 lashes were not administered. (references) | |
Peru | In August the CNM began naming judges and prosecutors to approximately 2,000 vacancies and positions occupied by provisional judges and prosecutors (who were appointed temporarily from a lower court or who were attorneys serving temporarily as judges and prosecutors). (references) | |
Minorities | Pakistan | Armed with this vague wording, mullahs have brought charges against Ahmadis for using standard Muslim salutations and for naming their children Mohammed. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Naming" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 60.78% of the time. "Naming" is used about 306 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) | 60.78% | 186 | 22,556 |
| Noun (singular) | 39.22% | 120 | 29,358 |
| Total | 100.00% | 306 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "naming". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Jesimiel | N/A | Biblical | Naming |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "naming": naming authority ♦ naming context ♦ naming domain ♦ naming rules parameter ♦ shadow naming context ♦ uniform Naming Convention ♦ windows Internet Naming Service. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "naming": naming-words. | |
Ending with "naming": re-naming. | |
| 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 |
naming a star | 201 |
naming a business | 130 |
naming baby | 106 |
naming | 101 |
naming company | 76 |
product naming | 68 |
dog naming | 36 |
boat naming | 35 |
naming pet | 27 |
naming consultant | 26 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "naming"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | تسمئة. (various references) | |
Chinese | 命名 (Denominate, Denominated, Denominating, named, Termed, Terming). (various references) | |
Danish | navngivningsmyndighed (naming authority), navngivningsdomæne (naming domain), navnekontekst for dublet (shadow naming context), navnekontekst (naming context), navnedomæne (naming domain), parameter for navngivningsregler (naming rules parameter), parameter for benævnelsesregler (naming rules parameter), kommercielt forkortelsessystem (shorthand chemical nomenclature, shorthand commercial labelling system, shorthand commercial naming system, shorthand commercial number system, shorthand labelling system, shorthand naming system, shorthand nomenclature), forkortelsessystem for halon (Halon chemical nomenclature, Halon naming system, Halon nomenclature, Halon number system, Halon shorthand labelling system, Halon shorthand naming system), forkortelsessystem for freon (Freon chemical nomenclature, Freon naming system, Freon nomenclature, Freon number system, Freon shorthand labelling system, Freon shorthand naming system). (various references) | |
Dutch | naamgevingsinstantie (naming authority), naamgevingsdomein (naming domain), naamcontext (naming context), schaduwnaamcontext (shadow naming context), parameter voor naamgevende regels (naming rules parameter), Halon-nomenclatuur (Halon chemical nomenclature, Halon naming system, Halon nomenclature, Halon number system, Halon shorthand labelling system, Halon shorthand naming system), Freon-nomenclatuur (Freon chemical nomenclature, Freon naming system, Freon nomenclature, Freon number system, Freon shorthand labelling system, Freon shorthand naming system), benoemingscontext (naming context), afgekorte commerciële nomenclatuur (shorthand chemical nomenclature, shorthand commercial labelling system, shorthand commercial naming system, shorthand commercial number system, shorthand labelling system, shorthand naming system, shorthand nomenclature). (various references) | |
Finnish | nimeäminen (nomination). (various references) | |
French | nomination, appellation. (various references) | |
German | benennung (appellation, denomination, designation, name, nomenclature, term, titling). (various references) | |
Greek | σκιώδες πλαίσιο ονοματοδοσίας (shadow naming context), συντμημένη βιομηχανική ονοματολογία φρεόν (Freon chemical nomenclature, Freon naming system, Freon nomenclature, Freon number system, Freon shorthand labelling system, Freon shorthand naming system), συντμημένη βιομηχανική ονοματολογία halon (Halon chemical nomenclature, Halon naming system, Halon nomenclature, Halon number system, Halon shorthand labelling system, Halon shorthand naming system), συντμημένη βιομηχανική ονοματολογία (shorthand chemical nomenclature, shorthand commercial labelling system, shorthand commercial naming system, shorthand commercial number system, shorthand labelling system, shorthand naming system, shorthand nomenclature), συντμημένη εμπορική ονοματολογία φρεόν (Freon chemical nomenclature, Freon naming system, Freon nomenclature, Freon number system, Freon shorthand labelling system, Freon shorthand naming system), συντμημένη εμπορική ονοματολογία (shorthand chemical nomenclature, shorthand commercial labelling system, shorthand commercial naming system, shorthand commercial number system, shorthand labelling system, shorthand naming system, shorthand nomenclature), πλαίσιο ονοματοδοσίας (naming context), παράμετρος κανόνων ονοματοδοσίας (naming rules parameter), τομέας ονοματοδοσίας (naming domain), Αρχή ονοματοδοσίας (naming authority), ονοματολογία φρεόν (Freon chemical nomenclature, Freon naming system, Freon nomenclature, Freon number system, Freon shorthand labelling system, Freon shorthand naming system). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שיום (labelling). (various references) | |
Italian | parametro delle regole di identificazione (naming rules parameter), dominio di identificazione (naming domain), dominio di denominazione (naming domain), copia di contesto di identificazione (shadow naming context), convenzione sui nomi (naming convention), contesto di identificazione fittizio (shadow naming context), contesto di identificazione (naming context), contesto di denominazione (naming context), autorit preposta all'assegnazione dei nomi (naming authority), autorit di denominazione (naming authority). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ヌ行 (Classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "nu", established reputation, nail enamel, nail file, nail polish, naked, name, nameplate, name-server, name-space, name-value, native, native speaker, nature trail, navel, navel orange, navy, navy look, Neanderthal, neo, neoclassicism, neocolonialism, neodymium, neoidealism, neoimpressionism, neoliberal, neologism, neologist, neology, neon, neon lamp, neon sign, Neo-Nazi, neophilia, neopolis, neorealism, neoromanticism, neosugar, style of motorcycle having the engine exposed and visible), (best, cap, crown, designating, diadem, first, initiating on coming of age, peerless, top character radical), 命名 (christening). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ネーミング , か"むり (best, cap, crown, designating, diadem, first, initiating on coming of age, peerless, top character radical), か" (admiration, advise, appearance, best, building, can, cap, casket, coffin, cold season, coldest days of the year, crown, designating, diadem, emotion, emperor, encourage, farewell, feeling, first, free time, guesthouse, hall, heaven, hotel, house, impression, initiating on coming of age, inn, intuition, just, kan, leave, leisure, letter, look, love of peace, midwinter, nerves, offer, peerless, perception, pipe, recommend, reel, right, sensation, spare time, spectacle, strong, temper, the sixth sense, tin, top character radical, trunk, tube, volume, warship, writing brush), めいめい (christening, dark, divine, each, individual, invisible). (various references) | |
Korean | 지명 (Nomination). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amingnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | nao. (various references) | |
Romanian | numire (appointment, assignment, nomination), denumire (appellation, denomination, designation, label, name, nomenclature). (various references) | |
Russian | присваивание имен. (various references) | |
Spanish | nomenclatura Halon (Halon chemical nomenclature, Halon naming system, Halon nomenclature, Halon number system, Halon shorthand labelling system, Halon shorthand naming system), nomenclatura Fréon (Freon chemical nomenclature, Freon naming system, Freon nomenclature, Freon number system, Freon shorthand labelling system, Freon shorthand naming system), nomenclatura abreviada (shorthand chemical nomenclature, shorthand commercial labelling system, shorthand commercial naming system, shorthand commercial number system, shorthand labelling system, shorthand naming system, shorthand nomenclature), sistema de nombres de dominio (domain name system, domain naming system), parámetro de reglas de denominación (naming rules parameter), PAG (directory access protocol, naming context), dominio de denominación (naming domain), contexto de denominación en doble (shadow naming context), contexto de denominación (naming context), autoridad denominadora (naming authority), autoridad de denominación (naming authority). (various references) | |
Swedish | namngivning. (various references) | |
Thai | การตั้งชื่อ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | nominatio. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 35, Verse 7 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai wkodomhsen ekei qusiasthrion kai ekalesen to onoma tou topou baiqhl ekei gar epefanh autw o qeoV en tw apodidraskein auton apo proswpou hsau tou adelfou autou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Aedificavitque ibi altare et appellavit nomen loci Domus Dei ibi enim apparuit ei Deus cum fugeret fratrem suum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he bilde there an auteer, and clepide the name of that place The hows of God; there forsothe aperyde God to hym, whanne he shulde flee his brother. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he buylded there an aulter and called the place Elbethell: because that God appered vnto him there when he fled from his brother. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he erected there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God appeared to him, when he fled from the face of his brother. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And there he made an altar, naming the place El-beth-el: because it was there he had the vision of God when he was in flight from his brother. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 35, Verse 7 |
| Bulgarian | И там издигна олтар и наименува мястото Ел-'етил*, защото когато бягаше от лицето на брата си, там му се яви Бог. |
| Cebuano | Ug nagtukod siya didto ug usa ka halaran, ug iyang gihinganlan ang dapit El-Bethel, kay didto mitungha kaniya ang Dios sa pagkalagiw niya gikan sa atubangan sa iyang igsoon nga lalake. |
| Chinese | 他 在 那 裡 築 了 一 座 壇 、 就 給 那 地 方 起 名 叫 伊 ' 伯 特 利 、 " 就 是 伯 特 利 之 神 的 意 思 〕 為 他 逃 避 他 " " 的 時 候 、 神 在 那 裡 向 他 顯 現 。 |
| Croatian | Ondje sagradi žrtvenik i mjesto nazva El Betel, jer mu se ondje Bog objavio kad on bježaše pred svojim bratom Ezavom. |
| Danish | og han byggede et Alter der og kaldte Stedet: Betels Gud, thi der havde Gud åbenbaret sig for ham, da han flygtede for sin Broder. |
| Dutch | En hij bouwde aldaar een altaar, en noemde die plaats El Beth-el; want God was hem aldaar geopenbaard geweest, als hij voor zijns broeders aangezicht vlood. |
| Finnish | Ja hän rakensi sinne alttarin ja nimitti paikan Eel-Beeteliksi, koska Jumala oli siellä ilmestynyt hänelle, silloin kun hän pakeni veljeään. |
| French | Il bâtit l un autel, et il appela ce lieu El Béthel; car c`est l que Dieu s`était révélé lui lorsqu`il fuyait son frère. |
| German | und baute daselbst einen Altar und hieß die Stätte El-Beth-El, darum daß ihm daselbst Gott offenbart war, da er floh vor seinem Bruder. |
| Haitian Creole | Li bati yon lotèl la, li rele kote a Betèl, paske se la Bondye te parèt devan li lè li t'ap kouri pou frè l' la. |
| Hungarian | És építe ott oltárt, és nevezé a helyet Él-Béthelnek, mivelhogy ott jelent meg néki az Isten, mikor az õ bátyja elõtt fut vala. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Di situ Yakub mendirikan mezbah dan menamakan tempat itu "El-Betel", karena Allah telah menampakkan diri kepadanya di situ ketika ia lari dari abangnya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka diperbuatnyalah di sana sebuah mezbah dan dinamainya tempat menyatakan diri-Nya kepadanya, tatkala Yakub lari dari hadapan abangnya. |
| Italian | Qui egli costruì un altare e chiamò quel luogo «El-Betel», perché l Dio gli si era rivelato, quando sfuggiva al fratello. |
| Korean | 그 가 거 기 서 단 을 " 그 곳 을 엘 벧 엘 이 라 불 으 니 이 " 그 형 의 낯 을 " 때 에 하 나 님 이 그 에 게 거 기 서 나 타 나 셨 음 이 " 라 |
| Maori | A ka hanga e ia he aata ki reira, a huaina iho e ia taua wahi ko Erepeteere: no te mea hoki i puta mai te Atua ki a ia i reira, i tona rerenga i te aroaro o tona tuakana. |
| Modern Greek | Και ωκοδομησεν εκει θυσιαστηριον, και εκαλεσε το ονομα του τοπου Ελ-βαιθηλ· διοτι εκει εφανερωθη εις αυτον ο Θεος, οτε εφευγεν απο προσωπου του αδελφου αυτου. |
| Norwegian | Og han bygget der et alter og kalte stedet El-Betel*; for der hadde Gud åpenbaret sig for ham da han flyktet for sin bror. # <* d.e. Betels Gud.> |
| Portuguese | Edificou ali um altar, e chamou ao lugar El-Betel; porque ali Deus se lhe tinha manifestado quando fugia da face de seu irmão. |
| Rumanian | A zidit acolo un altar, wi a numit locul acela: ,,El-Betel`` (Dumnezeul Betelului), cqci acolo i se descoperise Dumnezeu, cknd fugea de fratele squ. |
| Russian | Й ХУФТПЙМ ФБН ЦЕТФЧЕООЙЛ, Й ОБЪЧБМ УЙЕ НЕУФП: ьМ-чЕЖЙМШ, Й'П ФХФ СЧЙМУС ЕНХ вПЗ, ЛПЗ"Б ПО 'ЕЦБМ ПФ МЙ"Б 'ТБФБ УЧПЕЗП. |
| Spanish | y allí edificó un altar. Llamó al lugar El-betel, porque allí se le había revelado Dios cuando huía de su hermano. |
| Swedish | Och han byggde där ett altare och kallade platsen El-Betel*, därför att Gud där hade uppenbarat sig för honom, när han flydde för sin broder. |
| Thai | ที่นั่นยาโคบสร้างแท่นบูชาไว้ และเรียกตำบลนั้นว่าเอลเบธเอล เหตุว่าที่นั่นพระเจ้าทรงสำแ"งพระองค์แก่ยาโคบ เมื่อครั้งยาโคบหนีไปจากหน้าพี่ชาย |
| Ukrainian | І збудував він там жертівника, та й назвав те місце: Ел Бет-Ел, бо там явився йому Бог, коли він утікав перед своїм братом. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "naming": benaming, misnaming, nicknaming, renaming, surnaming. (additional references) | |
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"Naming" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Kaminaga, naig, nain, Najin, Nalini, Namanga, Namdi, nameing, namen, namenz, nami, namings, namn, Nanine, nanino, nanning, Nannini, nating, naumanni, nawing, neing, nemain, Nemin, nemine, Nilmini, Nnamdi, Noamana, noming, nuancing, Nyamyn, undamming. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "naming" (pronounced nā"ming) |
| 5 | n ā" m i ng | renaming. |
| 4 | -ā" m i ng | acclaiming, aiming, blaming, claiming, disclaiming, exclaiming, flaming, framing, gaming, inflaming, maiming, proclaiming, reclaiming, shaming, taming. |
| 3 | -m i ng | affirming, alarming, arming, assuming, barnstorming, beaming, becoming, blooming, blossoming, bombing, booming, bottoming, brainstorming, brimming, calming, charming, climbing, combing, coming, condemning, confirming, conforming, consuming, cramming, damming, damning, daydreaming, deprogramming, diagraming, dimming, disarming, dooming, dreaming, drumming, dumbing, embalming, farming, filming, firebombing, firming, foaming, forming, forthcoming, fuming, gleaming, gloaming, grooming, harming, heartwarming, helming, hemming, homecoming, homing, humming, incoming, informing, jamming, lambing, lemming, liming, looming, mainstreaming, misinforming, mushrooming, nonperforming, numbing, oncoming, outperforming, overcoming, overwhelming, performing, plumbing, presuming, priming, programing, programming, ramming, reaffirming, rearming, redeeming, reforming, reprogramming, resuming, rhyming, roaming, rooming, scheming, screaming, seeming, shortcoming, skimming, slamming, slimming, squirming, steaming, stemming, storming, streaming, strumming, succumbing, summing, swarming, swimming, teaming, teeming, terming, thumbing, timing, transforming, trimming, unassuming, unbecoming, upcoming, vacuuming, warming, welcoming, zooming. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-m-n-n" | |
-1 letter: gamin. | |
-2 letters: agin, amin, gain, magi, main, mina. | |
-3 letters: aim, ain, ami, ani, gam, gan, gin, inn, mag, man, mig, nag, nam, nan, nim. | |
-4 letters: ag, ai, am, an, in, ma, mi, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-m-n-n" | |
+1 letter: damning, manning, meaning, moaning, wingman. | |
+2 letters: agnomina, amending, benaming, inarming, managing, manganic, mangling, mantling, manuring, masoning, meanings, menacing, nonimage, renaming, swingman, unarming, unmaking, womaning. | |
+3 letters: alignment, amounting, animating, antheming, bedamning, bemeaning, bemoaning, cognomina, damningly, dampening, demanding, demeaning, emanating, embanking, emplaning, enameling, enamoring, encamping, enflaming, enframing, examining, gammoning, hamboning, imagining, impawning, inflaming, lamenting, machining, maddening, magnesian, malignant, maligning, manacling, mandating, manganite, manginess, mantlings, margining, marooning, meaningly, meningeal, misnaming, montaging, napalming, omnirange, ransoming, remaining, remanding, remanning, romancing, signalman, signalmen, surnaming, tamponing, unamusing, unjamming, unmanning, unmasking, unmeaning, unseaming. | |
+4 letters: alignments, alimenting, amnestying, antagonism, assignment, augmenting, calamining, champignon, cognominal, comanaging, commanding, companying, damnifying, diamonding, dominating, dynamiting, emalangeni, emendating, empaneling, enamelling, enamouring, endamaging, garmenting, geminating, gemination, gentamicin, goddamning, humanising, humanizing, impainting, impaneling, implanting, impregnant, intimating, laminating, lampooning, magnifying, mainlining, mainspring, malignance, malignancy, manganites, manicuring, margenting, marinading, marinating, maundering, meandering, meaningful, melanizing, menacingly, meningioma, misatoning, mordanting, nicknaming, nominating, nonmigrant, numerating, omniranges, outmanning, rainmaking, romanising, romanizing, ruminating, signalment, smartening, snowmaking, unassuming, uncharming, unclamping, winemaking, womanising, womanizing, workingman. | |
+5 letters: abominating, admonishing, aluminizing, ambitioning, ammoniating, ammonifying, amusingness, anagramming, anatomising, anatomizing, animalizing, antagonisms, antidumping, antifoaming, antijamming, antismoking, arraignment, assignments, bemaddening, bombinating, brominating, calcimining, campaigning, centimorgan, chairmaning, champignons, championing, coenamoring, complaining, criminating, culminating, damascening, deaminating, demandingly, dismantling, eliminating, emblazoning, embrangling, empanelling, enumerating, fragmenting, fulminating, garnishment, geminations, gentamicins, germanizing, germinating, germination, harmonising, harmonizing, imagination, impanelling, impregnants, longanimity, machinating, maddeningly, magnanimity, magnanimous, magnetising, magnetizing, magnificent, mainsprings, maintaining, malignances, malignantly, malingering, mandamusing, maneuvering, manganesian, manginesses, manhandling, manifesting, manifolding, manoeuvring, manumitting, marathoning, marginating, margination, meaningless, mechanizing, megaphoning, meningiomas, merchanting, misaligning, misbranding, mishandling, mislearning, mismanaging, mispainting, misplanning, misplanting, mistraining, moneymaking, monograming, monolingual, noisemaking, nondogmatic, nonmagnetic, nonmigrants, nonorgasmic, normalising, normalizing, ornamenting, overmanning, pantomiming, plasminogen, printmaking, promenading, rainmakings, randomizing, realignment, reanimating, redemanding, reexamining, reimagining, signalments, submarining, terminating, transmuting, undemanding, unmagnified, windjamming, winemakings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 61 6D 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .- -- .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100001 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N a m i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0061 006D 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)486779758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Names: Derived from 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Bible Trace 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Orthography 20. Bibliography |
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