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Definition: Pounding |
PoundingNoun1. Repeated heavy blows. 2. An instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart); "he felt a throbbing in his head". 3. The act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows); "the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"; "the pounding of feet on the hallway". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pounding" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references) |
Synonyms: PoundingSynonyms: buffeting (n), hammer (n), hammering (n), pound (n), throb (n), throbbing (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Pounding |
| English words defined with "pounding": beat, bray ♦ comminute, crunch ♦ grind ♦ hammer, hammering ♦ mash ♦ Pestilation, pestle, Pistillation, pound ♦ salt cod, stamp ♦ tapa, tappa, tenderisation, tenderised, tenderization, tenderized, throbbing ♦ unwoven. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pounding": butcher's chopper, butcher's cleaver ♦ die cutter, DIE MAKER, Durham Mustard ♦ FURCRAEA ♦ hub cutter ♦ LEATHER STAMPER, leather tooler ♦ tooler ♦ UPPER-AND-BOTTOM LACER, HAND. (references) |
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Screenplays | Anyway, did you really want to do Rex Manning in the count-out room? Is that how you always imagined your first time would be? Your back up against the daily totals and your feet pounding against the safe- Oh Rexy stop that (Empire Records; writing credit: Carol Heikkinen) Don't remind me. I'm mad enough to hurt somebody and pounding you just might be the therapy I need (Dragon Ball Z; writing credit: Chris Forbis; Eric Johnson) For Catherine, it's pounding the pavement (C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation; writing credit: Kenta Fukasaku; Koshun Takami) What is happening to me? My heart is pounding, my collar feels tight; what the hell is this (Citizen X; writing credit: Robert Cullen; Chris Gerolmo) Hey, speaking of pounding ass, here comes Stan's little homo dog (South Park; writing credit: Rocco Siffredi) | |
Lyrics | My, my the clock in the sky is pounding away (Porpoise Song; performing artist: Monkees) Kick drum pounding (I Wanna Rock; performing artist: Prince) The siege guns had been pounding through the night (Fortress Around Yur Heart; performing artist: Sting) The suspence is pounding and clouding up my head (Stranger In My House; performing artist: Tamia) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Pile driver pounding sheet metal into location of the self-regulating tide gate SRT. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Waves pounding onto cliff near the Yaquina Head lighthouse. Credit: BLM. |
 | [Caricature of a man about to commit suicide by pounding a nail into his head] / A. Paul Weber. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | "Rear Admiral Lewis Ashfield Kimberly U.S.N. painted these pictures of the hurricane at Samoa after his retirement while he lived at 72 Perkins St. West Newton, Massachusetts. I can recall his saying that it was the swift and tremendously strong under tow that was a great factor in keeping the U.S.S. Trenton from pounding down on the sharp reefs as each wave threw her upon them. He also spoke of the spontaneous cheer of the men on the Trenton, as the Calliope drew past and went out to sea." Comments by Miss Elsie S. Kimberly, daughter of Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kimberly, concerning the sketches of the Apia hurricane that are contained in his personal journal. Credit: NAVY. |
 | John Bull pounding out a British victory. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Detroit news timely topics. Pounding poi in Hawaii. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Blacksmith and helper pounding out plow point. Depew, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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 | Judge pounding the gavel five times. |
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Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley | Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The rattle increased to a metallic pounding. |
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Health | Other signs are fainting during physical activity, strong rapid heartbeats that feel like a pounding in the chest, and fatigue, especially with physical exertion. (references) | |
Repeated exposure to nitrite compounds can result in a dull, pounding headache that may be accompanied by a flushed face. Nitrite, which dilates blood vessels, is found in such products as heart medicine and dynamite, but is also used as a chemical to preserve meat. Hot dogs and other processed meats containing sodium nitrite can cause headaches. (references) | ||
Business | During the period cited, the top five categories of imported CNC machines were machining centers, CNC lathes, CNC grinding machines, CNC press and pounding machines, and CNC forging machines. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Niger | The majority of rural children regularly worked with their families from a very early age--helping in the fields, pounding grain, tending animals, getting firewood and water, and other similar tasks. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Pounding" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 76.12% of the time. "Pounding" is used about 335 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) | 76.12% | 255 | 18,554 |
| Noun (singular) | 15.22% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 7.46% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.19% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 335 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "pounding": Pounding Mill ♦ pounding of the waves. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "pounding": desk-pounding, knee-pounding, mind-pounding, pulse-pounding, stone-pounding, tarmac-pounding. | |
| 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 "pounding"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | هرس (jam, mash, mashing, maul, pulverization, squash, triturate, trituration), سحق (bash, batter, beat, beating, bow, break, crack, crumple, crunch, crush, flatten, grind, jam, levigate, mow, overwhelm, pound, powder, pulverization, pulverize, put down, quash, reduce, run over smth., scotch, slam, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, steam roller, suppress, sweep, trample, tread, triturate, trituration), طرق (bang, beating, enter, knock, knock repeatedly, knocking, percuss, percussion, puncture, rap, tool), دق (beetle, chink, hammer, hammer down, knock, maul, percussion, pound, pulverization, reduce, triturate, trituration). (various references) | |
Chinese | "碎. (various references) | |
Danish | jernarmatur. (various references) | |
Dutch | stamper (pestle). (various references) | |
Finnish | padotus (backwater), vedenkokoontuma, survominen, kalkutus (clatter, hammering), jyske (boom, crash, noise, thud). (various references) | |
French | pilonnage, pilage, martèlement, ferraillage, battement, écrasement. (various references) | |
German | zerstoßend. (various references) | |
Greek | σφυρηλάτηση (hammering), σφυροκόπηση. (various references) | |
Hebrew | שחיק" (abrasion, burnout, erosion, grating, grinding, rubbing, wear), כתיש" (beating, crushing), כתות (beating, crushing), כתוש (crushed, crushing, ground, pounded), "יכ", 'ריס" (coarse milling, crushing, munching), רסוק (crushing, mashing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | dobogás (beat, beating, chunking, palpitation, patter, pitter patter, pulsation, pulse, throb, throbbing, thump). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ketokan (dab, knock, rap), entakan (stamping), dentaman. (various references) | |
Italian | pestata (crushing), ridurre in rottame, calpestio (stamping). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 轟き (boomingbeating, peal, roar, rumble, throbbing). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | とどろき (boomingbeating, peal, roar, rumble, throbbing). (various references) | |
Korean | 타격 (Batting, strike). (various references) | |
Manx | tratnagh, bwoailtagh (hammerer, percutient, quarrelsome), broo (bruise, buzz, contusion, cram, crunch, crush, grind, press, pressure, push, ring, squash). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oundingpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ferro velho (junkyard). (various references) | |
Russian | колотить (bash, batter, beat, belabour, lambaste, larrup, lick, pelt, pummel, strike, thwack, whack, whop). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bombardovanje (bombardment). (various references) | |
Spanish | trituración (trituration), molienda (grinding, grist, milling, weariness), golpeteo (knock, pitter patter, rattle), embate (onslaught, sudden attack), bombardeo (barrage, bombardment, bomber, bombing, raid, shellfire, shelling). (various references) | |
Swedish | bultning (knock, knocking, pound), armering (armament, Armor, armour, reinforcement). (various references) | |
Turkish | vurma (blip, dash, hit, knock, knocking, percussion, percussive, pound, shoot, strike, swat), dövme (basting, battering, beaten, beating, dressing down, forged, hammered, hammering, hiding, pound, swaging, tanning, tattoo, wrought). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | трамбування, биття (battering, beat, beating, bobbing, castigation, chastisement, drubbing, flogging, pit-a-pat, pulse, throb), подрібнення (comminution, granulation, grinding). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "pounding": compounding, expounding, impounding, propounding. (additional references) | |
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"Pounding" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lounding, Pasundan, Polunin, ponding, poundian, Poundiana, punding. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pounding" (pronounced pou"nding) |
| 6 | p ou" n d i ng | compounding, expounding. |
| 5 | -ou" n d i ng | abounding, astounding, bounding, confounding, founding, grounding, hounding, rebounding, resounding, rounding, sounding, surrounding. |
| 4 | -n d i ng | apprehending, amending, ascending, attending, banding, bending, binding, blending, blinding, bonding, branding, commanding, commending, comprehending, condescending, contending, corresponding, defending, defunding, demanding, depending, descending, disbanding, ending, expanding, expending, extending, fending, finding, freestanding, funding, grandstanding, grinding, handing, impending, intending, landing, lending, longstanding, masterminding, mending, minding, misspending, misunderstanding, nonbinding, notwithstanding, offending, outspending, outstanding, overextending, overfunding, overspending, pending, portending, pretending, recommending, refunding, relending, reminding, rending, rescinding, responding, sanding, sending, spellbinding, spending, standing, stranding, suspending, tending, transcending, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unwinding, upstanding, vending, wending, winding, withstanding, wounding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | applauding, acceding, according, abiding, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bidding, biding, bleeding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, braiding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, conceding, concluding, confiding, cording, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defrauding, degrading, deluding, denuding, deriding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, exploding, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, feuding, Fielding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, guarding, guiding, handholding, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, impeding, imploding, inbreeding, including, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, lauding, leading, loading, madding, marauding, masquerading, Melding, misleading, misreading, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbuilding, outbidding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overloading, overriding, padding, parading, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, preceding, precluding, presiding, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebuilding, receding, recording, Redding, Reding, regarding, rereading, residing, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, safeguarding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, spearheading, speeding, spreading, stampeding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, threading, tiding, trading, treading, unfolding, unloading, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wielding, Wilding, withholding, Wooding, wording, yielding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-i-n-n-o-p-u" | |
-1 letter: ponding, undoing. | |
-2 letters: doping, duping, guidon, pongid, unipod. | |
-3 letters: dingo, doing, gipon, oping, pingo, pinon, poind, pound, union, unpin. | |
-4 letters: ding, dong, dung, guid, nodi, noun, ping, pion, pond, pong, pung, undo, updo, upon. | |
-5 letters: dig, din, dip, dog, don, dug, dui, dun, duo, dup, gid, gin, gip, gnu, god, gun, inn, ion, nip, nod. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-i-n-n-o-p-u" | |
+2 letters: expounding, impounding. | |
+3 letters: compounding, outspending, propounding. | |
+4 letters: nonproducing, typefounding. | |
+5 letters: nondiapausing, soundproofing, typefoundings, underexposing. | |
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