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Definition: ABRIDGING |
ABRIDGINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Abridge |
Date "ABRIDGING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Crosswords: ABRIDGING |
| English words defined with "ABRIDGING": Abbreviatory ♦ -ment. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ABRIDGING": Abridge. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
US Bill of Rights | 1795 | Amendment I. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | India | Human rights groups contend that the requirement provides the Government with substantial political control of the work of NGO's, abridging of their freedom of assembly and association. (references) |
Political Economy | JAMAICA | There have been no reports of U.S.-related firms abridging standards of acceptable working conditions. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ABRIDGING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ABRIDGING" is used about 6 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% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
abridging | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ABRIDGING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | åˆ èŠ‚ (Abridge, Abridged). (various references) | |
German | verkürzend, kürzend (abbreviating, curtailing). (various references) | |
Italian | limitante (limitative, limiting). (various references) | |
Korean | 축소. (various references) | |
Manx | girraghey (abbreviate, abridge, abridgement, contract, foreshorten, shorten, shortening), giarrey (abbreviate, abridge, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut away, cut back, cut short, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hack, hew, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, levy, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, sever, shear, sink, slash, slit, snip, truncate). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abridgingay.(various references) | |
Spanish | abreviando (abbreviating). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: brigading. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-g-g-i-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: braiding, bridging. | |
-2 letters: abiding, badging, barding, barging, birding, brigand, garbing, girding, grading, griding, raiding, ridging. | |
-3 letters: aiding, airing, baring, biding, biggin, daring, gibing, gradin, raging, riband, riding. | |
-4 letters: aging, bairn, bindi, braid, brain, brand, bring, dinar, drain, garni, grain, grand, grind, indri, iring, nadir, rabid, radii, ranid, rigid. | |
-5 letters: abri, agin, airn, arid, band, bang. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-g-g-i-i-n-r" | |
+3 letters: biodegrading. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Historic | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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