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Caring

Definitions: Caring

Caring

Adjective

1. Showing a care; "a caring mother".

2. Having or displaying warmth or affection; "affectionate children"; "caring parents"; "a fond embrace"; "fond of his nephew"; "a tender glance"; "a warm embrace".

3. Feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others; "caring friends".

Noun

1. A loving feeling.

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

Date "caring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Caring

Synonyms: affectionate (adj), fond (adj), lovesome (adj), protective (adj), tender (adj), warm (adj), lovingness (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Caring

English words defined with "caring": aid, animal husbandry, attentionbabysittingcaredrainedegocentric, egoisticalforestry, Foster fathergive careMaster of the robes, maternal quality, motherlinessnurse, nursingprotectiveself-centered, self-centred, sicktending, therapy, To leave to one's self. (references)
Specialty definitions using "caring": caring society, child-care leader, child-day-care center workerday care worker, DeinstitutionalizationHelps, host/hostess, railwayInstitutionalization, Intergenerational RelationsNURSERY SCHOOL ATTENDANToncology nursePASSENGER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE I, Psychiatric NursingSpecial Milk Program, SUPERVISOR, ANIMAL MAINTENANCE, SUPERVISOR, ARTIFICIAL BREEDING RANCH, SUPERVISOR, DAIRY FARM, SUPERVISOR, RESEARCH DAIRY FARM, SUPERVISOR, RESEARCH KENNEL. (references)
Etymologies containing "caring": Pococurante. (references)

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Modern Usage: Caring

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I would, but I'm paralyzed with not caring very much. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

You think being a man means being able to hold your liquorIt's caring that makes you a man! (Contract for Life: The S.A.D.D. Story; writing credit: Frank Moorhouse)

If you care about Nibbler, stop caring about him! (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

I've played hundreds of descent, caring, women over the years but it took the role of an exploited, used, and abused prostitute in Elmer Gantry to win me an Oscar. (Women of the House; writing credit: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason)

Whenever he touched me, there was an almost electric caring. (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin)

Lyrics

You wanna start sharing, carinng, Caring again (Love will turn; performing artist: Kenny Rogers)

Carved out of caring (Something About You; performing artist: Level 42)

Movie/TV Titles

Caring for Your Toys (1954)

Past Caring (1985)

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

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Commercial Usage: Caring

DomainTitle

Books

  • Your Bearded Dragon's Life: Your Complete Guide to Caring for Your Pet at Every Stage of Life (reference)

  • Sinus Survival: A Complete Guide to Caring for America's Most Common Ailment (reference)

  • Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5 (reference)

  • Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence (reference)

  • The Ultimate Guide to Shopping and Caring for Clothing: Everything You Need to Know from Blue Jeans to Ball Gowns (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Caring for Your Newborn (reference)

  • Winnie the Pooh: Pooh Learning - Sharing & Caring (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Caring

Photos:
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Photo Album: Caring

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Young boys begin to learn about conservation in the back yard by planting and caring for plants in Urbandale, Iowa.Credit: Lynn Betts.

BLM volunteers reach out to children, teaching them the importance of caring for public lands.Credit: Unknown.

Children learn the fundamentals of caring for the environment.Credit: Unknown.

U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 18, Bazoilles, France. : Johns Hopkins Unit, caring for wounded soldiers.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

U.S. American National Red Cross : Red Cross Nurses caring for British and French wounded at railroad station in Montmirail, France.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Where else can 3 minutes work last a lifetime? : Nursing. Make a career out of caring.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Meet new people every day : Midwifery. Make a career out of caring.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Nursing children isn't all child's-play. : Nursing. Make a career out of caring.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Not everyone can stand the pace. : Nursing. Make a career out of caring.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Condoms Mean Caring : Latex Condoms...Prevention Against AIDS.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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

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Familiar Quotations: Caring

AuthorQuotation

George Burns

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring close-knit family in another city.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Caring

AuthorDateQuotation

Communist Manifesto

1848

In the formation of their plans they are conscious of caring chiefly for the interests of the working class, as being the most suffering class. (reference)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

They agree to recognise any Commission appointed by an Allied or Associated Government for the purpose of identifying, registering, caring for or erecting suitable memorials over the said graves and to facilitate the discharge of its duties. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Caring

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

But she had an almost instant doubt of his caring for her as he had done, of his feeling the same tenderness in the same degree.

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

Up Scrooge went, not caring a button for that.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Caring

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

A major stress might be caring for aging parents. (references)

Coordination between parents and health care personnel is essential to success in caring for dying children. (references)

The annual direct cost of caring for incontinence among nursing home patients is approximately $3.3 billion. (references)

Business

Certain foreign JV HCPs, in fact, have been highly successful by isolating and caring for small patient populations with specific needs. (references)

Children

India

The majority of responsibility for caring for disabled persons still lies with family members and voluntary groups. (references)

Mongolia

The law stipulates the obligations regarding divorce, custody, and alimony to the benefit of the parent caring for children. (references)

Zimbabwe

At the household level, there is an increased burden on the extended family, which has traditional responsibility for caring for orphans. (references)

Discrimination

Hong Kong

During the year, 41 complaints were received under the Family Status Discrimination Ordinance, which protects persons whose marital status changes, who have children, or who are responsible for caring for another family member, such as a child or elderly person; one of the complaints had gone to court and was pending at year's end. (references)

Worker Rights

France

Aide Sociale a l'Enfance (ASE), the state social services branch for childcare, is responsible for caring for and assisting victims under the age of 18 through age 22. The Government has not articulated protection programs in place for trafficking victims. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Caring

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Art Linkletter

The good things about aging are you become more tolerant and more loving, more caring because you've been bumped around. You've had some troubles and you know how tough life can be.

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

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Speeches: Caring

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989They're the volunteers at the hospital choking back their tears for the hundredth time, caring for a baby struggling for life because of a mother who used drugs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Caring

"Caring" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 77.23% of the time. "Caring" is used about 1,308 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
Lexical Verb (-ing form)77.23%1,0107,306
Adjective (general or positive)14.97%19621,868
Noun (singular)4.05%5346,657
Noun (proper)3.59%4749,740
Noun (common)0.15%2245,945
                    Total100.00%1,308N/A

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

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Usage in Company Names: Caring

CountryName
USA

Caring Products International, Inc.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Caring

Expressions using "caring": caring society caring type stop caring for. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "caring": caring-nineties, caring-sounding, caring-will.

Ending with "caring": child-caring, ever-caring, non-caring, paternally-caring, self-caring.

Containing "caring": eternally-caring-for-others.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Caring

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  caring

144

  caring for your horse

22

  caring for rose

91

  caring foundation

21

  caring for kitten

76

  caring tadpoles

20

  caring for orchid

50

  african caring violet

20

  bush caring rose

41

  caring for petunias

18

  caring for gold fish

40

  caring for guinea pig

18

  caring for rabbit

39

  caring quote

18

  baby bird caring

39

  bamboo caring

16

  caring for hamster

33

  baby caring rabbit

16

  bridge caring

31

  caring for plant

16

  caring for elderly

30

  caring place

15

  caring tattoo

30

  caring for aging parent

15

  caring hibiscus

29

  caring for beta fish

14

  caring for a puppy

29

  caring for betta fish

14

  caring for a turtle

27

  caring for an elderly parent

14

  caring poem

27

  caring hands

14

  caring for cat

27

  caring hands sharing

14

  caring for your dog

26

  caring for hermit crabs

14

  caring house plant

25

  caring for a bonsai tree

14

  bamboo caring plant

22

  caring newborn

13
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Caring

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

Albanian

  

i dashur (affable, affected, affectionate, amiable, baby, beloved, darling, dear, debonair, fond, friendly, genial, gentle, good, good natured, kind, kindly, love, pleasant, precious, sweetheart, sweetie, Sweeting, sweety, Truelove, Valentine, warm), dashamirës (benevolent, benign, benignant, chummy, sympathetic, well disposed, well meaning, well wisher, well-minded). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

преставам да се грижа за (stop caring for). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

關心 (concerned), 关心 (Care, Cared, concern, Concerned). (various references)

   

Czech

  

peèující o sociální potřeby obyvatelstva, laskavý (affable, amiable, benevolent, benign, benignant, charitable, decent, friendly, gentle, good, gracious, kind, kindly, neighborly, obliging, open-hearted, soft), dobrosrdeèný (good hearted, kind hearted, kindhearted, kindly, softhearted, soft-hearted, tenderhearted). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zorgzame samenleving (caring society), Inspecteur v.d. Volksgezondheid, Verplegende en Verzorgende Beroepen (Inspector of Health, Nursing and the Caring Professions). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

huoleton (care-free, careless, free from care, happy-go-lucky, light-hearted, non-caring, unconcerned). (various references)

   

German

  

sorgend (minding). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

στοργικός (affectionate, affective, fond), που νοιάζεται, που φροντίζει, τρυφερός (fond, tender). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nem törõdik valakivel tovább (stop caring for). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

(caring for the sick, taking care of oneself), (caring for one's health), 反" (caring for one's parents in return), 介意 (caring about, worrying about). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

かさ" (add, addition, caring for one's health, family property), かいい (brawny, caring about, gigantic, impressive, kanji made up of meaningful parts, muscular, strangeness, worrying about), かよう (available, ballad, caring for the sick, comely face, floral leaf, in such a manner, like this, lotus leaf, lower leaves, solubilizing, soluble, song, taking care of oneself, to attend, to commute, to go back and forth, to ply between, Tuesday), は"ぽ (caring for one's parents in return). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

(Worry). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aringcay

   

Russian 

  

разлюбить (be out of love, cease to love, fall out of love, stop caring for). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

brižljiv (careful, heedful, painstaking), brižan. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yardımsever (benevolent, charitable, friendly, gracious, helpful, humanist, humanitarian, kind, kindly, obliging, public-spirited, well disposed), sempatik (congenial, engaging, likable, likeable, lovable, outgoing, sympathetic), şefkâtli (affectionate, caressing, charitable, compassionate, endearing, loving, samaritan, tender, tender-hearted), önemseme (count, heed, opinion). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Bible Trace: Caring

LanguageDateSource1 Thessalonians Chapter 2, Verse 7
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintAll egenhqhmen hpioi en mesw umwn wV an trofoV qalph ta eauthV tekna
Latin405VulgateCum possimus oneri esse ut Christi apostoli sed facti sumus lenes in medio vestrum tamquam si nutrix foveat filios suos
Old English990West SaxonSwa Cristes apostolas we mihten beon eow hlæst, ac wæron we liðe mid eow, swa moder þe ymb hiera lytlingas sorgð.
Middle English1395WyclifNether of othere, whanne we, as Cristis apostlis, miyten haue be in charge to you. But we weren maad litle in the myddil of you, as if a nursche fostre hir sones;
Renaissance English1526TyndaleBut we were tender amonge you even as a norsse cheressheth her children
Jacobean English1611King JamesBut we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
Victorian English1833WebsterBut we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
Basic English1964OgdenBut we were gentle among you, like a woman caring for her little ones:

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

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Matched Bible Translations: Caring

Language1 Thessalonians Chapter 2, Verse 7
Cebuano¶ Apan nagmalolot kami diha sa taliwala ninyo, ingon sa iwa nga nagaalima sa iyang kaugalingong mga anak.
Croatianpremda smo se mogli nametnuti kao Kristovi apostoli. Ali bili smo meðu vama nježni kao majka što hrani i njeguje svoju djecu.
DanishMen vi færdedes med Mildhed iblandt eder. Som når en Moder ammer sine egne Børn,
DutchMaar wij zijn vriendelijk geweest in het midden van u, gelijk als een voedster haar kinderen koestert;
Finnishvaikka me Kristuksen apostoleina olisimme voineet vaatia arvonantoa; vaan me olimme lempeät teidän keskuudessanne, niinkuin imettävä äiti, joka vaalii lapsiansa;
Frenchmais nous avons été pleins de douceur au milieu de vous. De même qu`une nourrice prend un tendre soin de ses enfants,
Germanhätten euch auch mögen schwer sein als Christi Apostel. Aber wir sind mütterlich gewesen bei euch, gleichwie eine Amme ihr Kind pflegt;
HungarianDe szívélyesek valánk ti közöttetek, a miként a dajka dajkálgatja az õ gyermekeit.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariTetapi kami bersikap lemah lembut sewaktu berada di tengah-tengah kalian, seperti seorang ibu merawat anak-anaknya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lamasungguhpun ada kuasa kepada kami menunjukkan kemuliaan kami sebab kami menjadi rasul-rasul Kristus, tetapi kami lemah lembut di antara kamu seperti seorang ibu mengasuh anak-anaknya sendiri.
ItalianInvece siamo stati amorevoli in mezzo a voi come una madre nutre e ha cura delle proprie creature.
LatvianBûdami Kristus apustuïi, mçs drîkstçjâm jûs apgrûtinât, bet starp jums mçs bijâm pilni pazemîbas kâ mâte, kas rûpçjas par saviem bçrniem.
Maori¶ Engari i ngawari matou i waenganui i a koutou, i rite ki te kaiatawhai e whakaahuru ana i ana tamariki ake.
Norwegianmen vi var milde iblandt eder: likesom en mor varmer sine barn ved sitt bryst,
RumanianDimpotrivq, ne-am arqtat blknzi kn mijlocul vostru, ca o doicq ce-wi crewte cu drag copiii.
RussianНЩ НПЗМЙ СЧЙФШУС У ЧБЦОПУФША, ЛБЛ б ПУФПМЩ иТЙУФПЧЩ, ОП 'ЩМЙ ФЙИЙ УТЕ"Й ЧБУ, П"П'ОП ЛБЛ ЛПТНЙМЙ"Б ОЕЦОП П'ИП"ЙФУС У "ЕФШНЙ УЧПЙНЙ.
Shuar¶ Antsu uchi Kuírchin ni Nukurí pénker iis tsakatmana aintsarik iikia atumniaka shiir iismajrume.
SpanishMás bien, entre vosotros fuimos tiernos, como la nodriza que cría y cuida a sus propios hijos.
Swahiliingawa sisi tukiwa mitume wa Kristo, tungeweza kudai mambo fulani kwenu. Lakini sisi tulikuwa Wapole kati yenu kama alivyo mama kwa watoto wake.
Swedishfastän vi såsom Kristi apostlar väl hade kunnat uppträda med myndighet. Tvärtom hava vi visat oss milda bland eder, såsom när en moder omhuldar sina späda barn.
Uma¶ Aga uma kibabehi hewa toe. Bula-kai retu-pidi wengi, mo'alusu' po'ingku-kai, hewa hadua totina mpewili' ana' -na.

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

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Derivations & Misspellings: Caring

Derivations

Words ending with "caring": scaring, uncaring. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Caring" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aring, caa'ing, caing, Careg, careing, Carfin, Cargin, carige, carignon, Carignou, Carin, carine, carings, carinne, carino, carni, carnic, carning, Carrig, carring, carringe, carryng, Carying, Caryn, Catrigg, ceering, Cefrino, Ceiriog, Cerin, cerniog, charang, Charanga, charing, Cirino, crainy, criing, cring, cryng, karang, karanga, karring. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Caring"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "caring" (pronounced ke"ring)
5k e" r i ngscaring, uncaring.
4-e" r i ngairing, baring, bearing, blaring, chairing, comparing, daring, declaring, despairing, flaring, glaring, haring, herring, impairing, overbearing, pairing, paring, preparing, repairing, sharing, snaring, sparing, squaring, staring, swearing, tearing, unsparing, Waring, wearing.
3-r i ngacquiring, adhering, admiring, adoring, alluring, appearing, aspiring, assuring, barring, bioengineering, boring, charring, cheering, childbearing, clearing, conspiring, curing, deploring, disappearing, domineering, during, earring, electioneering, endearing, enduring, engineering, ensuring, expiring, exploring, fearing, firing, flooring, gearing, Goring, hearing, hiring, ignoring, imploring, inspiring, insuring, interfering, jarring, jeering, luring, marring, maturing, ministering, mooring, nearing, obscuring, outpouring, overhearing, overpowering, peering, perspiring, pioneering, poring, pouring, premiering, procuring, profiteering, quiring, racketeering, rearing, reassuring, reengineering, rehearing, rehiring, restoring, retiring, roaring, scarring, scoring, searing, securing, shearing, shoring, smearing, sneering, snoring, soaring, sparring, Spearing, starring, steering, stevedoring, storing, tarring, tiring, touring, underscoring, uninspiring, veering, volunteering, warring, wiring.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Caring

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: arcing, racing.

Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-n-r"

-1 letter: acing, cairn, cigar, garni, grain, naric.

-2 letters: agin, airn, cain, carn, crag, gain, girn, gnar, gran, grin, narc, ragi, rain, rang, rani, ring.

-3 letters: ain, air, ani, arc, can, car, cig, gan, gar, gin, nag, rag, ran, ria, rig, rin.

-4 letters: ag, ai, an, ar, in, na.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-n-r"
 

+1 letter: anergic, arching, arcking, bracing, carding, carking, carling, carping, carting, carving, chagrin, charing, craning, craping, crating, craving, crazing, farcing, gracing, organic, racings, racking, sacring, scaring, tracing.

 

+2 letters: accruing, amercing, arcading, archings, argentic, bracings, capering, carangid, cardigan, cardings, carlings, caroling, caroming, carpings, carrying, carvings, catering, chagrins, chairing, charging, charking, charming, charring, charting, clearing, craaling, crabbing, cracking, cradling, crafting, cramming, cramping, cranking, crapping, crashing, cravings, crawling, creaking, creaming, creasing, creating, croaking, curating, germanic, granitic, marching, organics, parching, prancing, ranching, reaching, reacting, reaginic, recaning, refacing, relacing, roaching, sacrings, scarfing, scarping, scarring, scarting, scraping, tracings, tracking, trancing, uncaring, wracking.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Caring


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

43 61 72 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)

01000011 01100001 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#114 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0072 0069 006E 0067

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

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

376784758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Historic
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Quotations: Spoken
13. Quotations: Speeches
14. Usage Frequency
15. Names: Company Usage
16. Expressions
17. Expressions: Internet
18. Translations: Modern
19. Bible Trace
20. Derivations
21. Rhymes
22. Anagrams
23. Orthography
24. Bibliography


  

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