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Definitions: Caring |
CaringAdjective1. 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". Noun1. 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: CaringSynonyms: affectionate (adj), fond (adj), lovesome (adj), protective (adj), tender (adj), warm (adj), lovingness (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Caring |
| English words defined with "caring": aid, animal husbandry, attention ♦ babysitting ♦ care ♦ drained ♦ egocentric, egoistical ♦ forestry, Foster father ♦ give care ♦ Master of the robes, maternal quality, motherliness ♦ nurse, nursing ♦ protective ♦ self-centered, self-centred, sick ♦ tending, therapy, To leave to one's self. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "caring": caring society, child-care leader, child-day-care center worker ♦ day care worker, Deinstitutionalization ♦ Helps, host/hostess, railway ♦ Institutionalization, Intergenerational Relations ♦ NURSERY SCHOOL ATTENDANT ♦ oncology nurse ♦ PASSENGER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE I, Psychiatric Nursing ♦ Special 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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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) | |
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![]() | 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. |
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George Burns | Happiness is having a large, loving, caring close-knit family in another city. |
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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) |
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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. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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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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. |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | They'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. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 77.23% | 1,010 | 7,306 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 14.97% | 196 | 21,868 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.05% | 53 | 46,657 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.59% | 47 | 49,740 |
| Noun (common) | 0.15% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,308 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Caring Products International, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
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. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| 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 | 養 (caring for the sick, taking care of oneself), 餐 (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 | 걱 (Worry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aringcay разлюбить (be out of love, cease to love, fall out of love, stop caring for). (various references) brižljiv (careful, heedful, painstaking), brižan. (various references) 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2, Verse 7 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | All egenhqhmen hpioi en mesw umwn wV an trofoV qalph ta eauthV tekna |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Cum possimus oneri esse ut Christi apostoli sed facti sumus lenes in medio vestrum tamquam si nutrix foveat filios suos |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Swa Cristes apostolas we mihten beon eow hlæst, ac wæron we liðe mid eow, swa moder þe ymb hiera lytlingas sorgð. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Nether 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 English | 1526 | Tyndale | But we were tender amonge you even as a norsse cheressheth her children |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But we were gentle among you, like a woman caring for her little ones: |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2, Verse 7 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Apan nagmalolot kami diha sa taliwala ninyo, ingon sa iwa nga nagaalima sa iyang kaugalingong mga anak. |
| Croatian | premda smo se mogli nametnuti kao Kristovi apostoli. Ali bili smo meðu vama nježni kao majka što hrani i njeguje svoju djecu. |
| Danish | Men vi færdedes med Mildhed iblandt eder. Som når en Moder ammer sine egne Børn, |
| Dutch | Maar wij zijn vriendelijk geweest in het midden van u, gelijk als een voedster haar kinderen koestert; |
| Finnish | vaikka me Kristuksen apostoleina olisimme voineet vaatia arvonantoa; vaan me olimme lempeät teidän keskuudessanne, niinkuin imettävä äiti, joka vaalii lapsiansa; |
| French | mais nous avons été pleins de douceur au milieu de vous. De même qu`une nourrice prend un tendre soin de ses enfants, |
| German | hätten euch auch mögen schwer sein als Christi Apostel. Aber wir sind mütterlich gewesen bei euch, gleichwie eine Amme ihr Kind pflegt; |
| Hungarian | De szívélyesek valánk ti közöttetek, a miként a dajka dajkálgatja az õ gyermekeit. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tetapi kami bersikap lemah lembut sewaktu berada di tengah-tengah kalian, seperti seorang ibu merawat anak-anaknya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | sungguhpun 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. |
| Italian | Invece siamo stati amorevoli in mezzo a voi come una madre nutre e ha cura delle proprie creature. |
| Latvian | Bûdami 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. |
| Norwegian | men vi var milde iblandt eder: likesom en mor varmer sine barn ved sitt bryst, |
| Rumanian | Dimpotrivq, ne-am arqtat blknzi kn mijlocul vostru, ca o doicq ce-wi crewte cu drag copiii. |
| Russian | НЩ 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. |
| Spanish | Más bien, entre vosotros fuimos tiernos, como la nodriza que cría y cuida a sus propios hijos. |
| Swahili | ingawa sisi tukiwa mitume wa Kristo, tungeweza kudai mambo fulani kwenu. Lakini sisi tulikuwa Wapole kati yenu kama alivyo mama kwa watoto wake. |
| Swedish | fastän 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. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "caring": scaring, uncaring. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "caring" (pronounced ke"ring) |
| 5 | k e" r i ng | scaring, uncaring. |
| 4 | -e" r i ng | airing, 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 ng | acquiring, 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. | ||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 72 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r i n g |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)376784758073 |
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