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Definitions: Blasting |
BlastingAdjective1. Causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin; "the blasting effects of the intense cold on the budding fruit"; "the blasting force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our faces"; "a ruinous war". 2. Unpleasantly loud and penetrating; "the blaring noise of trumpets"; "shut our ears against the blasting music from his car radio". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blasting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
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Building & Civil Engineering | Is not very effective as it bends to erode the softer portions of the concrete surface and so produce a non-uniform appearance. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The operation referred to as -- is performed to loosen rock in order that it may be excavated or removed from its existing position. -- is accomplished by discharging an explosive. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | The operation of breaking coal, ore, or rock by boring a hole in it, inserting an explosive charge, and detonating or firing it. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: BlastingSynonyms: blaring (adj), ruinous (adj). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | You know, between his howling and you blasting everything in sight, it's a wonder the whole station doesn't know we're here! (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas) The demolitions committee of Project Mayhem wrapped the foundation columns of a dozen buildings with blasting gelatin. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) | |
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 | RecreationNational Guard blasting trailJump Creek FallsLSRDLower Snake River District.Credit: Unknown. |  | Blasting begins.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Firing an anti-tank gun (37mm), American troops of the 7th Infantry Division begin blasting some Jap[anese] out of a pillbox on Kwajalein Atoll / official U.S. Army photograph.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Shows stump on cut-over farm after blasting. Bonner County, Idaho.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Blasting crew and foreman. Albany Mine near Bovey, Minnesota.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Member of blasting crew at Albany Mine near Hibbing, Minnesota.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Vertial drill boring hole for blasting crew. Mahoning pit, Hibbing, Minnesota.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bingham Canyon, Utah. Blasting at an open-pit mine of the Utah Copper Company.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | B & H Aircraft, Farmingdale, Long Island. Sand blasting.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Potomac Electric Power Co. miscellaneous. Trench for cable across Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal at 34th St. after blasting I.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Bomb; bombs; blast; blasting; explode; exploding; explosion. | | Horn; blast; blasting; blow. |
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| "Blasting" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 89.66% of the time. "Blasting" is used about 145 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) | 89.66% | 130 | 28,019 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.52% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.83% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 145 | N/A |
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Expressions using "blasting": black blasting powder ♦ blasting agent ♦ blasting cap ♦ blasting charge ♦ Blasting gelatin ♦ blasting machine ♦ blasting operations ♦ chamber blasting ♦ coyote blasting ♦ frost blasting ♦ multiple blasting ♦ sand blasting ♦ shot blasting ♦ steel grit blasting ♦ wellhole blasting. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "blasting": grit-blasting, sand-blasting, shot-blasting. | |
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| 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 |
fax blasting | 182 | blasting equipment | 17 |
sand blasting | 168 | hydro blasting | 14 |
sand blasting equipment | 87 | blasting glass sand | 12 |
dry ice blasting | 73 | resume blasting | 12 |
blasting | 68 | blasting mat | 11 |
blasting media | 54 | shot blasting machine | 10 |
abrasive blasting | 49 | grit blasting | 10 |
sand blasting cabinet | 40 | soda blasting equipment | 10 |
soda blasting | 39 | email blasting | 9 |
blasting cap | 38 | blasting drilling | 8 |
blasting cabinet | 37 | blasting rock | 8 |
sand blasting machine | 32 | blasting drilling maine | 8 |
plastic media blasting | 30 | co2 blasting equipment | 8 |
shot blasting | 30 | blasting drilling job | 7 |
water blasting | 29 | water blasting equipment | 7 |
sand blasting supply | 27 | glass bead blasting | 7 |
bead blasting | 24 | sand blasting media | 7 |
dry ice blasting equipment | 24 | blasting dry ice rental | 7 |
co2 blasting | 22 | blasting machine | 7 |
blasting smooth | 20 | blasting pipe sand | 6 |
blasting corn | 6 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "blasting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | që prish, prishje (abolition, annulment, breach, breaking, breakup, chasm, collapse, corruption, damage, debasement, decay, decomposition, defacement, defeat, defilement, depravation, depravity, deterioration, discord, dissolution, failure, obliteration, quarrel, rancidity, rancidness, rot, split up, spoilage, stymie, taint, vitiation, warp, wrecking), çartje (vitiation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نسف بمتفجرات, نسف (blast, blow up, blowing up, blowup, sinking, torpedo, torpedoing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | силно предаване, разбиване с динамит, работа с взривове, взривен (blasted, explosive), подривни работи (demolition work). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 炸开 (Blasted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | odstřel (kill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | brydning ved sprængning, blaesning (blowing, grit blasting, pitting, popping), spraengning, sprængningsarbejde, sprængning (blow-out, burst, detonation, shotfiring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stralen met staalgrit (grit blast technique, grit-blasting, sand blasting, sand-blasting, shot blasting, steel grit blasting), stralen met korrels (grit blast technique, grit-blasting, sand blasting, sand-blasting, shot blasting, steel grit blasting), stralen met grit (grit blast technique, grit-blasting, sand blasting, sand-blasting, shot blasting, steel grit blasting), stralen (abort, fail, grit blasting, lines of wave propagation, miscarry, orthogonals, radiate, wave rays), springen (bail out, burst, explode, jump, leap, spring, to blast, to break to pieces, to burst, to crack), schieten (bud burst, budding, fire, set out, shoot, shooting, shotfiring, sprouting, stem elongation, to blast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | räjäytystyöt, räjäyttäminen, puhallus (blow, grit blasting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | travail aux explosifs, tir de mines, tir, sautage sans trou de mine, sautage, sablage (blinding, grit blast technique, sand blasting, shot blasting, steel grit blasting), projection d'abrasif, minage, grenaillage (grit blast technique, sand blasting, shot blasting, steel grit blasting), extraction par explosif, décapage au sable (grit blast technique, sand blasting, shot blasting, steel grit blasting), décapage au jet de sable (grit blast technique, sand blasting, shot blasting, steel grit blasting), décapage l'abrasif (grit blasting), abattage par explosifs (blasting by explosives), abattage l'explosif. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sprengung (blowing up, breaking, breakup, bursting, explosion, mining, spraying, sprinkling), Sprengen (blast, blow, blow up, break up, burst, clean out, dynamite, explode, force open, mine, spray, sprinkle, to blast, to detonate, to dynamite, water). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανατίναξη (blast, blow up, blowing up, explosion, shot, shotfiring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | robbantás (blast, explosion, firing, flying), robbanó (burst, detonating, explosive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | brillamento di una mina, brillamento (firing, undermining), pulitura con getto di abrasivo (grit blasting), pallinatura (grit blast technique, grit-blasting, sand blasting, sand-blasting, shot blasting, steel grit blasting), lavoro di mina (shotfiring), granigliatura (blinding, chippings, grit blast technique, grit-blasting, gritting, sand blasting, sand-blasting, shot blasting, spreading of chippings, steel grit blasting), estrarre con mine, distruttivo (baleful, demolishing, destroying, destructive, devastating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 発 (explosive blast), 爆 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ばくさい, はっぱ (explosive blast, leaf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 폭파 (Demolishing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | bleaystoil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | astingblay rebentamento (backfire, blast, disruption, explosion, shot, splitting), pega (bead, bead of tire, bead of tyre, handle, hold, magpie, take), limpeza com jacto de areia (grit blast technique, grit-blasting, sand blasting, sand-blasting, shot blasting, steel grit blasting), granalhagem (grit blast technique, grit-blasting, sand blasting, sand-blasting, shot blasting, steel grit blasting), extracção com dinamite, dinamitação (plastering), decapagem com abrasivo (grit blasting), arranque com explosivo (shotfiring). (various references) отпалка (firing), подрывные работы (demolition work), подрывной (disruptive, subversive), дутье (air blast, blast). (various references) praskajući, prasak (bang, burst, clap, crack, peal, pop). (various references) voladura (blast, round, volley). (various references) blästring (grit blasting). (various references) вибуховий (detonating, explosive), загибель (bad, bane, catastrophe, collapse, death, destruction, doom, ending, fate, overthrow, perdition, ruin, undoing, wreck, wreckage), псування (corruption, defacement, depravation, deterioration, spoilage, spoliation, vitiation, waste), підривні роботи, дуття (blowing). (various references) sự l m nổ tung. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Haggai Chapter 2, Verse 17 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Epataxa umaV en aforia kai en anemofqoria kai en calazh panta ta erga twn ceirwn umwn kai ouk epestreyate proV me legei kurioV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Cum accederetis ad acervum viginti modiorum et fierent decem intraretis ad torcular ut exprimeretis quinquaginta lagoenas et fiebant viginti |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Whenne ye wenten to an hep of twenty bushellis, and there weren maad ten; ye entriden to the pressour, that ye shulden presse out fifty galouns, and ther weren maad twenti. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labors of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And I sent burning and wasting and a rain of ice-drops on all the works of your hands; but still you were not turned to me, says the Lord. |
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| Language | Haggai Chapter 2, Verse 17 |
| Cebuano | Gihampak ko kamo pinaagi sa hulaw, ug sa panglaya sa dahon, ug sa ulan-nga-yelo, sa tanang mga buhat sa inyong mga kamot; bisan pa niana kamo wala bumalik kanako, nagaingon si Jehova. |
| Croatian | Udarao sam snijeæu, medljikom i gr"adom svako djelo vaših ruku, ali nikoga nema k meni" - rijeè je Jahvina. |
| Danish | Jeg slog eder med Kornbrand, Rust og Hagl ved alt eders Arbejde, men I omvendte eder ikke til mig, lyder det fra HERREN. |
| Finnish | Minä löin teitä, kaikkia teidän kättenne töitä, nokitähkällä ja viljanruosteella ja rakeilla, mutta ei kenkään teistä kääntynyt minun puoleeni, sanoo Herra. |
| French | Je vous ai frappés par la rouille et par la nielle, et par la grêle; J`ai frappé tout le travail de vos mains. Malgré cela, vous n`êtes pas revenus moi, dit l`Éternel. |
| German | Denn ich plagte euch mit Dürre, Brandkorn und Hagel in all eurer Arbeit; dennoch kehrtet ihr euch nicht zu mir, spricht der HERR. |
| Haitian Creole | Mwen voye lawouy ak lagrèl gate tou sa nou te plante ak men nou. Mwen fè yo kanni. Men, nou yonn pa tounen vin jwenn mwen. Se Seyè a ki di sa. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Aku telah menurunkan angin panas dan hujan batu untuk menghancurkan segala hasil ladangmu, tetapi kamu tak mau juga kembali kepada-Ku. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Pada masa orang belum membuat dia, tatkala datanglah orang kepada timbunan gandum yang dua puluh gantang, maka didapatinya akan hanya sepuluh gantang, dan tatkala ia datang kepada tempat air anggur hendak menciduk lima puluh takar dari dalam apitan, maka didapatinya akan hanya dua puluh. |
| Italian | Io vi ho colpiti con la ruggine, con il carbonchio e con la grandine in tutti i lavori delle vostre mani, ma voi non siete ritornati a me - parola del Signore -. |
| Maori | I patua koutou e ahau, nga mahi katoa a o koutou ringa ki te ngingio, ki te koriri, ki te whatu, a kihai koutou i tahuri ki ahau, e ai ta Ihowa. |
| Norwegian | Jeg slo eder med kornbrand og rust og hagl i all eders henders gjerning; men I vendte eder ikke til mig, sier Herren. |
| Rumanian | V`am lovit cu ruginq kn grku wi cu tqciune, wi cu grindinq; am lovit tot lucrul mknilor voastre. Wi cu toate acestea..., tot nu v`ayi kntors la Mine, zice Domnul.`` |
| Russian | рПТБЦБМ с ЧБУ ТЦБЧЮЙОПА Й 'МЕЛМПУФША ИМЕ'Б Й ЗТБ"ПН ЧУЕ ФТХ"Щ ТХЛ ЧБЫЙИ; ОП ЧЩ ОЕ П'ТБЭБМЙУШ ЛП нОЕ, ЗПЧПТЙФ зПУ П"Ш. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "blasting": blastings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "blasting": sandblasting. (additional references) | |
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"Blasting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beastling, blasing, blastign, blastin, blastings, blausten, blisting, Blostein. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blasting" (pronounced bla"sting) |
| 6 | -l a" s t i ng | everlasting, lasting. |
| 5 | -a" s t i ng | casting, contrasting, fasting, recasting. |
| 4 | -s t i ng | accosting, adjusting, arresting, assisting, attesting, besting, blacklisting, boasting, boosting, breasting, broadcasting, bursting, busting, coasting, coexisting, composting, consisting, contesting, costing, cresting, defrosting, delisting, digesting, disgusting, divesting, dusting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, exhausting, existing, feasting, forecasting, frosting, gusting, harvesting, Hasting, hoisting, hosting, ingesting, insisting, interesting, investing, jousting, lambasting, listing, lusting, manifesting, molesting, nesting, ousting, pasting, persisting, posting, preexisting, protesting, readjusting, reinvesting, requesting, resisting, resting, retesting, roasting, rusting, suggesting, tasting, testing, thrusting, toasting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, uninteresting, vesting, wasting, wresting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, annotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, associating, attempting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, betting, biting, bitting, blanketing, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boating, bolting, booting, boycotting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coating, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contracting, contradicting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, faulting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, hating, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, homeporting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lamenting, laminating, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, malting, mandating, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, rerouting, resenting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, thermosetting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: stabling. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-g-i-l-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: ablings, basting, lasting, salting, slating, staling, tabling. | |
-2 letters: ablins, algins, aligns, baling, basing, bating, blains, gainst, gaslit, giants, glints, instal, lasing, liangs, ligans, lingas, sating, signal. | |
-3 letters: agist, algin, align, alist, angst, anils, antis, bails, baits, bangs, basil, basin, binal, bints, blain, blast, blats, gains, gaits, giant, gilts, glans, glias, glint, gnats, liang. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-g-i-l-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: bangtails, bantlings, blastings, stablings, sublating, tangibles. | |
+2 letters: ballasting, lambasting, sibilating. | |
+3 letters: backlisting, brutalising, intangibles, obligations, sailboating, stabilizing, stablishing, sublimating, subtotaling. | |
+4 letters: absolutizing, amblygonites, bestializing, billingsgate, blacklisting, bullbaitings, establishing, haptoglobins, langbeinites, libertinages, sailboatings, sandblasting, subtotalling, talebearings, tangibleness, urbanologist. | |
+5 letters: antiglobulins, assignability, billingsgates, blacksmithing, boatbuildings, conglobations, destabilizing, restabilizing, syllabicating, tangibilities, urbanologists. | |
| 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)42 6C 61 73 74 69 6E 67 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-.. .- ... - .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101100 01100001 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B l a s t i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006C 0061 0073 0074 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)3678678586758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Sounds | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Bible Trace 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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