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Definition: AGOING |
AGOINGAdverb1. In motion; in the act of going; as, to set a mill agoing. |
Date "AGOING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1630. (references) |
Note: Agoing \A*go"ing\, adverb. [Prefix a- p. pr. of go.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Astir, stirring; agoing, afoot; on foot; in full swing; eventful; on the alert; (vigilant). |
Aid | Relieve, rescue; set up, set agoing, set on one's legs; bear through, pull through; give new life to, be the making of; reinforce, reenforce, recruit; set forward, put forward, push forward; give a lift, give a shove, give an impulse to; promote, further, forward, advance |
Beginning | Usher in; lead off, lead the way; take the lead, take the initiative; head; stand at the head, stand first, stand for; lay the foundations; (prepare); found; (cause); set up, set on foot, agoing, set abroach, set the ball in motion; apply the match to a train; broach; open up, open the door to. |
Regression | Put in motion, set in motion; set agoing, start; give a start, give an impulse to; impel; trundle; (set in rotation); expel. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: AGOING |
| English words defined with "AGOING": To set agoing. (references) |
Expressions using "AGOING": set agoing ♦ To set agoing. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "AGOING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | εισ την κίνηση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | in moto (afoot, astir), in azione (afoot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | agoingay no intuito de (in order to), em movimento (afoot, astir, moving pictures, stirring), em marcha (marching, on, underway). (various references) în mişcare (afoot, astir). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "AGOING": operagoing, seagoing. (additional references) | |
Words containing "AGOING": operagoings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "AGOING" (pronounced 'A*go"ing'): Abearing, Aboding, Awanting, Away-going, Awning, Aworking, Baaing, Ballooning, Birding, Birthing, Bocking, Bolling, Bridgeing, Cannonering, Carking, Colling, Crefting, Deglazing, Derdoing, Dilluing, Dooring, Drearing, During, Easting, Elamping, Electro-engraving, Electro-etching, Electro-gilding, Emprising, Enchafing, Enerlasting, Eploring, Everduring, Everlasting, Everliving, Fairing, Falding, Fellow-feeling, firing, Flating, Fleaking, Fleming, flying, Foreholding, Gapesing, Ginging, Gloaming, grasping, Grinting, grooving, Guilding, Holing, Horning, Hosting, Ill-boding, Imbenching, Impleasing, Impriming, Incanting, Inconcerning, Inconcluding, Inconsisting, Incorresponding, Infausting, Intercoming, interworking, Inunderstanding, Lamping, Loring, Louping, Mandarining, Maying, Meaking, Miching, Misbecoming, Misfeeling, Misguiding, Mispleading, Misproceeding, Mistreading, Miting, Monking, morning, Muting, Newing, Noncomplying, Nonconcluding, Noncondensing, Nonconducting, Nonconforming, Nonimporting, Nonresisting, Nonsparing, Nooning, Northing, Occulting, Offing, Ounding, Outing, Outstanding, Overbearing, Overcarking, Overknowing, Overlashing, Overpraising, Overtrading, Phasing, Plaiding, Pontooning, Priesting, Randing, Rebiting, Redoubting, Reeding, Rinking, Ruching, Safe-keeping, Sarking, Sea-roving, Seining, Self-abasing, self-acting, Self-adjusting, Self-applying, Self-approving, self-asserting, Self-consuming, self-denying, Self-depending, Self-devouring, self-explaining, Self-healing, Self-imparting, Self-knowing, self-moving, Self-neglecting, Self-reproaching, Self-reproving, Shafting, Shamoying, Sheading, Sheeling, Shieling, Shoading, Shroving, Siling, Skylarking, Sleighing, Slicking, sliding, Slocking, Smithing, Snying, Speeching, Speking, Splining, Steading, Steening, Steining, Stenting, Still-closing, Strengthing, stroking, Strouding, Sweeting, Swording, Teaming, Throating, Thurling, Trething, Trysting, Tything, unassuming, unbecoming, Unbeing, unbelieving, Unbeseeming, unblushing, Unconcerning, underlying, Undesigning, undiscerning, undoing, undying, unerring, unfailing, unfeeling, unflinching, unmeaning, Unrecuring, unrelenting, Unseeming, Unsisting, unsparing, unthinking, Unweeting, Unweighing, unwilling, uprising, Waling, Westing, Wicking, Witing, Woning, Woulding, Yachting. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-g-i-n-o" | |
-1 letter: aging, going, gonia. | |
-2 letters: agin, agio, agog, agon, gain, gang, giga, gong, naoi, nogg. | |
-3 letters: ago, ain, ani, gag, gan, gig, gin, goa, ion, nag, nog. | |
-4 letters: ag, ai, an, go, in, na, no, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-g-i-n-o" | |
+1 letter: gaoling, gigaton, goading, goaling. | |
+2 letters: anagogic, congaing, fagoting, foraging, galoping, ganglion, garoting, gigatons, gloaming, gloating, groaning, homaging, seagoing, tangoing, voyaging, wagoning, waygoing. | |
+3 letters: agonising, agonizing, anagogies, angiogram, collaging, dialoging, dogearing, dognaping, easygoing, faggoting, fagotings, galloping, gamboling, gammoning, ganglions, garotting, garroting, gavotting, gheraoing, gloamings, gorgonian, grosgrain, jargoning, montaging, outraging, portaging, ragouting, waggoning, waygoings. | |
+4 letters: abrogating, aggression, algolagnia, anagogical, angiogenic, angiograms, arrogating, begroaning, cataloging, clangoring, cogitating, comanaging, congealing, demagoging, derogating, diagnosing, dialoguing, dognapping, dragooning, elongating, embargoing, faggotings, gadrooning, gambolling, ganglionic, garrotting, glamouring, gloatingly, goddamming, goddamning, gorgonians, grosgrains, hypnagogic, mortgaging, obligating, oceangoing, operagoing, organising, organizing, outarguing, outgaining, outgassing, outglaring, outgnawing, outranging, paragoning, programing, sabotaging, seignorage. | |
+5 letters: aggradation, aggravation, aggregation, aggressions, agonizingly, algolagniac, algolagnias, analogizing, angiography, antifogging, apologising, apologizing, backlogging, beglamoring, cataloguing, clangouring, coagulating, colligating, conjugating, corrugating, decoupaging, demagoguing, dogmatizing, downgrading, encouraging, gadroonings, gametogenic, ganglioside, garrisoning, gasconading, genealogies, genealogist, geomagnetic, glamorising, glamorizing, globalising, globalizing, goaltending, intaglioing, isografting, jargonizing, megaphoning, monograming, negotiating, objurgating, operagoings, originating, outbragging, outcharging, outdragging, outlaughing, overgoading, overgrazing, overhanging, oxygenating, programings, programming, propagating, prorogating, segregation, seigniorage, seignorages, sloganizing, subrogating, surrogating, tobogganing, tobogganist, vagabonding. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 47 4F 49 4E 47 |
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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)01000001 01000111 01001111 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A G O I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0047 004F 0049 004E 0047 |
| 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)354149434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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