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Definitions: Airing |
AiringNoun1. The opening of a subject to public discussion and debate. 2. An short excursion (a walk or ride) in the open air; "he took the dogs for an airing". 3. The act of supplying fresh air and getting rid of foul air. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "airing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1732. (references) |
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Mining | Operation in which air is blown through molten copper in a wire bar or anode furnace. Sulfur is removed as SO, and impurities are slagged off. (references) |
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Synonyms: AiringSynonyms: circulation (n), dissemination (n), public exposure (n), spreading (n), ventilation (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Journey | Journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation; noctambulation, noctambulism; somnambulism; outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Airing |
| English words defined with "airing": airing cupboard. (references) |
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 | In port, August 1933, with bedding airing on her lifelines. Her broadside battery of six-inch guns had been removed by this time. Note the recesses in her hull side where side armor had been located prior to her conversion to a training ship.Credit: NAVY. |  | Airing hammocks (U.S.S. New York).Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mrs. Eargle of Fairfield airing her bedding preparatory to moving to her new home at Gardendale, Alabama.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Airing a mattress in mountain family's backyard up Burton's Fork of the Kentucky River. Breathitt County, Kentucky.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Van Buren, Maine. Wool airing on line before spinning.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Aroostook County, Maine. Airing wool before spinning.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Henry David Thoreau | We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | An airing in the Hartfield carriage would have been the rack, and arrowroot from the Hartfield storeroom must have been poison. |
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Business | Cable operators can take advantage of tax credits from the PIA by airing public service announcements or advertisements in their stations. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Iran | Sunnis also have accused the state broadcasting company of airing programming insulting to Sunnis. (references) |
Angola | In February Radio Ecclesia began airing daily, 1 hour, short-wave broadcasts across the entire country. (references) | |
Congo | Government broadcast media focused its attention on the activities of government officials and their supporters; there was no meaningful airing of alternative political views. (references) | |
Human Rights | Sierra Leone | In June 2000, the Government asked the U.N. to help set up a Special Court to try those who "bear the greatest responsibility for the commission of crimes against humanity, war crimes, and serious violations of international humanitarian law, as well as crimes under relevant Sierra Leonean law within the territory of Sierra Leone since November 30, 1996." In February 2000, Parliament approved the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Bill, which would create a TRC to provide a forum for publicly airing the grievances of victims and the confessions of perpetrators from the civil war; however, the Commission had not been established by year's end. (references) |
Political Rights | Brunei | Meetings between senior government officials and mukim representatives allow for airing of local grievances and concerns. (references) |
Worker Rights | Bangladesh | Many civil servants who are forbidden to join unions, such as teachers and nurses, have formed associations that perform functions similar to labor unions, that is, providing for members' welfare, offering legal services, and airing grievances. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Airing" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.23% of the time. "Airing" is used about 161 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 83.23% | 134 | 27,488 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 16.77% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Total | 100.00% | 161 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "airing": airing cupboard ♦ give an airing to ♦ give smth. an airing ♦ go for an airing ♦ take an airing. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "airing": airing-cupboard. | |
Ending with "airing": de-airing, johnny-head-in-airing. | |
| 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 |
airing | 16 |
airing her nipples | 10 |
airing power ranger | 8 |
airing cupboard | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "airing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ajrosje (ventilation), ajrim (aeration, ventilation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فى الهواء الطلق (outdoor), تهوئة (aeration), التجفيف. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разходка (blow, drive, outing, perambulation, promenade, ramble, stroll, ta-ta, tour, turn, walk), радиопредаване (broadcast, broadcasting, radio, steam-radio, transmission), проветряване (aeration, blow, ventilation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 宣扬 (Aired, airs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vyvìtrání. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | toerreskab (airing cupboard, drying chamber, drying oven, incubator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | luchtverversing (air-circulation, fanning, ventilation), luchttoevoer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | lufta (aerate, air out, give an airing, ventilate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tuuletus (gassing, ventilation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | aération (air renewal, air-circulation, airiness), ventilation (air renewal, air-circulation), séchage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | lüftung (aeration, air-circulation, bleeding, fanning, ventilation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άσκηση στο ύπαιθρο, αερισμόσ (aeration, ventilation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אורור (aeration, vent, ventilation), "תאוררות (ventilation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szellõztetés (aeration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pengangin-anginan (seration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | aria (air, appearance, aria, aspect, atmosphere, climate, countenance, expression, look, sight, tune, view), aerazione (aeration, air renewal, air-circulation, fanning, ventilation), boccata d'aria. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 虫干し (airing out), 風入れ (give an airing), 土"干し (summer airing), 曝書 (airing of books). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ばくしょ (airing of books), どようぼし (summer airing), かざいれ (give an airing), むしぼし (airing out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | "람쐼. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | loayrt mychione (air, air views, comment), cheeree, aeral (air). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | airingay ato de arejar, ar fresco, ventilação (air-circulation, fanning, vent, ventilation). (various references) aerisire (aeration, ventilation), ventilare (spreading, ventilation), plimbare în aer liber. (various references) вентиляция (aeration, ventilation), прогулка (drive, excursion, jaunt, journey, outing, perambulation, promenade, ramble, ride, saunter, stroll, turn, walk), демонстрация (demo, demonstration). (various references) provetravanje (aeration, ventilation). (various references) ventilación (aeration, air-circulation, airiness, fanning, ventilation). (various references) vädring (aeration). (various references) açık etme, açığa vurma (apocalypse, disclosure, divulgation, divulgement, divulgence, giveaway, revelation, ventilation), ortaya dökme (apocalypse, divulgation), havalandırma (aeration, air conditioning, blower, fanner, ventilating, ventilation), hava alma, gezinti (excursion, hike, jaunt, outing, prom, promenade, ride, run, Sally, stroll, trip, walk, walking tour). (various references) вентиляція (ventilation, venting), просушивання, прогулянка (outleap, promenade, ramble, ride, round, saunter, stroll, tour), провітрювання (aeration), демонстрування (run). (various references) sự phơi khô sự dạo mát, sự phô trương (flaunt, ostentation, showiness, show-off, swank, swankiness), sự l m cho thoáng khí sự hong gió, sự hong khô, sự hóng mát. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "airing": airings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "airing": chairing, cochairing, deairing, despairing, fairing, glairing, impairing, lairing, pairing, repairing, unhairing, wairing. (additional references) | |
Words containing "airing": despairingly, fairings, pairings. (additional references) | |
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"Airing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aahing, Aarango, aerine, aining, airan, airean, airen, airi, Airin, airn, airon, arang, arbing, Arenig, Arifin, Arigna, aring, aurine, Azrin, dairing, eirian, Eirig, eiring, Eirinn, eyring, gairing, iating, iring, nairing, sairing, viring. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "airing" (pronounced e"ring) |
| 4 | e" r i ng | baring, bearing, blaring, caring, chairing, comparing, daring, declaring, despairing, flaring, glaring, haring, herring, impairing, overbearing, pairing, paring, preparing, repairing, scaring, sharing, snaring, sparing, squaring, staring, swearing, tearing, uncaring, 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 | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: garni, grain, iring. | |
-2 letters: agin, airn, gain, girn, gnar, gran, grin, inia, ragi, rain, rang, rani, ring. | |
-3 letters: ain, air, ani, gan, gar, gin, nag, rag, ran, ria, rig, rin. | |
-4 letters: ag, ai, an, ar, in, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: airings, airting, arising, fairing, ingrain, lairing, pairing, raiding, railing, raining, raising, wairing, zingari. | |
+2 letters: admiring, airthing, arginine, arriving, aspiring, attiring, braiding, brailing, braining, braising, chairing, dairying, deairing, draining, fairings, gainlier, glairing, grainier, graining, granitic, ignorami, imaginer, inarming, ingrains, migraine, original, pairings, pirating, praising, radioing, railings, raisings, ravining, reaginic, rigatoni, ringtail, rivaling, traiking, trailing, training, triaging, virginal. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 69 72 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .. .-. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101001 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A i r i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0069 0072 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357584758073 |
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