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Definition: BIRDING |
BIRDINGNoun1. Birdcatching or fowling. |
Date "BIRDING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1867. (references) |
Crosswords: BIRDING |
| English words defined with "BIRDING": Birding piece. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A 15-mile segment of Bonita Creek is part of a special area designated by Congress. Along with 23 miles of the Gila River, this creek is part of the Gila Box Riparian National Conservation Area. Popular for birding and picnicking opportunities, the area is located near Safford, Arizona.Credit: Unknown. |
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Economic History | Botswana | The country offers excellent game viewing and birding both in the Delta and in the Chobe Game Reserve--home to one of the largest herds of free-ranging elephants in the world. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "BIRDING": Birding piece. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
birding | 3,215 | birding by ear | 6 |
american birding association | 40 | birding optics | 6 |
birding binoculars | 27 | birding scope | 6 |
backyard birding | 20 | birding indiana | 5 |
birding tour | 18 | birding cruise | 4 |
costa rica birding | 16 | birding supply | 4 |
arizona birding | 16 | ontario birding | 4 |
panama birding | 13 | birding california digest email | 4 |
america birding central | 11 | thayer birding software | 4 |
minnesota birding | 10 | birding minnesota network | 4 |
birding darien | 10 | birding net | 4 |
texas birding | 10 | birding in lesvos | 4 |
bc birding | 9 | birding ohio | 4 |
birding company | 8 | birding carolina south | 4 |
bird birding | 8 | birding michigan | 3 |
birding software | 7 | belize birding | 3 |
birding binoculars review | 7 | american birding | 3 |
florida birding | 7 | birding holiday | 3 |
thayer birding | 7 | birding hotspots | 3 |
birding magazine | 6 | colorado birding | 3 |
birding maine | 3 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BIRDING": birdings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "BIRDING": blackbirding. (additional references) | |
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"BIRDING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bareding, Bildung, bioding, birden, bireing, Birjinni, birmin, bording, byrdsian. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "BIRDING" (pronounced 'Bird"ing'): Abearing, Aboding, Agoing, Awanting, Away-going, Awning, Aworking, Baaing, Ballooning, 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. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-g-i-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: biding, riding. | |
-2 letters: bindi, bring, grind, indri, iring, rigid. | |
-3 letters: bind, bird, brig, brin, ding, drib, gird, girn, grid, grin, irid, nidi, rind, ring. | |
-4 letters: bid, big, bin, dib, dig, din, gib, gid, gin, nib, rib, rid, rig, rin. | |
-5 letters: bi, id, in. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-g-i-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: birdings, braiding, bridging, bridling, dribbing, kingbird. | |
+2 letters: abridging, begirding, birdieing, braidings, bridgings, brigading, debriding, disrobing, dribbling, kingbirds, rebidding, rebinding. | |
+3 letters: bedirtying, begirdling, bestriding, birdliming, brigandine, broidering, debriefing, debruising, deorbiting, describing, disbarring, disbursing, disturbing, forbidding, highbinder, inbreeding, prebinding, rebuilding, redbaiting, unbraiding, unbridling, upbraiding. | |
+4 letters: barricading, bediapering, bedriveling, befriending, bewildering, brandishing, brigandines, broadsiding, debriefings, highbinders, hummingbird, hybridizing, inbreedings, misbranding, mockingbird, overbidding, windburning. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 49 52 44 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)01000010 01001001 01010010 01000100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B I R D I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0049 0052 0044 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)36435238434841 |
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