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Definition: Darkening |
DarkeningAdjective1. Becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over; "the darkening sky". Noun1. Changing to a darker color. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "darkening" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Note: Darkening \Dark"en*ing\, noun. Twilight; gloaming. [Prov. Eng. & Scottish]. (references) |
Synonym: DarkeningSynonym: blackening (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Darkening |
| English words defined with "darkening": black rot ♦ Cerargyrite ♦ Fuscation ♦ hyperpigmentation ♦ Infuscation ♦ Obtenebration, Obumbration. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "darkening": Densitometry, X-Ray ♦ limb darkening ♦ Out ♦ pleochroic halo, Potatoes. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Darkening Trail (1915) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | But at this ineffable hour, it was only a little shadow, a darkening, and she had so much joy that this cloud was of short duration |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He pressed his face against the pane of the window and gazed out into the darkening street |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The men stirred restively, and they studied the darkening ground in front of their knees |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It is mediated by a combination of immediate pigment darkening (IPD) and delayed pigment darkening (DPD). IPD is caused by UVA and is due to photo-oxidation of preformed melanin. (references) | |
With external radiation, there may be permanent darkening or "bronzing" of the skin in the treated area. In addition, it is common to have temporary hair loss in the treated area and for the skin to become red, dry, tender, and itchy. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OUT-:OF:-:DOORS:, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets. I climbed to the top of a mountain one day To see the sun setting in glory, And I thought, as I looked at his vanishing ray, Of a perfectly splendid story. 'Twas about an old man and the ass he bestrode Till the strength of the beast was o'ertested; Then the man would carry him miles on the road Till Neddy was pretty well rested. The moon rising solemnly over the crest Of the hills to the east of my station Displayed her broad disk to the darkening west Like a visible new creation. And I thought of a joke (and I laughed till I cried) Of an idle young woman who tarried About a church-door for a look at the bride, Although 'twas herself that was married. To poets all Nature is pregnant with grand Ideas -- with thought and emotion. I pity the dunces who don't understand The speech of earth, heaven and ocean. Stromboli Smith |
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| "Darkening" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 51.35% of the time. "Darkening" is used about 185 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) | 51.35% | 95 | 33,629 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 42.16% | 78 | 37,656 |
| Noun (singular) | 6.49% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 185 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "darkening": Skin darkening. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "darkening": fast-darkening, sky-darkening. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "darkening"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | terrinë (darkness), ngrysje (gloaming, scowl), i errësuar (bedimmed, darkling). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | затъмняване (adumbration), потъмняване (discoloration, discolouration, film, fogging, nigrescence). (various references) | |
Chinese | 弄暗 (Darken, Darkened). (various references) | |
Czech | zatemnìní (blackout, dim out, obscuration). (various references) | |
Danish | grad af mørkfarvning (extent of darkening), eksponderingsjastigheden paa det sted hvor filmens svaertning er maksimal (the exposure rate at the point of maximum film darkening). (various references) | |
Dutch | vertroebelingsmiddel (darkening agent, opacifier), graad van zwarting (extent of darkening), exposietempo op de plaats van de maximale zwarting (the exposure rate at the point of maximum film darkening). (various references) | |
Finnish | tummumisaste (darkening rate), tummenemisaste (extent of darkening), samennin (darkening agent, opacifier), mustumisaste (darkening rate). (various references) | |
French | obscurcissant, noircissement, assombrissement, assombrissant. (various references) | |
German | verfinsterung (eclipse), verdunklung (blacking out, blackout, blind, curtain, damaging, deepening, dimming, dulling, harming, obscuring, suppression of evidence), verdunkelnd (beclouding, dimming, obscuring, obscuringly). (various references) | |
Greek | συσκότιση (blackout, curfew, obfuscation). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עמעום (dimness, opacity), "תק"רות (obscuration), "ק"ר", "אפל" (blackout, obfuscation, obscuration). (various references) | |
Hungarian | megfeketedés, elsötétedés (lour), elhomályosulás (obscuration), elhomályosodás. (various references) | |
Indonesian | pengelaman (blackout (during air raid)). (various references) | |
Italian | oscuramento (blackout, dimming, obfuscation, obscuration, obscuring). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 暮れ行く (passing). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くれゆく (passing). (various references) | |
Korean | 어두워짐. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arkeningday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | obscurecimento (obfuscation, obscuration), escurecimento (blackening, browning). (various references) | |
Romanian | întunecare (darkness, dusk, gloominess, lower, sombreness). (various references) | |
Russian | потемнение. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zamračenje (blackout, dim out, obscuration). (various references) | |
Spanish | proceso de anochecer, oscurecimiento (blackout), anochecer (darkle, dusk, evening, gloaming, grow dark, nightfall, sundown). (various references) | |
Swedish | täckmedel (darkening agent, opacifier), svärtningsgrad (darkening rate, extent of darkening). (various references) | |
Turkish | karartma (blackout, dim out, obscuration). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | offuscatione. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "darkening": bedarkening. (additional references) | |
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"Darkening" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: barkening, darkenin, tokenyng. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "darkening" (pronounced dÄ"rkuning or dÄ"rkning) |
| 5 | -k u n i ng | awakening, beckoning, blackening, likening, quickening, reawakening, reckoning, sickening, slackening, thickening, weakening. |
| 4 | -u n i ng | apportioning, abandoning, auctioning, auditioning, bargaining, battening, bludgeoning, brightening, broadening, burdening, burgeoning, captioning, cautioning, championing, cheapening, christening, coarsening, commissioning, conditioning, cushioning, dampening, deadening, deafening, decommissioning, deepening, determining, disciplining, disheartening, disillusioning, enlightening, envisioning, examining, fashioning, fastening, fattening, flattening, freshening, frightening, functioning, gardening, glistening, happening, hardening, hastening, heartening, heightening, imagining, imprisoning, jettisoning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, listening, loosening, maddening, malfunctioning, margining, mentioning, motioning, opening, orphaning, pardoning, partitioning, petitioning, poisoning, positioning, provisioning, questioning, rationing, reasoning, reconditioning, reexamining, reopening, repositioning, ripening, ruining, saddening, sanctioning, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shortening, siphoning, softening, stationing, stiffening, straightening, strengthening, summoning, sweetening, threatening, tightening, toughening, unquestioning, vacationing, whitening, widening, worsening. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, awning, ballooning, banning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, boning, branning, brining, Browning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, careening, cartooning, chaining, chaperoning, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, cocooning, coining, combining, complaining, concerning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, dawning, declining, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disdaining, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, entertaining, evening, explaining, fanning, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, frowning, gaining, ginning, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, headlining, honing, Horning, housecleaning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, lightning, lining, loaning, machining, maintaining, Manning, meaning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, mourning, obtaining, opining, ordaining, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, penning, pertaining, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, postponing, preening, preplanning, pruning, quarantining, raining, realigning, reassigning, reclining, redefining, redesigning, redlining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, running, scanning, screening, shining, shunning, signing, sinning, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stoning, straining, streamlining, stunning, sunning, sustaining, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thinning, toning, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unreasoning, Vining, waning, warning, weaning, whining, wining, winning, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | apportioning, abstaining, abandoning, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-k-n-n-r" | |
-1 letter: kneading. | |
-2 letters: aginner, darking, darning, deaning, deraign, earning, engrain, gradine, grained, grannie, grinned, kerning, nardine, narking, nearing, ranking, reading, rending. | |
-3 letters: daiker, danger, danker, daring, darken, deking, denari, dinger, dinner, earing, ending, endrin, engird, gained, gainer, gander, garden, ginned, ginner, girned, gradin, inaner, kinder, kinged, kirned, narine, narked, rained, raking, ranged, ranked, reagin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-i-k-n-n-r" | |
+2 letters: bedarkening, undertaking. | |
+3 letters: kindergarten, undertakings. | |
+4 letters: kindergartens, kindergartner. | |
+5 letters: groundbreaking, kindergartener, kindergartners. | |
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