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Definition: Darting |
DartingAdjective1. Moving forward suddenly and swiftly. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "darting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Crosswords: Darting |
| English words defined with "darting": Accidental lights, Accipiter cooperii, Arrowy ♦ blue darter, Bolting ♦ Cooper's hawk ♦ Gleamy ♦ Jaculatory ♦ Rayonnant. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "darting": fulmination. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | It looked as if ten thousand flashes of lightning were darting at the same time from every quarter of the sky. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Darting" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 94.03% of the time. "Darting" is used about 134 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) | 94.03% | 126 | 28,512 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.48% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.75% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.75% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 134 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "darting" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Darting | Last name | 100 | 73,824 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
animal darting | 7 |
darting | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "darting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i vrullshëm (blusterous, blustery, convulsive, dashing, drastic, explosive, impetuous, rash, rattling, spasmodic, sudden, sweeping, tearaway, tearing, thrifty, vehement, vigorous). (various references) | |
Chinese | 投掷 (Darted, Pelted, Pelting, slinging, Slung, Threw, throw, Throwing, thrown, thrown-away, Throw-off). (various references) | |
Czech | hozený. (various references) | |
German | schleudernd (centrifuging, flinging, hurling, slinging, tossing). (various references) | |
Italian | dardeggiante. (various references) | |
Korean | 다트을 던짐. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | artingday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | esforçado (diligent, hardworking, industrious, strenuous). (various references) | |
Russian | стремительный (impetuous, rash, rathe, sweeping, tearaway). (various references) | |
Scottish | treaghaid (a darting pain, darting pain, stitch). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | strelovit (swift). (various references) | |
Spanish | rápido (agile, chute, express, express train, fast, fast train, fasting, fleeting, heel bar, live, lively, nippy, prompt, quick, quick fire, quick-firing, rapid, rapids, rathe, rattling, riffle, shoot, short, slapping, slashing, slick, snappy, spanking, speedy, swift, swift-flowing, twinkling). (various references) | |
Swedish | snabb (adroit, clipping, double quick, expeditious, express, fast, fleet, fleeting, hurried, lightsome, precipitatious, precipitous, presto, rapid, ready, smart, spanking, swift), häftig (ardent, be furious, blustery, excessive, explosive, exquisite, ferocious, fierce, flaming, fulminant, furious, groovy, gusty, heady, heavy, impetuous, intense, irascible, jazzy, keen, passionate, quick, quick tempered, rude, smart, throe, vehement, violent, virulent, volcanic). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | iacula, iaculi, iaculis, iaculo, iaculum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "darting": updarting. (additional references) | |
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"Darting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: daitling, Dantzig, D'arpino, Darrig, darring, Darshan, Dartons, datings, Datini, dauting, Derring, dorting, fartynge, Kartidg, karting, tarting. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "darting" (pronounced dÄ"rting) |
| 5 | -Ä" r t i ng | carting, charting, departing, imparting, marting, parting, restarting, smarting, starting. |
| 4 | -r t i ng | aborting, cavorting, consorting, courting, deporting, distorting, escorting, exhorting, exporting, extorting, homeporting, importing, nonsporting, porting, purporting, reporting, resorting, shorting, snorting, sorting, sporting, supporting, thwarting, transporting, underreporting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, accosting, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, adjusting, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, annotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, arresting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, assisting, associating, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, castigating, casting, castrating, catapulting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, composting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consisting, consolidating, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, delisting, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, depicting, depleting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disgusting, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, dusting, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, everlasting, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhilarating, existing, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, extenuating, exterminating, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, hosting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingesting, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, investing, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, laminating, lasting, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, listing, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, lusting, malting, mandating, manifesting, manipulating, marketing, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, nesting, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, pasting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, posting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, pulsating, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, readjusting, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, recasting, 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, reinvesting, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, representing, reprinting, repudiating, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resonating, respecting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, rusting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smelting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, speculating, spitting, splitting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, toasting, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: trading. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-i-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: daring, dating, gradin, gratin, rating, taring. | |
-2 letters: dinar, drain, garni, giant, grain, grand, grant, grind, nadir, ranid, riant, tragi, train, triad. | |
-3 letters: adit, agin, airn, airt, anti, arid, dang, darn, dart, ding, dint, dirt, dita, drag, drat, gadi, gain, gait, gird, girn, girt, gnar, gnat, grad, gran, grat, grid, grin, grit, nard, ragi, raid, rain, rand, rang, rani, rant, rind, ring, tain, tang, tarn, ting, trad, trig. | |
-4 letters: aid, ain, air, ait, and, ani, ant, art, dag, dig, din, dit, gad, gan, gar, gat, gid, gin, git, nag, nit, rad, rag, ran, rat, ria, rid, rig, rin, tad, tag, tan, tar, tin. | |
-5 letters: ad, ag, ai, an, ar, at, id, in, it, na, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-i-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: antidrug, dartling, derating, drafting, dratting, gradient, redating, treading. | |
+2 letters: adverting, astringed, denigrate, departing, deratting, dignitary, disrating, draftings, gradating, gradation, gradients, granitoid, gratineed, hydrating, indagator, ingrafted, integrand, outdaring, predating, radiating, redacting, retarding, stranding, threading, traducing, tragedian, treadling, updarting. | |
+3 letters: abridgment, bartending, centigrade, deaerating, decorating, denaturing, denigrated, denigrates, denigrator, depurating, derogating, derogation, designator, detracting, detraining, dewatering, disparting, draughting, drawstring, eradiating, federating, foredating, germinated, gradations, graduating, graduation, guarantied, indagators, indurating, ingathered, integrands, integrated, intergrade, marginated, moderating, mordanting, originated, outdrawing, outreading, outtrading, quadrating, radicating, readapting, readopting, redbaiting, redrafting, retreading, stewarding, straddling, tragedians, transuding, untreading. | |
+4 letters: abridgement, abridgments, accrediting, adumbrating, adventuring, advertising, advertizing, aggradation, degradation, dehydrating, demarcating, denervating, denigrating, denigration, denigrative, denigrators, denigratory, deprecating, depredating, derogations, desecrating, designators, designatory, deuterating, diffracting, dignitaries, distracting, distraining, dramatising, dramatizing, drawstrings, drumbeating, eradicating, extraditing, gradational, graduations, grandiosity, handwriting, impregnated, inaugurated, ingratiated, ingratitude, intergraded, intergrades, invigorated, irradiating, motorcading, nearsighted, outdragging, outdreaming, overtrading, plantigrade, preadapting, preadopting, predicating, readdicting, readjusting, readmitting, redefeating, reeducating, rehydrating, remediating, repudiating, reradiating, rethreading, ringstraked, tragedienne, transducing, underacting, undereating, underrating, undertaking, undertaxing, unirrigated, unthreading, vanguardist, withdrawing. | |
+5 letters: abridgements, adulterating, advertisings, aggradations, androgenetic, bastardising, bastardizing, broadcasting, coordinating, decelerating, deflagrating, deflagration, degenerating, degeneration, degenerative, degradations, deliberating, demagnetizer, denigrations, depreciating, deracinating, deregulating, deregulation, derivatizing, desiderating, disagreement, disintegrate, dissertating, divaricating, drumbeatings, edulcorating, fluoridating, fragmentized, freestanding, glycerinated, godfathering, gonadotropic, gonadotropin, granodiorite, handcrafting, handwritings, hardstanding, heartrending, ingratitudes, ingurgitated, interchanged, intergrading, intergrafted, interlarding, interrogated, kindergarten, laryngitides, nonirrigated, outbargained, outorganized, outspreading, peregrinated, plantigrades, preadmitting, predesignate, propagandist, redecorating, rededicating, redintegrate, reintegrated, renegotiated, retrograding, revalidating, sidetracking, starboarding, straightened, stridulating, stringhalted, trademarking, tragediennes, transcending, transfigured, triangulated, undercoating, understating, undertakings, ungerminated, unintegrated, vanguardists. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 61 72 74 69 6E 67 |
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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)01000100 01100001 01110010 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D a r t i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0061 0072 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)38678486758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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