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Definition: CLAMMING |
CLAMMINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Clam |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A full moon portends spring tides and clamming season. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Clamming season opens on the Oregon coast. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Nuns clamming on Long Island. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "CLAMMING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CLAMMING" is used about 3 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) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
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. |
| Language | Translations for "CLAMMING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | hemmend (clogging, dwarfing, frustrating, inhibiting, inhibitory, obstructing, trigging). (various references) | ||||
Italian | impedente (clogging, obstructing). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 潮干狩り (shell gathering), 潮干狩 (shell gathering). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | しおひがり (shell gathering). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ammingclay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"CLAMMING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clambing, clammying, Klamin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-l-m-m-n" | |
-1 letter: calming, lamming. | |
-2 letters: gimmal, lacing, laming, lingam, macing, malign. | |
-3 letters: acing, algin, align, amnic, claim, clang, cling, gamic, gamin, liang, ligan, liman, linac, linga, magic, malic, manic. | |
-4 letters: agin, amin, anil, cain, calm, clag, clam, clan, gain, glia, glim, imam, laic, lain, lang, lima, limn, ling, magi, mail, maim, main, malm, mica, mina, nail. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-l-m-m-n" | |
+3 letters: megalomanic, misclaiming. | |
+4 letters: commandingly, megalomaniac. | |
+5 letters: communalizing, immunological, megalomaniacs, ungrammatical. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4C 41 4D 4D 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-.. .- -- -- .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001100 01000001 01001101 01001101 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C L A M M I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004C 0041 004D 004D 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)3746354747434841 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italienisch, italiano |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | japaner, japanisch, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ" |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | japaner, japanisch, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ" |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englisch, inglese |
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