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VAMPING

Definition: VAMPING

VAMPING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Vamp

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "VAMPING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1867. (references)



Specialty Definitions: VAMPING

DomainDefinitions

Mining

The debris of a stope, which forms a hard mass under the feet of a miner. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms by domain: loose-line vamping (industry), vamping on the flat.

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Crosswords: VAMPING

English words defined with "VAMPING": Recoction. (references)

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Modern Usage: VAMPING

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Vamping Venus (1928)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: VAMPING

Computer Images:
VAMPING

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Usage Frequency: VAMPING

"VAMPING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "VAMPING" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)66.67%2245,945
Noun (singular)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: VAMPING

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "VAMPING": re-vamping.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: VAMPING

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

vamping

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: VAMPING

Language Translations for "VAMPING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

neppend, improvisierend (improvising). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ערפו×" (vamp, vampirism). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ampingvay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: VAMPING

Derivations

Words ending with "VAMPING": revamping. (additional references)


Misspellings

"VAMPING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amping, Pampanga, vampi, varming. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: VAMPING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-i-m-n-p-v"

-1 letter: paving.

-2 letters: aping, gamin, mavin, pavin.

-3 letters: agin, amin, gain, gamp, gimp, magi, main, mina, nipa, pain, pang, pian, pima, pina, ping, vagi, vain, vamp, vang, viga, vina.

-4 letters: aim, ain, ami, amp, ani, gam, gan, gap, gin, gip, imp, mag, man, map, mig, nag, nam, nap, nim, nip, pam, pan, pia, pig, pin, van, via, vig, vim.

-5 letters: ag, ai, am, an, in, ma, mi, na, pa, pi.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-i-m-n-p-v"
 

+2 letters: revamping.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: VAMPING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 41 4D 50 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...-    .-    --    .--.    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01000001 01001101 01010000 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#65 &#77 &#80 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0041 004D 0050 0049 004E 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

56354750434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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