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Definition: Wading |
WadingNoun1. Walking with your feet in shallow water. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wading" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | If you wade in clear water while dreaming, you will partake of evanescent, but exquisite joys. If the water is muddy, you are in danger of illness, or some sorrowful experiences. To see children wading in clear water is a happy prognostication, as you will be favored in your enterprises. For a young woman to dream of wading in clear foaming water, she will soon gain the desire nearest her heart. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Waders Dunlin Calidris alpina
A calidrid waderScientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Charadriiformes Families Charadridae
Jacanidae
Rostratulidae
Ibidorhynchidae
Recurvirostridae
Haematopodidae
Scolopacidae
Dromadidae
Burhinidae
Glareolidae
ThinocoridaeWaders, called Shorebirds in North America (where "wader" is used to refer to long-legged wading birds such as storks and herons), are members of the Charadriiformes order of birds, but excluding the more marine web-footed seabird groups. The latter are the skuas (Stercoraracidae), gulls (Laridae), terns (Sternidae), skimmers (Rhynchopidae), sheathbill Chionididae and auks (Alcidae).
This leaves about 210 species, most of which are associated with wetland or coastal environments. Many species of Arctic and temperate regions are strongly migratory, but tropical birds are often resident, or move only in response to rainfall patterns. Some of the Arctic species, such Little Stint are amongst the longest distance migrants, wintering in the southern hemisphere
The majority of species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil. Different lengths of bills enable different species to feed in the same habitat, particularly on the coast, without direct competition for food.
Some larger species, particularly those adapted to drier habitats will take larger prey including insects and small reptiles. The pratincoles are aerial insect eaters, hunting like swallows.
Many of the smaller species found in coastal habitats, particularly but not exclusively the calidrids, are often named as "Sandpipers", but this term does not have a strict meaning, since the Upland Sandpiper is a grassland species.
The following shows the groups of Charadriiform birds normally classed as waders. The approximate number of species is in brackets.
The large family Scolopacidae is often further subdivided into groups of similar birds. These groups do not necessarily consist of a single genus. The groups are
- ORDER CHARADRIIFORMES
- Suborder Charadrii: waders
- Family Thinocoridae: seedsnipe
- Family Pedionomidae: Plains Wanderer
- Family Scolopacidae: snipe, sandpipers, phalaropes, and allies
- Family Rostratulidae: painted snipe
- Family Jacanidae: jacanas
- Family Chionididae: sheathbills
- Family Burhinidae: thick-knees
- Family Haematopodidae: oystercatchers
- Family Recurvirostridae: avocets
- Family Ibidorhynchidae: Ibisbill
- Family Charadriidae plovers and lapwings
- Family Pluvianellidae: Magellanic Plover
- Family Dromadidae: Crab Plover
- Family Glareolidae: pratincoles and coursers
- Suborder Lari: gulls and allies; 4 families
- Suborder Alcae: auks; 1 family
In the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, waders and many other groups are subsumed into a greatly enlarged order Ciconiiformes.
- Godwits (4, all genus Limosa)
- Curlews (8, all genus Numenius)
- Upland Sandpiper (1 genus Bartramia)
- Shanks and Tattlers (16)
- Polynesian sandpipers (2)
- Turnstones (2, both genus Arenaria)
- Phalaropes (3, all genus Phalaropus)
- Woodcocks (6, all genus Scolopax)
- Snipe (16)
- Dowitchers (3, all genus Limnodromus)
- Calidrids and allies (25, of which 20 in genus Calidris )
See also list of birds
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wader."
Crosswords: Wading |
| English words defined with "wading": aquatic bird, Aramus, Aramus guarauna, Aramus pictus, Australian stilt ♦ Burhinidae, Burnt umber, bustard, bustard quail, button quail, buttonquail ♦ Cariamidae, Ciconiiformes, courlan, Crane, Cultirostres ♦ Desmognathous ♦ family Burhinidae, family Cariamidae, flamingo, Ford, fording ♦ game bird, genus Aramus, godwit ♦ hemipode, Herodiones, Heron, Himantopus stilt ♦ ibis ♦ Jacana ♦ limicoline bird, limpkin, longlegs ♦ Macrodactyl ♦ order Ciconiiformes, Oyster catcher ♦ Palamedeae, Palmidactyles, Pedionomus torquatus, plain wanderer, Pressiroster ♦ rail, redshank ♦ sandpiper, shore bird, shorebird, spoonbill, stilt, stilt plover, stiltbird, stork ♦ Tringa totanus ♦ Vadantes ♦ Wood ibis. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "wading": coots, cranes ♦ fisher, sponge hooking, FISHER, TERRAPIN ♦ Ocean ♦ Snakes, SPONGE HOOKER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "wading": Wade. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Boys wading in stream in Puerto Rico despite sign on bank: "Danger - There is Bilharzia." Schistosomiasis. Credit: CDC. |  | Wading ashore off the ELSIE III. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | A seagull wading in the surf near the Edwin S. Taylor Fishing Pier. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Wading fishermen near Lovers Key. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Manton Keswick's Reservoir near Redding, California. Ore loading facility, Iron Mountain. The grey area by the concrete wall is spilled ore. Ore from Iron Mountain Mine was ground up at Minnesota Flats mill and carried over the mountains to wading facility. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve. Gulls and terns wading in the shallows. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Estuaries are important breeding and feeding areas for a variety of wading birds , including these great (yellow bills) and snowy egrets (black bills) on Pumpkinseed Island in Winyah Bay. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Wading ashore after disembarking from small boat at reef edge. Credit: Small World. |
 | Crew and scientists wading out to the launch for return to the ship at Isla Cocos National Park. Credit: Small World. |  | General Douglas MacArthur and aides wading ashore on Leyte, Philippine Islands. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Wading in the Pond" by Stephanie Summerfield Commentary: "This is my dog Hershey wading in my neighbor's pond." | "Pools in Winter" by Paige Foster Commentary: "Our apartment complex's swimming pool and wading pool, closed for the winter." |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He was wading in the hideous muck of the city |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He crossed the little stream, wading carelessly through the water, and Ma followed him. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Avoid swimming near or wading in marshy areas where snails are commonly found. (references) | |
Schistosoma parasites can penetrate the skin of persons who are wading, swimming, bathing, or washing in contaminated water. (references) | ||
The risk of acquiring leptospirosis can be greatly reduced by not swimming or wading in water that might be contaminated with animal urine. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Wading" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 94.51% of the time. "Wading" is used about 91 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) | 94.51% | 86 | 35,638 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.3% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.1% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.1% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 91 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "wading": wading bird ♦ wading crossing ♦ wading pool ♦ Wading River. 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. |
| Language | Translations for "wading"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zog këmbëgjatë (wader, wading bird). (various references) | |
Arabic | الطائر المخوض بحثا عن الطعام (wading bird), بركة الخوض (wading pool). (various references) | |
Chinese | 趟过 (Waded). (various references) | |
Czech | brodivý pták (wader, wading bird). (various references) | |
Danish | vadefugl (wading bird), stylteloeber (wader, wading bird), storkefugle (herons and kin, wading birds), passage over vadested (wading crossing), himantopus himantopus (wader, wading bird). (various references) | |
Dutch | waadvogel (wading bird), steltloper (wader, wading bird), steltkluut (wader, wading bird), reigerachtigen (herons and kin, wading birds), ooievaarachtigen (herons and kin, wading birds), himantopus himantopus (wader, wading bird). (various references) | |
French | pataugeage (Wade), barbotage. (various references) | |
German | watend, sich hindurcharbeitend. (various references) | |
Greek | καλοβάμονα (herons and kin, wading birds), καλοβατικά (herons and kin, wading birds), μακρόταρσα (herons and kin, wading birds). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שכשוך (dabbling, paddling, splash, splutter, squelch). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gázlómadár (stilt, wader, wading bird), átgázolás (wading crossing). (various references) | |
Italian | uccello di palude (wading bird), trampoliere (wader, wading bird), himantopus himantopus (wader, wading bird), ciconiformi (herons and kin, wading birds), cavaliere d'Italia (wader, wading bird). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 渡渉 (fording). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | としょう (fording, wade across). (various references) | |
Korean | 도섭. (various references) | |
Manx | shooylleyder (promenader, wader, wading bird). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adingway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | piscina para crianças (wading pool), pernilongo (crane-fly, daddy-long-legs, gnat, leggy, stilt), pernaltas (herons and kin, wading birds), perna-longa (wader, wading bird), limícola (wading bird), himantopus himantopus (wader, wading bird), ave pernalta (wader, wading bird). (various references) | |
Romanian | trecere prin vad. (various references) | |
Russian | идти вброд/ (waded). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | barska ptica (wader, wading bird, water bird, wildfowl). (various references) | |
Spanish | limícola (mud-living, wading bird), ave zancuda (wader, wading bird). (various references) | |
Swedish | vadarfågel (shore bird, wader, wading bird), vadare (wader, wading bird). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chim lội (wader, wading bird). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Ciconiiformes. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Wading" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: oading, waring, wasing, wazing, weading, weding, Yadin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "wading" (pronounced wā"ding) |
| 5 | w ā" d i ng | persuading. |
| 4 | -ā" d i ng | aiding, blockading, braiding, cascading, crusading, degrading, evading, fading, grading, invading, lading, masquerading, parading, pervading, raiding, serenading, shading, trading, upgrading. |
| 3 | -d i ng | applauding, apprehending, abounding, acceding, according, abiding, adding, affording, alluding, amending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, banding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handholding, handing, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, joyriding, kidding, kneading, landholding, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, pending, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, railroading, reading, rebounding, rebuilding, receding, recommending, recording, Redding, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, sending, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unloading, unwinding, unyielding, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wending, wielding, Wilding, winding, withholding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding, yielding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dawing. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-i-n-w" | |
-1 letter: awing, diwan, wigan. | |
-2 letters: agin, dang, dawn, ding, gadi, gain, gnaw, wadi, wain, wand, wind, wing. | |
-3 letters: aid, ain, and, ani, awn, dag, daw, dig, din, gad, gan, gid, gin, nag, naw, wad, wag, wan, wig, win. | |
-4 letters: ad, ag, ai, an, aw, id, in, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-i-n-w" | |
+1 letter: dawning, dawting, drawing, wadding, warding, windage, windbag. | |
+2 letters: awarding, awninged, dawdling, dewaxing, drawings, drawling, dwarfing, swarding, waddings, waddling, waddying, windages, windbags, windgall. | |
+3 letters: declawing, rawhiding, redrawing, rewarding, shadowing, swaddling, twaddling, undrawing, wandering, windgalls. | |
+4 letters: bedwarfing, dewatering, disavowing, drawlingly, drawstring, forwarding, hardwiring, landowning, misdrawing, outdrawing, stewarding, wadsetting, wanderings, wingspread. | |
+5 letters: becowarding, beshadowing, disallowing, downgrading, downloading, downplaying, downscaling, drawstrings, duckwalking, handwringer, handwriting, hardworking, landownings, misawarding, overdrawing, rewardingly, sandwiching, unrewarding, wildcatting, windjamming, windlassing, wingspreads, wiredrawing, withdrawing, woodcarving. | |
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