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Definition: Daydreaming |
DaydreamingNoun1. Absent-minded dreaming while awake. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "daydreaming" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1947. (references) |
Synonyms: DaydreamingSynonyms: air castle (n), castle in Spain (n), castle in the air (n), daydream (n), oneirism (n), reverie (n), revery (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inattention | Absent, abstracted, distrait; absentminded, lost; lost in thought, wrapped in thought; rapt, in the clouds, bemused; dreaming on other things, musing on other things; preoccupied, engrossed; (attentive); daydreaming, in a reverie; Noun: off one's guard; (inexpectant); napping; dreamy; caught napping. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Daydreaming |
| English words defined with "daydreaming": daydreamer ♦ woolgatherer. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Uh Listen, you, you daydreaming fool, what are you doing there? (A Shot in the Dark; writing credit: Marcel Achard; William Peter Blatty) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Daydreaming with Laraine (1951) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | But when faced with material they find difficult, they tend to withdraw into quiet daydreaming. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Daydreaming" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 76.92% of the time. "Daydreaming" is used about 26 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) | 76.92% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (proper) | 15.38% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
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 |
daydreaming | 62 |
daydreaming pooh | 7 |
daydreaming lyrics | 3 |
daydreaming teenager | 3 |
beulah daydreaming | 2 |
daydreaming painting | 2 |
daydreaming psychology | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "daydreaming"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vegim (dream, mirage, phantom, vision). (various references) | |
Chinese | 作白日梦 (Daydream). (various references) | |
German | träumerei (daydream, dreaming, reverie). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pengelamunan (musing). (various references) | |
Manx | dreamal laa (daydream). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aydreamingday.(various references) | |
Russian | мечтать мечтание. (various references) | |
Swedish | dagdrömmande. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "daydreaming" (pronounced dā"drē'ming) |
| 5 | -r ē' m i ng | mainstreaming. |
| 3 | -m i ng | acclaiming, affirming, aiming, alarming, arming, assuming, barnstorming, beaming, becoming, blaming, blooming, blossoming, bombing, booming, bottoming, brainstorming, brimming, calming, charming, claiming, climbing, combing, coming, condemning, confirming, conforming, consuming, cramming, damming, damning, deprogramming, diagraming, dimming, disarming, disclaiming, dooming, dreaming, drumming, dumbing, embalming, exclaiming, farming, filming, firebombing, firming, flaming, foaming, forming, forthcoming, framing, fuming, gaming, gleaming, gloaming, grooming, harming, heartwarming, helming, hemming, homecoming, homing, humming, incoming, inflaming, informing, jamming, lambing, lemming, liming, looming, maiming, misinforming, mushrooming, naming, nonperforming, numbing, oncoming, outperforming, overcoming, overwhelming, performing, plumbing, presuming, priming, proclaiming, programing, programming, ramming, reaffirming, rearming, reclaiming, redeeming, reforming, renaming, reprogramming, resuming, rhyming, roaming, rooming, scheming, screaming, seeming, shaming, shortcoming, skimming, slamming, slimming, squirming, steaming, stemming, storming, streaming, strumming, succumbing, summing, swarming, swimming, taming, teaming, teeming, terming, thumbing, timing, transforming, trimming, unassuming, unbecoming, upcoming, vacuuming, warming, welcoming, zooming. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-e-g-i-m-n-r-y" | |
-2 letters: diagramed, marinaded. | |
-3 letters: dairyman, dairymen, daydream, drainage, dreading, dreaming, gardenia, grandame, granddam, margined, marinade, midrange, mridanga, readding, readying. | |
-4 letters: admired, anergia, araneid, damaged, damager, dandier, daymare, deraign, diagram, drained, dramedy, drayage, draying, drayman, draymen, eddying, germina, gradine, grained, grandad, grandam, grandma, grinded, imagery, inarmed, madding, madeira, managed, manager, mangier, midyear, radding, reading, reaming, redding, yardage, yarding, yardman, yardmen. | |
-5 letters: adding, admire, agenda, aidman, aidmen, airman, airmen, anadem, anemia, anergy, angary, aramid, arming, daimen, damage, damned, damner, dander, danged, danger, daring, darned, degami, demand, denari, denary, diadem, digamy, dinged, dinger, dingey, drayed, dreamy, drying, dyeing, earing, engird, engram, enigma, gadder, gained, gainer, gamier, gamine, gander, garden, german, girded, girned, graded, gradin, grainy, grayed, grided, grimed, imaged, imager, madden, madder, maenad, magian, maiden, maigre, manage, manger, mangey, margay, margin, marina, marine, maying, mediad, median, medina, midday, midden, minded, minder, mirage, myriad, radian, ragman, ragmen, raided, rained, ranged, raying, reagin, reding, regain, regina, remain, remand, remind, ridden, ridged, rinded, ringed, yarded, yarned. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 61 79 64 72 65 61 6D 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 01111001 01100100 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D a y d r e a m i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0061 0079 0064 0072 0065 0061 006D 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)3867917084716779758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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