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Definition: Frosting |
FrostingNoun1. A flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "frosting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1864. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | The detrimental whitish appearance of the surface of coloured textiles produced by differential coloration or wear. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Formation of a large number of very fine wrinkles, in the form of either polygons or cobwebs on the film surface. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A lusterless ground-glass or mat surface on rounded mineral grains, esp. of quartz. It may result from innumerable impacts of other grains during wind action or from deposition of many microscopic crystals; e.g., fine silica secondarily deposited on quartz grains e.g., fine silica secondarily deposited on quartz grains. (references) |
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Synonyms: FrostingSynonyms: ice (n), icing (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: chalked (industry, meteorology & standards), chalking. |
Crosswords: Frosting |
| English words defined with "frosting": bridecake ♦ coconut cake ♦ frost ♦ ice ♦ layer cake ♦ wedding cake. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "frosting": SUPERVISOR, CEREAL. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Elaine, do you have any idea what happens to a butter-based frosting after sitting 60 years in a poorly ventilated English basement? (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) And by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting from sweating and sweet talcum. (To Kill a Mockingbird; writing credit: Harper Lee; Horton Foote) | |
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| "Frosting" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Frosting" 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 26 | 68,323 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "frosting": sugar-frosting. | |
| 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 "frosting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përpunim për ta bërë të marrtë, krem ëmbëlsirash (icing, icing sugar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تجميد (solidification), صقيع (freeze, frost, frostiness, jack frost, rime). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "霜 (frosted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | ledová poleva. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | frosting effekt, frosteffekt, syremattering (acid embossing, acid frosting, obscuring), isblomstdannelse, isaetsning, gråligt slør, affarvning/mattering (chalking, whitening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | frosting, rijpeffect, matteren (acid embossing, acid frosting, matting, obscuring, powdering), ijs-etsen, ijsbloemvorming, grauwsluier. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | valkaisu (bleaching, chalking, dealbation, fading, whitening), valkaiseminen (chalking, whitening), pintakiteytyminen, mattaetsi (acid embossing, acid frosting, obscuring), mattaetsaus (acid embossing, acid frosting, obscuring), jääsyövytys, jääkukkaefekti, jääetsaus, happomattaus (acid embossing, acid frosting, obscuring), haalistuminen (bleaching, dealbation, fading). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | matage l'acide (acid frosting), glace, glaçage, givrage, dépolissage l'acide (acid frosting), blanchissement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mit Eis überziehend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ξάσπρισμα (chalking, whitening), ματάρισμα με οξύ (acid embossing, acid frosting, obscuring), πάχνισμα, φθορίωση (chronic fluorine intoxication, fluorosis, use of fluoride), ζαχαροαλοιφή, ανεπιθύμητο χιονέ, θάμπωμα (blinding, bloom, blooming, delustring, dulling, fogging, staining, tarnishing, weathering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | עמום (abstruse, dim, faint, fuzzy, muzzy, obscure, obtuse, opaque, tarnish, vague). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | glazúr (glaze), cukorbevonat (icing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | glazur (cake frosting, glazing, tooth enamel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Smerigliatura (check, crizzle, sanding, skin crack, smoothing, vent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 霜降り (gray, grey, salt and pepper colour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しもふり (gray, grey, salt and pepper colour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 서리로 덥음. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ostingfray foscagem a ácido (acid embossing, acid frosting, obscuring), foscagem, glacialmente (acidly, icily), geada (freeze, freezing cold, frost, Hoar, hoarse, rime), enrugamento (corrugation, shrinkage, wrinkle), embaciamento (Mattock). (various references) glazurã (glaze, glazing, ice, icing). (various references) глазировка. (various references) inje (hoar, hoarfrost, hoar-frost, rime), glazura (cake ice, glaze, topping, varnish, veneer). (various references) frío (bleak, chill, chilly, cold, cool, distant, frigid, frosted, frosty, Parky, sharp, spent, stiff, uncommunicative), mateado al ácido (acid embossing, acid frosting, obscuring), esmerilado al ácido (acid embossing, acid frosting, obscuring), escarchado (frosted, frosty, glace, iced), deslustrado (dingy, dull, ground, lacklustre), desgaste por fricción (bead, chafing, chalking, scuffing, whitening), azúcar glaceado. (various references) frosting, frosteffekt, frostbildning (frost formation), förgråning, färgändring vid nötning (chalking, whitening), syramattning (acid embossing, acid frosting, obscuring), nötningsbetingad förgråning, mattetsning (acid embossing, acid frosting, obscuring), matt yta (mat), isetsning, isblomsbildning, glasyr (glaze, glazing, icing), glasering (glazing, icing). (various references) น้ำตาลไอซิ่งบนขนมเค้กที่ทำมาจากน้ำเชื่อมและไข่ขาว. (various references) buzlu yüz, şekerli beyaz karışım. (various references) іній (Hoar, hoarfrost, rime), глазурування (icing), заморожування (ceiling, freeze, freezing, icing, refrigeration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "frosting": frostings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "frosting": defrosting. (additional references) | |
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"Frosting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fresing, Frosine, frosten, frostin, Frosztega, frotting, frowsting. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "frosting" (pronounced frô"sting) |
| 7 | f r ô" s t i ng | defrosting. |
| 5 | -ô" s t i ng | costing, exhausting. |
| 4 | -s t i ng | accosting, adjusting, arresting, assisting, attesting, besting, blacklisting, blasting, boasting, boosting, breasting, broadcasting, bursting, busting, casting, coasting, coexisting, composting, consisting, contesting, contrasting, cresting, delisting, digesting, disgusting, divesting, dusting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, everlasting, existing, fasting, feasting, forecasting, gusting, harvesting, Hasting, hoisting, hosting, ingesting, insisting, interesting, investing, jousting, lambasting, lasting, listing, lusting, manifesting, molesting, nesting, ousting, pasting, persisting, posting, preexisting, protesting, readjusting, recasting, reinvesting, requesting, resisting, resting, retesting, roasting, rusting, suggesting, tasting, testing, thrusting, toasting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, uninteresting, vesting, wasting, wresting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, annotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, associating, attempting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, betting, biting, bitting, blanketing, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boating, bolting, booting, boycotting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coating, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contracting, contradicting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, faulting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, hating, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, homeporting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lamenting, laminating, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, malting, mandating, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, 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, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, rerouting, resenting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, thermosetting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-i-n-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: forints, sorting, storing, trigons. | |
-2 letters: forint, fortis, fronts, girons, gonifs, grifts, griots, grison, groins, ingots, intros, nitros, rosing, signor, soring, stingo, string, strong, tigons, trigon, trigos. | |
-3 letters: finos, firns, first, foins, foist, fonts, forts, frigs, frits, frogs, frons, front, frost, gifts, girns, giron, giros, girts, gonif, grift, grins, griot, grist, grits, groin, grots. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-i-n-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: foresting, fostering, frostings, frowsting. | |
+2 letters: defrosting, fingerpost, fortnights, fosterling. | |
+3 letters: afforesting, deforesting, figurations, fingerposts, forecasting, foretasting, fortressing, fosterlings, frostbiting, isografting, postforming, reforesting. | |
+4 letters: forestalling, frostbitings, fulgurations, overstaffing, overstuffing, rustproofing, sportfishing, transforming, transmogrify. | |
+5 letters: argentiferous, deflagrations, discomforting, flowchartings, flugelhornist, fortnightlies, frontogenesis, garnetiferous, reafforesting, sportfishings, waterfowlings. | |
| 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)46 72 6F 73 74 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .-. --- ... - .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110010 01101111 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F r o s t i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0072 006F 0073 0074 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4084818586758073 |
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