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GILLING

Specialty Definition: GILLING

DomainDefinition

Industry

Or preparing. . . . The purpose and principle of the gillinggoperation is to straighten and parallelize the fibers of the sliver in preparation for the ensuing combing operation. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: GILLING

Specialty definitions using "GILLING": BACK WASHERencircling gill net. (references)
Non-English Usage: "GILLING" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (roach).

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Usage Frequency: GILLING

"GILLING" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 90.48% of the time. "GILLING" is used about 21 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
Noun (proper)90.48%1980,337
Lexical Verb (-ing form)9.52%2245,945
                    Total100.00%21N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: GILLING

The following table summarizes the usage of "GILLING" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
GillingLast name17051,666
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: GILLING

Expression using "GILLING": gilling operation. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GILLING

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

rebecca gilling

9

gilling

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: GILLING

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

French

  

défeutrage (gilling operation). (various references)

   

German

  

ausnehmend (eminently, exceptional). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

illinggay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: GILLING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-g-i-i-l-l-n"

-3 letters: gill, ling, nill.

-4 letters: gig, gin, ill, lin, nil.

-5 letters: in, li.

 Words containing the letters "g-g-i-i-l-l-n"
 

+1 letter: gillying, gingelli, gingilli, grilling.

 

+2 letters: gingellis, gingillis, pillaging.

 

+3 letters: gigglingly, gimballing, gingellies, legalising, legalizing, negligible, negligibly, nigglingly, obligingly, signalling, tinglingly.

 

+4 letters: beguilingly, colligating, gallicizing, gillnetting, globalising, globalizing, highballing, legislating, lingeringly, slightingly, syllogizing.

 

+5 letters: allegorising, allegorizing, billingsgate, bullfighting, galligaskins, gallivanting, gigantically, glitteringly, guillotining, illegalizing, limelighting.

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

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage Frequency
3. Names: Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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