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Date "MISMATCHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | A deliberate choice of mismatch. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | In assembling veneers, a lack of symmetry as regards the figure, grain, colour, etc. , of adjacent pieces. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The imperfect alignment or fit at a joint between two adjoining pieces of timber worked to the same nominal cross-section. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: MISMATCHING |
| Specialty definitions using "MISMATCHING": Base Pair Mismatch. (references) |
| "MISMATCHING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "MISMATCHING" is used about 6 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) | 50% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "MISMATCHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | gab (General agreements to Borrow, General Arrangement to Borrow), fejltilpasning (mismatch), fejlparring. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | misaanpassing (mismatch), verkeerde samenvoeging, foutieve samenstelling. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | epäsovitus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | disposition dépareillée, disjonction, désadaptation (mismatch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | falsch anpassend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κακή προσαρμογή,κακή συναρμογή, κακή προσαρμογή (mismatch), τυχαία συναρμογή. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | squilibrio temporale, impiallacciatura asimmetrica, disadattamento (maladjustment), disaccoppiamento, aggiustamento difettoso. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ismatchingmay disposição desemparelhada/desirmanada, disjunção (disjunction), desadaptacao (mismatch). (various references) рассогласование (misalignment, off-calibration, unbalance). (various references) desequilibrado (lopsided, off one's balance, one sided, unbalanced, unreasonable), desajuste (breakdown, disarrangement, gap, maladjustment). (various references) missanpassning (mismatch), felanpassning (mismatch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-i-i-m-m-n-s-t" | |
-2 letters: machinist, misacting, mismating. | |
-3 letters: actinism, giantism, histamin, isthmian, itchings, matching, minicams, mismatch, scamming, scathing, shamming, shimming, thiamins. | |
-4 letters: actings, animism, animist, cashing, casting, chasing, chiasmi, chiming, chitins, gnathic, hamming, hasting, histing, imagism, imagist, insight, intimas, isthmic, itching, maiming, mashing, masting, matings, miasmic, miching, minicam, misting, santimi, shaming, smiting, tachism, tahinis, thiamin, timings. | |
-5 letters: aching. | |
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