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Definitions: Scheming |
SchemingAdjective1. Used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community". 2. Concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest; "a selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark schemes of European intrigue"- W.Churchill; "a scheming wife"; "a scheming gold digger". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scheming" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: SchemingSynonyms: calculating (adj), calculative (adj), conniving (adj), designing (adj), shrewd (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Scheming |
| English words defined with "scheming": ambidextrous, angler ♦ Byzantine ♦ deceitful, Designful, designing, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous ♦ Janus-faced, Jezebel ♦ King Lear ♦ Lear ♦ two-faced ♦ wangle, wangling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "scheming": Delay, Doomsday ♦ Shop ♦ Voucher, Vultures. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "scheming": Designful. (references) |
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Screenplays | Your constant scheming gives me even more of a headache! (Gladiator; writing credit: David Franzoni) You're just a hard, scheming old woman, aren't you? (The Man from Laramie; writing credit: Thomas T. Flynn; Philip Yordan) | |
Lyrics | While he was scheming ("Hit 'em up Style (Oops!)"; performing artist: Blu Cantrell) Scheming, plannin' lies to get what you need ("Black Cat"; performing artist: Janet Jackson) Well I couldn't put up with your scheming ("Don't Think I'm Not"; performing artist: Kandi) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Scheming Schemers (1956) | |
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| "Scheming" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 57.38% of the time. "Scheming" is used about 61 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) | 57.38% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 22.95% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (singular) | 18.03% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.64% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 61 | 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 |
scheming | 3 |
pal pay scheming | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "scheming"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ماكر (artful, crafty, cunning, deceitful, deep, designing, disingenuous, feline, foxlike, foxy, furtive, guileful, malicious, pawky, politic, sharper, slick, slim, sly, smart, subtle, trick, vulpine, wily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 策' (Contrive, Contrived, Contriving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vehkeilevä (designing), juonikas (crafty, plotting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | intrigant (schemer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ränkevoll (caballing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μηχανορραφία (machination). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "ת כלות (devising, plotting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tervezés (cast, contemplation, design, designing, planning, projection, shaping), intrikus (backbiter, intimate, schemer), intrika (intrigue, machination), cselszövés (intrigue, plot, plotting, scheme), áskálódó (intriguing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | intrigante (busybody, designing, intrigant, intriguant, intriguing, machinator, meddler, piquant, schemer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 腹'い (malicious, mean). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | はらぐろい (malicious, mean). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 계획 (envisioning, intentional, PLAN, Planning, PLANS, Projecting, Projet, schedule, scheduling, scheme). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cummeydaght (ableness, inventiveness), croutagh (calculating, crafty, devious, subtle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emingschay urzealã (netting, structure, texture, tissue, warp), proiect (contemplation, counsel, design, designing, device, draft, draught, idea, plan, project, projection, proposal, scheme), plan (contrivance, counsel, design, device, disposition, draft, even, idea, intention, level, map, meaning, outline, plain, plan, plane, program, programme, project, proposal, schedule, scheme, skeleton, syllabus, tabular), intrigant (designer, designing, intrigant, intriguer, intriguing, manoeuvrer, mischief maker, plotter, scandal monger, schemer, wire puller), intrigã (action, cabal, designing, intrigue, machination, noise, plot, scheme). (various references) планировать (glide, plan out, plane, pre-arrange, schedule, schemed, soar). (various references) intrigantski (intrigant). (various references) intrigante (designing, intriguant, intriguing, machinator, schemer). (various references) intrigspel, intrigant (intriguing, plotting), beräknande (calculating, designing). (various references) entrikacı (intriguer, intriguing, plotter, schemer), dolap çeviren. (various references) інтриги, планування (designing, mapping, planning). (various references) có mưu đ", có kế hoạch (planned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "scheming": outscheming. (additional references) | |
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"Scheming" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scheiming, schemeing, schemings, schiming, Schimone, schining, Schmink, schneeman, Schneemann, Schukin, schwering, schwing, Schwinge, Shemin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "scheming" (pronounced skē"ming) |
| 4 | -ē" m i ng | beaming, dreaming, gleaming, redeeming, screaming, seeming, steaming, streaming, teaming, teeming. |
| 3 | -m i ng | acclaiming, affirming, aiming, alarming, arming, assuming, barnstorming, becoming, blaming, blooming, blossoming, bombing, booming, bottoming, brainstorming, brimming, calming, charming, claiming, climbing, combing, coming, condemning, confirming, conforming, consuming, cramming, damming, damning, daydreaming, deprogramming, diagraming, dimming, disarming, disclaiming, dooming, drumming, dumbing, embalming, exclaiming, farming, filming, firebombing, firming, flaming, foaming, forming, forthcoming, framing, fuming, gaming, gloaming, grooming, harming, heartwarming, helming, hemming, homecoming, homing, humming, incoming, inflaming, informing, jamming, lambing, lemming, liming, looming, maiming, mainstreaming, misinforming, mushrooming, naming, nonperforming, numbing, oncoming, outperforming, overcoming, overwhelming, performing, plumbing, presuming, priming, proclaiming, programing, programming, ramming, reaffirming, rearming, reclaiming, reforming, renaming, reprogramming, resuming, rhyming, roaming, rooming, shaming, shortcoming, skimming, slamming, slimming, squirming, stemming, storming, strumming, succumbing, summing, swarming, swimming, taming, terming, thumbing, timing, transforming, trimming, unassuming, unbecoming, upcoming, vacuuming, warming, welcoming, zooming. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-g-h-i-m-n-s" | |
-1 letter: meshing. | |
-2 letters: chimes, chines, eching, hemins, hinges, inches, inmesh, mensch, miches, minces, neighs, niches. | |
-3 letters: chime, chine, chins, cines, genic, hemic, hemin, hinge, mesic, miche, miens, mince, mines, neigh, niche, nighs, segni, sengi, shine, since, singe. | |
-4 letters: chin, chis, cigs, cine, egis, emic, engs, gems, gens, ghis, gien, gies, gins, hems, hens, hies, hins, hisn, ices, ichs, inch, megs, mesh, mice, mien, migs, mine, mise, nice, nigh, nims, semi, shim, shin, sice, sigh, sign, sine, sing, sinh. | |
-5 letters: chi, cig, cis, ems, eng, ens, gem, gen, ghi, gie, gin, hem, hen, hes, hic, hie, him, hin, his, ice, ich, ins, ism, meg, men, mig, mis, nim, sec, seg, sei, sen, she, sic, sim, sin. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-g-h-i-m-n-s" | |
+2 letters: schmeering. | |
+3 letters: besmirching, charmingest, homecomings, misteaching, outscheming. | |
+4 letters: chemisorbing, gemeinschaft, hemstitching, schematizing. | |
+5 letters: benchmarkings, gemeinschafts, histaminergic, homeschooling, merchandising, mischanneling. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 68 65 6D 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. .... . -- .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01101000 01100101 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c h e m i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0068 0065 006D 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5369747179758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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