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| Domain | Definition |
Mining | The deliberate act or process of deflecting and redrilling the lower partof a borehole away from a previous course. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SIDETRACKING |
| Etymologies containing "SIDETRACKING": sidetrack. (references) |
| "SIDETRACKING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SIDETRACKING" is used about 2 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) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "SIDETRACKING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 转变话题 (Sidetracked). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | værktøj til retningsboring (deflecting tools, foot shoe, guide shoe, sidetracking tools). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | afbuigwerktuig (deflecting tools, sidetracking tools). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sivuunporaustyökalut (deflecting tools, sidetracking tools). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | outils de déviation (sidetracking tools). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ablenkungsgeräte (deflecting tools, sidetracking tools). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εργαλεία εκτροπής (deflecting tools, sidetracking tools), εργαλεία απόκλισης (deflecting tools, sidetracking tools). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 회"함. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | idetrackingsay instrumentos de deflexão (deflecting tools, sidetracking tools), ferramentas de deflexão (deflecting tools, sidetracking tools). (various references) отводить на запасный путь (sidetracked). (various references) herramientas de desviación (deflecting tools, sidetracking tools). (various references) verktyg för riktningsborrning (deflecting tools, sidetracking tools). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-g-i-i-k-n-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: restacking. | |
-3 letters: acridines, actinides, andesitic, astringed, casketing, crankiest, crediting, dackering, daikering, deticking, dicentras, dickering, digastric, directing, disrating, gradients, grainiest, indicates, indicters, racketing, raticides, recasting, redacting, reindicts, retacking, screaking, seriating, sidetrack, streaking, trackings, trackside. | |
-4 letters: acridest, acridine, actinide, adenitis, agrestic, angriest, anticked, antiskid, argentic, astringe, canister, canities, cardings, carditis, catering, ceratins, cigarets, cisterna, citrines. | |
| 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. | |
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