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Date "STRAIGHTENING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1852. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | River engineering measures taken in order to straighten a watercourse. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Returning to the die after forging and clipping is completed to correct the shape. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Straightening steel - even the portable towers needed some maintenance Triangulation party of C. D. Meaney. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Straightening out one of the underwater transect lines used for counting fish. All fish ten feet to each side of the line were counted. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | Air Force Reservist Senior Airman Tom Kimball gets a hand straightening his tie from his son Airman Ben Kimball. Though he is 44 years old and the president of a successful multimedia production company, Ben's commitment to the Air Force inspired the elde. |  | Track straightening near Coal City. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mrs. M. LaBlanc straightening articles in corner of kitchen in present home. Note the waterstained walls caused by leaking roof. Morganza, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Production. Halftrac armoured cars. Straightening a piece of steel plate that will be used in the production of a body for a halftrac scout car. Great numbers of bodies are turned out in this plant, which formerly made locks and safes. Diebold Safe and Lo. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Barrel building. Straightening press for gun taken prior to machining. This is one of the operations speeded up for war work in an eastern arsenal. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Cote D'ivoire | In 1998, Cte d'Ivoire succeeded in straightening out its daunting debt problem for a brief period. (references) |
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| "STRAIGHTENING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 92.25% of the time. "STRAIGHTENING" is used about 142 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) | 92.25% | 131 | 27,855 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.63% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.11% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 142 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "STRAIGHTENING": rotary straightening ♦ straightening out. Additional references. | |
| 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 "STRAIGHTENING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | (instrument for straightening bows). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vandloebsregulering, retning i sænke (restriking, setting, tapping), retning (direction), regulering (regulation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | richten in de matrijs (restriking, setting, tapping), normalisatie (normalization), kanalisatie (canalization, channelization), het richten. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ojennus (alignment, reprimand, reproof). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | repasser en matrices, redressement, redressage, rectification, lotion défrisante, dressage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Richten im Gesenk (restriking, setting, tapping), Geraderichten, Begradigung (channel alignment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ευθυγράμμιση (alineation, alinement, collimation, linage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ישור (orthosis, rectification), "תישרות. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ristampare (reprint), rettificazione (rectification), raddrizzatura, raddrizzare (correct, right, straighten, straighten oneself up, straighten out, unbend), correzione (correction, reading, revision). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 後仕舞 (settlement, winding or straightening up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | あとじまい (settlement, winding or straightening up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jeeraghey (aim, erect, focus, level, point, rectification, rectifier, straighten, train, train as gun, unbend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aighteningstray reestampar (restriking, setting, tapping), endireitar em matriz (restriking, setting, tapping). (various references) выпрямлять выстраивание. (various references) rectificación (amendment, correction, rectification), enderezar entre matrices (restriking, setting, tapping), enderezamiento. (various references) uträtning (realignment), riktning (bearing, course, direction, drive, line, set, tack, tendency, tenor, trend), rätning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | directione, directionem, directionis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "STRAIGHTENING" (pronounced strā"tuning or strā"tning) |
| 5 | -t u n i ng | battening, brightening, disheartening, enlightening, fattening, flattening, frightening, heartening, heightening, lightening, shortening, sweetening, threatening, tightening, whitening. |
| 4 | -u n i ng | abandoning, apportioning, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, bargaining, beckoning, blackening, bludgeoning, broadening, burdening, burgeoning, captioning, cautioning, championing, cheapening, christening, coarsening, commissioning, conditioning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, deadening, deafening, decommissioning, deepening, determining, disciplining, disillusioning, envisioning, examining, fashioning, fastening, freshening, functioning, gardening, glistening, happening, hardening, hastening, imagining, imprisoning, jettisoning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, likening, listening, loosening, maddening, malfunctioning, margining, mentioning, motioning, opening, orphaning, pardoning, partitioning, petitioning, poisoning, positioning, provisioning, questioning, quickening, rationing, reasoning, reawakening, reckoning, reconditioning, reexamining, reopening, repositioning, ripening, ruining, saddening, sanctioning, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, sickening, siphoning, slackening, softening, stationing, stiffening, strengthening, summoning, thickening, toughening, unquestioning, vacationing, weakening, widening, worsening. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, awning, ballooning, banning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, boning, branning, brining, Browning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, careening, cartooning, chaining, chaperoning, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, cocooning, coining, combining, complaining, concerning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, dawning, declining, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disdaining, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, entertaining, evening, explaining, fanning, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, frowning, gaining, ginning, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, headlining, honing, Horning, housecleaning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, lightning, lining, loaning, machining, maintaining, Manning, meaning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, mourning, obtaining, opining, ordaining, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, penning, pertaining, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, postponing, preening, preplanning, pruning, quarantining, raining, realigning, reassigning, reclining, redefining, redesigning, redlining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, running, scanning, screening, shining, shunning, signing, sinning, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stoning, straining, streamlining, stunning, sunning, sustaining, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thinning, toning, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unreasoning, Vining, waning, warning, weaning, whining, wining, winning, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
| 4 | -t n i ng | lightning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abandoning, abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, apportioning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-h-i-i-n-n-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: ingatherings. | |
-2 letters: ingathering, integrating, reinstating, straighting, straitening. | |
-3 letters: astringent, astringing, estranging, garnishing, gatherings, herniating, hesitating, inearthing, intreating, intrigants, itinerants, resighting, resinating, shattering, straighten, tarnishing, tetanising, tightening, transiting. | |
-4 letters: agentings, arginines, gannister, gathering, gestating, gnathites, grainiest, hastening, ingathers, ingesting, inserting, insetting, instanter, instating, instigate, intergang, internist, intranets, intrigant, iterating, itinerant, naethings, nattering, nitrating, rattening, regaining. | |
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