Teeming

Definition: Teeming

Teeming

Adjective

1. Abundantly filled with especially living things; "the Third World's teeming millions"; "the teeming boulevard"; "harried by swarming rats".

Date "teeming" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Mining	A. Shaping glass by pouring it into or on molds, tables, or rolls.b. See:casting. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Teeming

Synonym: swarming (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Assemblage	Adjective: assembled; Verb: closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous; as thick as hops; all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative.
Multitude	Adjective: many, several, sundry, divers, various, not a few; Briarean; a hundred, a thousand, a myriad, a million, a quadrillion, a nonillion, a thousand and one; some ten or a dozen, some forty or fifty; half a dozen, half a hundred; very many, full many, ever so many; numerous; numerose; profuse, in profusion; manifold, multiplied, multitudinous, multiple, multinominal, teeming, populous, peopled, crowded, thick, studded; galore.
Production	Adjective: produced, producing; Verb: productive of; prolific; creative; formative, genetic, genial, genital; pregnant; enceinte, big with, fraught with; in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of; puerperal, puerperous.
Productiveness	Adjective: productive, prolific; teeming, teemful; fertile, fruitful, frugiferous, fruit-bearing; fecund, luxuriant; pregnant, uberous.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Brown-skinned girls who inflame your senses with their play, cool yellow-haired women who entice and escape you, gentle ones who serve you, slender ones who torment you, the mothers who bore and suckled you; all women whom God created out of the teeming fullness of the earth, are yours in the love of one woman. (Rembrandt; writing credit: Carl Zuckmayer; June Head)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Asia's teeming millions: and its problems for the West (reference) If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens . . . Where Is Everybody? : Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life (reference) London's Teeming Streets : 1830-1914 (reference) Mold Powders for Continuous Casting and Bottom Pour Teeming (reference) My Teeming Brain: Creativity in Creative Writers (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
John Keats	When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.
William Blake	All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
William Shakespeare	The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	India	There is a teeming marketing layer of major and minor retailers. (references)
	Nigeria	Federal and State governments are also determined to provide affordable shelter for their teeming populace in accordance with their electoral promises. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Teeming" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.27% of the time. "Teeming" is used about 113 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
Adjective (general or positive)	90.27%	102	32,309
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	8.85%	10	111,207
Noun (singular)	0.88%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	113	N/A

Expressions using "teeming": be teeming ♦ crawling withpredicate overrun with swarming swarming withpredicate teeming teeming withpredicate ♦ teeming ladle ♦ teeming lap ♦ teeming with ♦ teeming with ideas. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "teeming": Teeming-pit.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "teeming"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mbushje e tepërt (overcrowding, overflow), i mbushur tepër (overfull). (various references)

Arabic		‏مزدحم (congested, crammed, crowded, full, jammed, overcrowded, packed, populous, swarming), ‏زاخر (copious, full, generous), ‏صاب (poured). (various references)

Bulgarian		изобилствуващ от живот, изобилствуващ от енергия, изобилие (abundance, affluence, amplitude, exuberance, fertility, flush, flushness, galore, lashings, liberality, luxuriance, opulence, plenitude, prodigality, productiveness, productivity, profusion, quantities, quantity, raft, redundance, redundancy, richness, spate, store, superfluity). (various references)

Chinese		�'出 (teem, Teemed). (various references)

Danish		tykkelsen af den rene zone kan goeres mindre,hvis gasudviklingen standses tidligt nok:den totale heterogenitet er da mindre.Dette er formaalet med metoden med afbrudt gasudvikling,som specielt opnaas ved stoebning i flaskehalskokiller (and the overall heterogeneity is then lower. This is the aim of the practice of interrupted rimming, the thickness of the rim can be reduced by stopping rimming at a fairly early stage, which is achieved in particular by teeming into bottle moulds ( capped ingots )), stoebeske (casting ladle, ladle, steel ladle, teeming ladle), staalvaerksfolkene proever at styre fremstillingen af det stoebte staal saaledes,at gasudviklingen er netop stor nok til at forhindre,ar der findes gasblaerer mindre end 1 cm fra overfladen (the steelmakers thus try to control elaboration fabrication and teeming in such a way that the rimming action is enough to prevent blowholes becoming entrapped at less than 1 cm from the surface), paa grund af de fra det flydende staal undvigende gasbobler sker der en omroering i smeltebadet,som man let kan se i stoebegruben (on escaping from the liquid steel the gas bubbles cause stirring, which is readily visible from the teeming floor), overflademaerker (folding, recurrent lap, rippling, shelly, surging lap, teeming lap, wash marking), overfladefolder (bootleg mark, fold, folding, recurrent lap, single lap, surging lap, teeming lap, wash marking), man kan let forestille sig,at kontakten mellem metalstraalen og den kolde kokillevaeg i kombination med den kraftige omroering ved udstoebningen,kunne give anledning til dannelse af et stort antal krystaller,af hvilke et stort antal kunne give en lagforme (combined with the vigorous currents produced during teeming, in fact, of which some would form a thin skin zone adhering to the walls but of which others would remain in suspension in the liquid, one can, readily imagine that the contact between the stream of liquid metal and the cold mould, would give rise to a large number of crystallites), koldloebning (cold lap, cold laps, cold set, cold shut, interrupted pour, teeming arrest). (various references)

Dutch		staalaftap (steel tap, to teem). (various references)

Finnish		kihistä (be alive, be teeming, fizz, sizzle), jssak vilisee jotakin (is alive with, is teeming with). (various references)

French		torrentiel, jet, grouillant de monde, coulage, coulée de l'acier (to teem), coulée � partir d'une poche, coulée, battant. (various references)

German		wimmelnd (swarming). (various references)

Greek		γεμάτοσ (brimful, crowded, fraught, full, loaded, replete, thick with), αποχύτευση χάλυβα (steel tap, to teem). (various references)

Hebrew		שורץ (ridden). (various references)

Hungarian		színültig tele (brimful, filled to repletion, full to the brim, top-full), nyüzsgő (bustling), hemzsegő. (various references)

Italian		colata dell'acciaio (steel tap, to teem). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		郁郁たる (aromatic, diffusing of aroma, flourishing, teeming with culture). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		いくいくたる (aromatic, diffusing of aroma, flourishing, teeming with culture). (various references)

Manx		plooghit (chesty, choked, close, congested, frowsty, fuggy, glutted, inundated, overcome with smoke, smothered, stifled, stunk out, suffocated, suppressed, thick, thick as voice), er croo lesh. (various references)

Pig Latin		eemingtay.(various references)

Portuguese		repleto (chock full, fatal, full, overgrowth, replete), prolífico (chock full, fruitful, philosopher, prolific), numeroso (chock full, great, multiform, multitudinous, numerous, rife, thick), fértil (chock full, fertile, fruitful, generous, philoprogenitive, plenteous, pregnant, productive, prolific, rich), cheio (bursting, chock full, complete, flush, fraught, full, overflowing, overgrown, philoprogenitive, plump, prolific, rank, replete, round, stuffed, thick, thick stroke, tumid), apinhado (chock full, thick), abundante (abundant, abundantly, ample, bounteous, broad, chock full, copious, flush, free, frequent, full, generous, large, lumpish, numerous, opulent, philoprogenitive, plenteous, plentiful, plenum, profuse, prolific, rich, thick-set, unsparing, wanton). (various references)

Russian		переполненный (awash, chock full, chock-full, choke-full, crowded, full up, overbooked, overcrowded, overflowing, overfull, replete). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		rodan (fertile, native, pregnant, yielding), pun (complete, filled, fraught, full, full of, rife, thick, whole), prepun (brimming, chockablock, crowded, overfull). (various references)

Spanish		una temperatura de colada elevada da menos núcleos, ya que el metal está muy caliente y, además, aumenta la probabilidad de que fundan de nuevo al ser devueltos al líquido caliente (a high melt temperature gives fewer nuclei on teeming since the metal is very hot, and in addition it increases the probability of the nuclei being remelted once they have been reentrained in the hot liquid), series de pliegues (folding, recurrent lap, surging lap, teeming lap, wash marking), rebaba (bootleg mark, bur, burr, burrs, collar mark, fin, flash, flush, fold, folding, overfill, overflush, overpress, paring, recurrent lap, scallop, shaving, single lap, surging lap, teeming lap, trimming, wash marking), los acereros se esfuerzan, por lo tanto, en controlar la elaboración y la colada, de manera que la efervescencia sea suficiente para impedir el aprisionamiento de las sopladuras a menos de 1 cm de la superficie (the steelmakers thus try to control elaboration fabrication and teeming in such a way that the rimming action is enough to prevent blowholes becoming entrapped at less than 1 cm from the surface), las burbujas de gas que se escapan del acero líquido producen una agitación del baño que se puede observar en la fosa de colada (on escaping from the liquid steel the gas bubbles cause stirring, which is readily visible from the teeming floor), junta fría (cold lap, cold laps, cold set, cold shut, interrupted pour, teeming arrest), en realidad, se puede pensar que el contacto con la lingotera fría del chorro y de las corrientes violentas producidas durante la colada dan gran número de cristales de los cuales algunos producen una zona pelicular adherente a las paredes, mientras que (combined with the vigorous currents produced during teeming, in fact, of which some would form a thin skin zone adhering to the walls but of which others would remain in suspension in the liquid, one can, readily imagine that the contact between the stream of liquid metal and the cold mould, would give rise to a large number of crystallites), el espesor de la zona pura se puede reducir si se detiene la efervescencia muy pronto;entonces la heterogeneidad global es más baja.Este es el objeto de la práctica de la efervescencia interrumpida,que se obtiene en especial con la colada en lingotera d (and the overall heterogeneity is then lower. This is the aim of the practice of interrupted rimming, the thickness of the rim can be reduced by stopping rimming at a fairly early stage, which is achieved in particular by teeming into bottle moulds ( capped ingots )), derrame (bootleg mark, effusion, fold, folding, leak, outpouring, overspill, recurrent lap, run out, rundown, sail, single lap, spill, spill situation, spillage, spillover, surging lap, teeming lap, wash marking), cuchara de colada (casting ladle, ladle, steel ladle, teeming ladle), colada interrumpida (cold laps, cold shut, interrupted pour, teeming arrest). (various references)

Swedish		full av ideer (teeming with ideas). (various references)

Vietnamese		thừa thãi (abounding, fair, overabundant, profuse, teemful), lúc nhúc (teemful), d�"i d� o; đông đúc (teemful), đầy ứ (teemful), đầy (chock-full, compact, full, instinct, replete, teemful). (various references)

Welsh		tryfrith (speckled, swarming), toreithiog (abundant), epilgar (prolific). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "teeming": teemingly, teemingness, teemingnesses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "teeming": disesteeming, esteeming, misesteeming. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Teeming" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: leeming, taiming, teaying, tecing, teeling, teering, teeving, Teiman, temming, Tieman, Tiemann, Tiesinga, timeing, tokening, tokenyng, tremin, tweening. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "teeming" (pronounced tē"ming)
5	t ē" m i ng	steaming, teaming.
4	-ē" m i ng	beaming, dreaming, gleaming, redeeming, scheming, screaming, seeming, streaming.
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.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: meeting.
	Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-m-n-t"
	-1 letter: emetin, meting, teeing, tegmen.
	-2 letters: genet, genie, tenge, tinge.
	-3 letters: emit, gene, gent, gien, item, meet, mete, mien, mine, mint, mite, neem, nite, teem, teen, time, tine, ting.
	-4 letters: eme, eng, gee, gem, gen, get, gie, gin, git, meg, men, met, mig, nee, net, nim, nit, tee, teg, ten, tie, tin.
	-5 letters: em, en, et, in, it, me, mi, ne, ti.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-m-n-t"
	+1 letter: geminate, meetings, metering, regiment.
	+2 letters: cementing, dementing, esteeming, exempting, geminated, geminates, germinate, helmeting, magnesite, magnetise, magnetite, magnetize, metheglin, pigmented, regiments, remeeting, remelting, reteaming, teemingly, tempering.
	+3 letters: antimerger, demeriting, designment, emarginate, emendating, ergotamine, fermenting, genteelism, germinated, germinates, goniometer, impregnate, integument, magnesites, magnetised, magnetises, magnetites, magnetized, magnetizer, magnetizes, metheglins, mignonette, mismeeting, nonmeeting, permeating, preempting, reemitting, regimental, regimented, resmelting, segmenting, steamering, tempesting, triggermen.
	+4 letters: abridgement, argumentive, attempering, beguilement, demagnetize, designments, determining, egocentrism, embittering, enumerating, ergotamines, extermining, ferrimagnet, fragmentize, gametogenic, genteelisms, geomagnetic, germinative, goniometers, homogeneity, impingement, impregnated, impregnates, integuments, intermingle, interregnum, magnetizers, metagenesis, metagenetic, mignonettes, misbegotten, misentering, missteering, monogenetic, multiengine, mutagenesis, mutineering, neostigmine, nonmeetings, overemoting, overmelting, realignment, regimentals, regimenting, remarketing, remastering, remediating, retempering, sedimenting, somerseting, steelmaking, teemingness, timekeeping, timeserving, witenagemot.
	+5 letters: abridgements, aeromagnetic, aggrievement, augmentative, beguilements, counterimage, decrementing, demagnetized, demagnetizer, demagnetizes, demonetizing, disagreement, disesteeming, disguisement, dislodgement, distempering, egocentrisms, entomologies, ferrimagnets, fragmentized, fragmentizes, gemeinschaft, geomagnetism, geometrician, geometrising, geometrizing, goniometries, homesteading, impingements, implementing, incrementing, infringement, intermeshing, intermingled, intermingles, interregnums, intersegment, inveiglement, magnetizable, mastersinger, meetinghouse, meningitides, mightinesses, misesteeming, multiengines, nematologies, neostigmines, premarketing, realignments, reassignment, reattempting, reestimating, remoistening, remonetizing, remunerating, segmentation, somersetting, steelmakings, telegramming, telemetering, timekeepings, timeservings, ungerminated, witenagemote, witenagemots.
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