| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To wave, ripple or surge. [Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To wrinkle, crease, crumple, furrow or rumple. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To pucker or corrugate. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To curl or frizzle. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To groove, flute or rut.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Present participle conjugation of the verb cockle.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (cockle) |
1. Stir up (water) so as to form ripples.[Wordnet]. 2. To gather something into small wrinkles or folds.[Wordnet]. 3. To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting.[Websters]. 4. Base verb from the following inflections: cockling, cockled, cockles, cockler, cocklers, cocklingly and cockledly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "Cockling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Industry | 1: A crimpiness or pucker in yarn or fabric usually caused by lack of uniform quality in the raw material used, improper tension on yarn in weaving, or weaving together yarns of different numbers. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| 2: An irregular surface effect caused by loop distortion. Source: European Union. (references) | |||
| Meteorology & Standards | Deformation of a web of e. g. paper normally at the edges, as a result of a non-uniform moisture content. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
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| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Cockling sea | Waves dashing against each other with a short and quick motion. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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Topics by Level of Interest: COCKLING | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster | 13 | 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster | 13 | |
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Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
| Language | Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses) | |||
| Al Arabiya | تَجْعِيد (crimp, curl, curling, cockle, cockled), تَجَعُّد (cockle, cockled, cockles, cockling, corrugation), تَغْضِين (cockle, cockled, cockles, cockling, corrugation), تَغَضُّن (cockle, cockled, cockles, cockling, corrugation), غُضُون (cockle, cockled, cockles, cockling, corrugation), خَدَّدَ (furrow, groove, rut, cockle, cockled), تَجَعَّدَ (corrugate, crumple, pucker, shrivel, wrinkle), تَغَضَّنَ (corrugate, shrivel, wrinkle, cockle, cockled), غَضَّنَ (crease, wrinkle, cockle, cockled, cockles), غَضَن (pucker, rumple, cockle, cockled, cockles). Additional references: Al Arabiya, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, cockling. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Al Fus-Ha | تَجْعِيد (crimp, curl, curling, cockle, cockled), تَجَعُّد (cockle, cockled, cockles, cockling, corrugation), تَغْضِين (cockle, cockled, cockles, cockling, corrugation), تَغَضُّن (cockle, cockled, cockles, cockling, corrugation), غُضُون (cockle, cockled, cockles, cockling, corrugation), خَدَّدَ (furrow, groove, rut, cockle, cockled), تَجَعَّدَ (corrugate, crumple, pucker, shrivel, wrinkle), تَغَضَّنَ (corrugate, shrivel, wrinkle, cockle, cockled), غَضَّنَ (crease, wrinkle, cockle, cockled, cockles), غَضَن (pucker, rumple, cockle, cockled, cockles). Additional references: Al Fus-Ha, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, cockling. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Arabic | تَجْعِيد (crimp, curl, curling, cockle, cockled), تَجَعُّد (cockle, cockled, cockles, cockling, corrugation), تَغْضِين (cockle, cockled, cockles, cockling, corrugation), تَغَضُّن (cockle, cockled, cockles, cockling, corrugation), غُضُون (cockle, cockled, cockles, cockling, corrugation), خَدَّدَ (furrow, groove, rut, cockle, cockled), تَجَعَّدَ (corrugate, crumple, pucker, shrivel, wrinkle), تَغَضَّنَ (corrugate, shrivel, wrinkle, cockle, cockled), غَضَّنَ (crease, wrinkle, cockle, cockled, cockles), غَضَن (pucker, rumple, cockle, cockled, cockles). Additional references: Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, cockling. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Brazilian Portuguese | caneladura (buckling, cockling, curling, flute, fluting). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, cockling. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Chinese Simplified | 绉面 (cockling), 公鸡 (cock, rooster, cocks, roosters, chanticleer). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, cockling. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Chinese Traditional | 起皺 (corrugation, corrugate, crinkle, goffer, ridge). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, cockling. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Deutsch | werfend (cockling, foaling, tossing, whelping, casting). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, cockling. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Dutch | golven (undulate, wave, flow, fluctuate, roll). Additional references: Dutch, Netherlands, Aruba, cockling. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Finnish | aaltoilu (undulation, flow, flows, heave, buckling). Additional references: Finnish, Finland, Russia (Europe), cockling. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Français | recoquillement (cockling), gondolage (curling, blistering, buckling, cockling, creasing), gaufrage (goffering, buckling, chasing, cockling, crease), crispage (cockle, cockling), ondulation (ripple, undulation, curling, corrugation, ripple content), coquillage (shellfish, seashell, shell, mussel, Animal shell), cloquage (blistering, bubbling, cockle, cockling, cratering). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, cockling. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| French | recoquillement (cockling), gondolage (curling, blistering, buckling, cockling, creasing), gaufrage (goffering, buckling, chasing, cockling, crease), crispage (cockle, cockling), ondulation (ripple, undulation, curling, corrugation, ripple content), coquillage (shellfish, seashell, shell, mussel, Animal shell), cloquage (blistering, bubbling, cockle, cockling, cratering). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, cockling. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| German | werfend (cockling, foaling, tossing, whelping, casting). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, cockling. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| High Arabic | تَجْعِيد (crimp, curl, curling, cockle, cockled), تَجَعُّد (cockle, cockled, cockles, cockling, corrugation), تَغْضِين (cockle, cockled, cockles, cockling, corrugation), تَغَضُّن (cockle, cockled, cockles, cockling, corrugation), غُضُون (cockle, cockled, cockles, cockling, corrugation), خَدَّدَ (furrow, groove, rut, cockle, cockled), تَجَعَّدَ (corrugate, crumple, pucker, shrivel, wrinkle), تَغَضَّنَ (corrugate, shrivel, wrinkle, cockle, cockled), غَضَّنَ (crease, wrinkle, cockle, cockled, cockles), غَضَن (pucker, rumple, cockle, cockled, cockles). Additional references: High Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, cockling. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| High German | werfend (cockling, foaling, tossing, whelping, casting). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, cockling. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Hochdeutsch | werfend (cockling, foaling, tossing, whelping, casting). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, cockling. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Japanese | トリガイ (cockle, cockles, cockling). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, cockling. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Portuguese | caneladura (buckling, cockling, curling, flute, fluting). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, cockling. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Spanish | corrugado (corrugated, creping, material thickness of a combined plain and corrugated conduit, buckling, cockling), ondulado (corrugated, wavy, billowy, corrugate, curly), acanalado (grooved, ribbed, channeled, channelled, corrugated). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, cockling. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Suomea | aaltoilu (undulation, flow, flows, heave, buckling). Additional references: Suomea, Finland, Russia (Europe), cockling. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Suomi | aaltoilu (undulation, flow, flows, heave, buckling). Additional references: Suomi, Finland, Russia (Europe), cockling. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations). | Top | |||
| Language | Translations for “cockling” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses. | |||
| Pig Latin | ocklingcay (cockling). Additional references: Pig Latin, cockling. (volunteer) | |||
| Terran B | conuladuo (cockling). Additional references: Terran B, cockling. (volunteer) | |||
| Source: compiled by the editor. | Top | |||
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