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Definition: EDUCATING

Part of Speech Definition
Verb 1. To teach, instruct, learn or tutor. [Eve - graph theoretic]
2. To train, discipline, coach or school.[Eve - graph theoretic]
3. Present participle conjugation of the verb educate.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(educate)		 1. Give an education to; "We must educate our youngsters better".[Wordnet].
2. Create by training and teaching.[Wordnet].
3. Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment.[Wordnet].
4. Train to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry".[Wordnet].
5. To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the mental activities or senses; to expand, strengthen, and discipline, as the mind, a faculty, etc.,; to form and regulate the principles and character of; to prepare and fit for any calling or business by systematic instruction; to cultivate; to train; to instruct; as, to educate a child; to educate the eye or the taste.[Websters].
6. Base verb from the following inflections: educating, educated, educates, educator, educators, educatingly and educatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adjective 1. Being developing. [Eve - graph theoretic]
2. Being nourishing. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. Being guiding. [Eve - graph theoretic]
4. Being inspiring or invigorating. [Eve - graph theoretic]
5. Being governing or ruling.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008.

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Date "Educating" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Specialty Definition: EDUCATING

Domain Definition
Noah Webster [Verb] Instructing; enlightening the understanding, and forming the manners.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Wiktionary [Verb] Present participle of educate. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Common Expressions: EDUCATING

Expressions Definition
Educating For Justice Educating For Justice is a social-justice group founded in 2000 by Jim Keady. They are advocates for Indonesian Nike and Adidas workers. (references)

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Topics by Level of Interest: EDUCATING

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Educating Rita 19     Educating Archie 2
Educating Rita (film) 15     Educating Doug 5
Educating Doug 5     Educating Esmè 4
Educating Esmè 4     Educating Rita 19
Educating Archie 2     Educating Rita (film) 15

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).

Synonyms: educating
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Verb

 cultivating, educate, instructing, informing, nurturing, rearing, acquiring, aiming, checking, cropping, devising, directing, educates, explicating, fixing, formulating, happening, instruct, modernising, modernizing, naturalising, naturalizing, nurture, nurtures, organising, organizing, originating, preparing, readying, trailing.
Consider also: indoctrinating, refining, tutoring, culturing, advising, polishing, exercising, forming, improving, practising, producing, raising, supporting, cherish, cultivate, develop, edify, elevate, encourage, enlighten, get, maintain, nourish, produce, raise.

Noun

 disciplining, drilling, education, conditioning, cooking, domesticating, railing, uprising.
Consider also: taming, comfort, drill, foster, hatch, support, training, discipline, instruction, teaching, breeding, cultivation, school, background, culture, enlightenment, knowledge, learning, pedagogy, schooling, command, commandment, direction, fostering, grooming, procreation.

Adjective

 civilizing, coaching, humanizing, enlightening, educational, developing, civilising, recrudescing.
Consider also: edifying, guiding, nourishing, nursing, rousing, rear.

Other

 machinating, bring up, calming, to train, breed, bringing-up, educations, groom, nurturer.

Expression

 to educate, to teach, to raise, to rear.
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Computed Synonyms: educating

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   53.3093   educating     practising     acting, rehearsing, creating, preparing, achieving   
 2   36.3093   educating     developing     extending, activating, cultivating, develop, causing   
 3   35.5093   educating     cultivating     developing, cultivate, promoting, grow, improving   
 4   33.5095   educating     creating     achieving, acting, create, committing, activating   
 5   30.3092   educating     discovering     tracing, allocating, detecting, eliciting, flaying   
 6   29.6095   educating     adjudicating     trying, prosecuting, sustaining, disposing, carrying   
 7   29.4094   educating     imparting     declaring, rendering, providing, announcing, presenting   
 8   29.3093   educating     informing     announcing, communicating, conveying, imparting, denouncing   
 9   25.3093   educating     fixing     fix, fixed, assigning, composing, settle   
 10   23.5193   educating     excogitating     cogitating, meditating, contemplating, instructing, reflecting   
 11   23.5095   educating     nucleating     creating, incorporating, fixing, informing, developing   
 12   23.5091   educating     incorporating     fixing, marrying, creating, developing, containing   
 13   22.3092   educating     civilizing     cultivating, raising, polishing, exploiting, tilling   
 14   21.0696   educating     educate     teach, instruct, bring up, learn, train   
 15   18.3191   educating     establishing     developing, activating, establish, initiating, stipulating   
--------------------     569 synonyms ranked from 16 to 584 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Synonyms via Expressions: educating

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   11.0090   educating     to teach     teach, instruct, educate   
 2   10.0089   educating     to appraise     appraise, to estimate, assess   
 3   10.0089   educating     to instruct     instruct, to teach, teach   
 4   5.0693   educating     to educate     educate, bring up, raise   
 5   4.3090   educating     bring up     rear, raise, nurture   
 6   4.0092   educating     din into     learn, teach, excogitate   
 7   2.3090   educating     wring out     bend, bent, bow in honour   
 8   2.0191   educating     enrol for     present, declare, proffer   
 9   2.0090   educating     knee bends     drape, writhe, to drape   
 10   2.0090   educating     to unfold     unfold, fold up, fold down   
 11   2.0090   educating     to writhe     writhe, bend, wring out   
 12   2.0090   educating     to denote     denote, indicate, signify   
 13   2.0089   educating     to surpass     surpass, exceed, to exceed   
 14   2.0088   educating     have it taped     dominate, controling, curb   
 15   2.0087   educating     to overpower     overpower, bring under control, keep in control   
--------------------     11 synonyms ranked from 16 to 26 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Expressions: educating

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Expression

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   8.0088   well educating     instructor     teacher, master   
 2   8.0087   well educating     teacher     instructor, master   
 3   5.0788   well educating     educationalist     educator, pedagogue   
 4   5.0691   well educating     educator     raiser, schooler   
 5   5.0087   well educating     tutor     teacher, instructor   
 6   5.0087   well educating     rearer     elevator, bottomer   
 7   5.0086   well educating     schoolmaster     teacher, schoolteacher   
 8   3.3087   well educating     training agent     training officer, adult educator   
 9   3.3084   well educating     training officer     instructor, coach   
 10   3.0792   well educating     educative     educational, instructive   
 11   3.0692   well educating     adult educator     course administrator, instructor   
 12   3.0086   well educating     shaper     spindle shaper, vertical spindle shaper   
 13   3.0086   well educating     display formatter     formatter, shaper   
 14   3.0086   well educating     coupler     pairer, uniter   
 15   3.0082   well educating     course administrator     adult educator, instructor   
--------------------     110 expressions ranked from 16 to 125 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top
Antonym: educating
Position Antonym (sorted by strength)

Adjective

 brutalizing.
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Translations: EDUCATING

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Al Arabiya خَرَّجَ (acclimate, acclimated, acclimates, acclimating, accustom), أَفْقَهَ (edified, edifies, edify, edifying, educate), ثَقَّفَ (edify, educate, edified, edifies, edifying), دَرَّسَ (teach, tutor, edified, edifies, edify). Additional references: Al Arabiya, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Al Fus-Ha خَرَّجَ (acclimate, acclimated, acclimates, acclimating, accustom), أَفْقَهَ (edified, edifies, edify, edifying, educate), ثَقَّفَ (edify, educate, edified, edifies, edifying), دَرَّسَ (teach, tutor, edified, edifies, edify). Additional references: Al Fus-Ha, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Arabic خَرَّجَ (acclimate, acclimated, acclimates, acclimating, accustom), أَفْقَهَ (edified, edifies, edify, edifying, educate), ثَقَّفَ (edify, educate, edified, edifies, edifying), دَرَّسَ (teach, tutor, edified, edifies, edify). Additional references: Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Bohemian obrazovanje (accomplishment, culture, educating, education, erudition), vzdělávací (educational, educating, education, instructional), výchovný (educational, educative, edifying, edificatory, educatory). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Brazilian Portuguese educando (educating, discipline, educate, instruct, rear), escolarizando (educating), disciplinando (educating, instructing, disciplining), educador (educator, educating, educationalist, pedagogy, trainer), educar (to educate, educate, bring up, breed, coach). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Cestina obrazovanje (accomplishment, culture, educating, education, erudition), vzdělávací (educational, educating, education, instructional), výchovný (educational, educative, edifying, edificatory, educatory). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified 教育 (education, to educate, to teach, educate, educational), 教育促进可持续未来 (educating for a sustainable future). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Comtois montrer (teach, to teach, instruct, to instruct, practise). Additional references: Comtois, France, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Corse insignà (teach, to teach, indicate, to indicate, instruct), ammaistrà (teach, to teach, instruct, to instruct, bend), struì-ice (teach, to teach, instruct, to instruct, practise), istruì-isce (teach, to teach, instruct, to instruct, practise), maestru (master, splinter, teacher, educator, brilliance), furmatore (instructor, coach, coupler, course administrator, shaper), educatore (educator, educationalist, governess, home tutor, incumbent). Additional references: Corse, France, Italy, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsi insignà (teach, to teach, indicate, to indicate, instruct), ammaistrà (teach, to teach, instruct, to instruct, bend), struì-ice (teach, to teach, instruct, to instruct, practise), istruì-isce (teach, to teach, instruct, to instruct, practise), maestru (master, splinter, teacher, educator, brilliance), furmatore (instructor, coach, coupler, course administrator, shaper), educatore (educator, educationalist, governess, home tutor, incumbent). Additional references: Corsi, France, Italy, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsican insignà (teach, to teach, indicate, to indicate, instruct), ammaistrà (teach, to teach, instruct, to instruct, bend), struì-ice (teach, to teach, instruct, to instruct, practise), istruì-isce (teach, to teach, instruct, to instruct, practise), maestru (master, splinter, teacher, educator, brilliance), furmatore (instructor, coach, coupler, course administrator, shaper), educatore (educator, educationalist, governess, home tutor, incumbent). Additional references: Corsican, France, Italy, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Corso insignà (teach, to teach, indicate, to indicate, instruct), ammaistrà (teach, to teach, instruct, to instruct, bend), struì-ice (teach, to teach, instruct, to instruct, practise), istruì-isce (teach, to teach, instruct, to instruct, practise), maestru (master, splinter, teacher, educator, brilliance), furmatore (instructor, coach, coupler, course administrator, shaper), educatore (educator, educationalist, governess, home tutor, incumbent). Additional references: Corso, France, Italy, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsu insignà (teach, to teach, indicate, to indicate, instruct), ammaistrà (teach, to teach, instruct, to instruct, bend), struì-ice (teach, to teach, instruct, to instruct, practise), istruì-isce (teach, to teach, instruct, to instruct, practise), maestru (master, splinter, teacher, educator, brilliance), furmatore (instructor, coach, coupler, course administrator, shaper), educatore (educator, educationalist, governess, home tutor, incumbent). Additional references: Corsu, France, Italy, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Czech obrazovanje (accomplishment, culture, educating, education, erudition), vzdělávací (educational, educating, education, instructional), výchovný (educational, educative, edifying, edificatory, educatory). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch erziehend (educating, rearing), bildend (educating, formative, forming, shaping, building), ausbildend (apprenticing, educating), züchtend (breeding, educating), erziehen (educate, to educate, bring up, breed, raise), aufziehend (fostering, razzing, ribbing, rearing, advancing), aufklärend (disabusing, clarifying, elucidating, illuminative, illuming), gut erzogen (well educating, well raised, well bred, well-bred), erzeugend (producing, generating, causing, engendering, creating), umschulend (retraining, re educating). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Dutch opvoedend (educative, educating, educational), beschavend (civilizing, well educating), welopvoedend (well educating). Additional references: Dutch, Netherlands, Aruba, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Français éduquant (educating), instruisant (instructing, teaching, educating), éducative (educating, educational), instruire (teach, instruct, to teach, exercise, practise), civilisant (civilizing, well educating), conférant une bonne éducation (well educating), Éduquer pour un avenir viable (educating for a sustainable future), rééducation des amputés (educating amputees), formateur (formative, instructor, adult educator, display formatter, formatter), éducateur (educator, tutor, educational, rearer, teacher). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Franc-comtois montrer (teach, to teach, instruct, to instruct, practise). Additional references: Franc-comtois, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
French éduquant (educating), instruisant (instructing, teaching, educating), éducative (educating, educational), instruire (teach, instruct, to teach, exercise, practise), civilisant (civilizing, well educating), conférant une bonne éducation (well educating), Éduquer pour un avenir viable (educating for a sustainable future), rééducation des amputés (educating amputees), formateur (formative, instructor, adult educator, display formatter, formatter), éducateur (educator, tutor, educational, rearer, teacher). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
German erziehend (educating, rearing), bildend (educating, formative, forming, shaping, building), ausbildend (apprenticing, educating), züchtend (breeding, educating), erziehen (educate, to educate, bring up, breed, raise), aufziehend (fostering, razzing, ribbing, rearing, advancing), aufklärend (disabusing, clarifying, elucidating, illuminative, illuming), gut erzogen (well educating, well raised, well bred, well-bred), erzeugend (producing, generating, causing, engendering, creating), umschulend (retraining, re educating). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
High Arabic خَرَّجَ (acclimate, acclimated, acclimates, acclimating, accustom), أَفْقَهَ (edified, edifies, edify, edifying, educate), ثَقَّفَ (edify, educate, edified, edifies, edifying), دَرَّسَ (teach, tutor, edified, edifies, edify). Additional references: High Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
High German erziehend (educating, rearing), bildend (educating, formative, forming, shaping, building), ausbildend (apprenticing, educating), züchtend (breeding, educating), erziehen (educate, to educate, bring up, breed, raise), aufziehend (fostering, razzing, ribbing, rearing, advancing), aufklärend (disabusing, clarifying, elucidating, illuminative, illuming), gut erzogen (well educating, well raised, well bred, well-bred), erzeugend (producing, generating, causing, engendering, creating), umschulend (retraining, re educating). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch erziehend (educating, rearing), bildend (educating, formative, forming, shaping, building), ausbildend (apprenticing, educating), züchtend (breeding, educating), erziehen (educate, to educate, bring up, breed, raise), aufziehend (fostering, razzing, ribbing, rearing, advancing), aufklärend (disabusing, clarifying, elucidating, illuminative, illuming), gut erzogen (well educating, well raised, well bred, well-bred), erzeugend (producing, generating, causing, engendering, creating), umschulend (retraining, re educating). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Italian istruendo (educating, instructing), educando (educating), avviando (beginning, educating, initializing). Additional references: Italian, Italy, Croatia, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese 育て (raising, bringing up, educating, fostering, parenting), 食育 (educating children to have a good diet), しょくいく (educating children to have a good diet), 再び育て (re educating, re parenting, re-educating, re-parenting). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Kisuaheli ulezi (upbringing, nurture, nurtured, upbringings, bring), malezi (bring, caring, educating, education, millet). Additional references: Kisuaheli, Tanzania, Burundi, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Kiswahili ulezi (upbringing, nurture, nurtured, upbringings, bring), malezi (bring, caring, educating, education, millet). Additional references: Kiswahili, Tanzania, Burundi, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Latvian speciālās mācību iestādes (special educating facilities). Additional references: Latvian, Latvia, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Latviska speciālās mācību iestādes (special educating facilities). Additional references: Latviska, Latvia, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Lettisch speciālās mācību iestādes (special educating facilities). Additional references: Lettisch, Latvia, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Lettish speciālās mācību iestādes (special educating facilities). Additional references: Lettish, Latvia, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Norwegian Å utdanning (educating). Additional references: Norwegian, Norway, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Polish poznawczy (cognitive, educating), kształcenie (education, educating, instructions, licking, training). Additional references: Polish, Poland, Czech Republic, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Polnisch poznawczy (cognitive, educating), kształcenie (education, educating, instructions, licking, training). Additional references: Polnisch, Poland, Czech Republic, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Polski poznawczy (cognitive, educating), kształcenie (education, educating, instructions, licking, training). Additional references: Polski, Poland, Czech Republic, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Portuguese educando (educating, discipline, educate, instruct, rear), escolarizando (educating), educador (educator, educating, educationalist, pedagogy, trainer), disciplinando (educating, instructing, disciplining), educar (educate, bring up, to educate, breed, coach). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Ruotsi uppfostrande (educating, educative), pedagogiskt (pedagogic, well educating), pedagogisk (pedagogic, didactic, disciplinary, educative, pedagogical), fostrande (educative, well educating). Additional references: Ruotsi, Sweden, Finland, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Spanish educando (educating, fosterling, enrolled learner, pupil, scholar), formando (educating, jelling), educador (educator, educating, mentor, trainer), educar (educate, to educate, breed, bring up, discipline), Educación para un futuro sostenible (educating for a sustainable future). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Svenska uppfostrande (educating, educative), pedagogiskt (pedagogic, well educating), pedagogisk (pedagogic, didactic, disciplinary, educative, pedagogical), fostrande (educative, well educating). Additional references: Svenska, Sweden, Finland, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Swahili ulezi (upbringing, nurture, nurtured, upbringings, bring), malezi (bring, caring, educating, education, millet). Additional references: Swahili, Tanzania, Burundi, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Swedish uppfostrande (educating, educative), pedagogiskt (pedagogic, well educating), pedagogisk (pedagogic, didactic, disciplinary, educative, pedagogical), fostrande (educative, well educating). Additional references: Swedish, Sweden, Finland, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
Vivaro-Alpine Occitan estruire (teach, to teach, instruct, to instruct, practise). Additional references: Vivaro-Alpine Occitan, educating. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: EDUCATING

Language Translations for “educating” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Athag athagedathagucathagatathaging (educating). Additional references: Athag, educating. (volunteer)
Double Dutch agedagucagataging (educating). Additional references: Double Dutch, educating. (volunteer)
Leet 3|)<(4+![\]6 (educating). Additional references: Leet, educating. (volunteer)
Oppish opedopucopatoping (educating). Additional references: Oppish, educating. (volunteer)
Pig Latin educatingway (educating). Additional references: Pig Latin, educating. (volunteer)
Terran B educandon (educating). Additional references: Terran B, educating. (volunteer)
Ubbi Dubbi ubedubucubatubing (educating). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, educating. (volunteer)
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Ancestral and Extinct Language Translations: EDUCATING

Language Period Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Old French 900 - 1400 duire (lead, teach, to lead, to teach, steer), assener (hit, steer, to aim, knock, strike). Additional references: Old French, educating. (volunteer)
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