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Definition: ELDING

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. Fuel.[Websters].
Verb 1. Seldom used present participle conjugation of the verb eld.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(eld)		 1. To age; to grow old.[Websters].
2. To make old or ancient.[Websters].
3. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: elding, elded, elds, elder, elders, eldingly and eldedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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"Elding" is a common misspelling or typo for: ending, welding, gelding, eluding, melding, eliding, yelding, leding.

Date "Elding" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references)

Note: Elding \El"ding\, noun. [Icel. elding, from elda to kindle, eldr fire; akin to Anglo-Saxon [ae]ld fire, [ae]lan to burn.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: ELDING

Domain Definition
Noah Webster [Noun] Fuel. . Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.

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

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Topics by Level of Interest: ELDING

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Anthony Elding 12     Anthony Elding 12

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).

"elding" is a common misspelling or typo for: ending, welding, gelding, eluding, melding, eliding, yelding, leding.

Synonyms: elding
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Noun

 fuel.
Consider also: firewood, petrol.

Adjective

 aging.
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Computed Synonyms: elding

 Rank

 Intensity 

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 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   10.3096   elding     aging     perioding, ageing, age, aged, mature   
 2   2.3095   elding     hoaring     riming, greying, frosting, graying, whiting   
 3   1.3096   elding     oldening     antiquing, staling, obsoleting, maturing, riping   
 4   1.3096   elding     boying     servanting, childing, kidding, smacking, horsing   
 5   1.3096   elding     airing     air, ventilation, blasting, looking, viewing   
 6   1.3095   elding     spacing     placing, rooming, space, gaping, distancing   
 7   1.3095   elding     rooming     chambering, positioning, steading, seating, scoping   
 8   1.3095   elding     pasting     lasting, gluing, stick, sticking, lating   
 9   1.3095   elding     clearing     brighting, distincting, clear, fairing, clearer   
 10   1.3095   elding     bucking     staging, ramming, tuping, goating, maling   
 11   1.3094   elding     spanning     ranging, scoping, lengthing, spacing, sizing   
 12   1.3093   elding     perfecting     uttering, fulling, correcting, improving, totaling   
 13   1.3093   elding     wintering     winter, hibernation, colding, summering, overwintering   
 14   1.3092   elding     distancing     gaping, waying, lengthing, offsetting, journeying   
 15   1.3091   elding     protracting     postponing, delaying, lingering, procrastinating, retarding   
--------------------     2 synonyms ranked from 16 to 17 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