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Definition: FURTHERING

Part of Speech Definition
Verb 1. To confirm, corroborate, affirm or verify. [Eve - graph theoretic]
2. To cement, consolidate, reinforce, strengthen or stabilize. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. To fuel. [Eve - graph theoretic]
4. To enhance, boost, increase, swell or augment. [Eve - graph theoretic]
5. To relieve, help, support or assist. [Eve - graph theoretic]
6. To bolster, encourage, promote or stimulate. [Eve - graph theoretic]
7. To sustain, underpin or uphold. [Eve - graph theoretic]
8. To stake or prop.[Eve - graph theoretic]
9. Present participle conjugation of the verb further.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(further)		 1. Promote the growth of.[Wordnet].
2. Contribute to the progress or growth of.[Wordnet].
3. Base verb from the following inflections: furthering, furthered, furthers, furtherer, furtherers, furtheringly and furtheredly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

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

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


Topics by Level of Interest: FURTHERING

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
IEEE-USA Award for Distinguished Contributions Furthering Public Understanding of the Profession 7     IEEE-USA Award for Distinguished Contributions Furthering Public Understanding of the Profession 7

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: furthering
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Verb

 promoting, forwarding, accelerating, elevating, benefiting, boosting, cultivating, increasing, seconding, advertizing, hiking, nurturing.
Consider also: enhancing, bettering, contributing, aiding, assisting, carrying, favoring, facilitating, improving, progressing, dispatching, easing, heightening, advocating.

Noun

 fostering, furtherance, advertising.
Consider also: assistance, advance, advancement, aid, promotion, support, packaging, publicity.

Adjective

 advancing, encouraging, expediting, quickening.
Consider also: developing, exciting, nursing.

Other

 supercharging, conducing, advantaging.

Expression

 to move forward a single step.
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Computed Synonyms: furthering

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   154.8198   furthering     farthering     moring, forwarding, stilling, promoting, backing   
 2   99.4093   furthering     moring     stilling, evening, liking, justing, newing   
 3   49.0796   furthering     further     farther, more, forward, furthermore, moreover   
 4   30.3194   furthering     forwarding     forward, foring, send, dispatch, pasting   
 5   30.3092   furthering     confirming     securing, determining, attaching, lashing, connecting   
 6   30.3092   furthering     cementing     cement, consolidate, consolidating, consolidated, consolidates   
 7   30.3091   furthering     corroborating     acknowledging, confirming, corroborate, confirm, confirmed   
 8   30.3089   furthering     consolidating     consolidate, cement, cementing, cemented, cements   
 9   29.3093   furthering     stilling     quieting, calming, evening, silencing, hushing   
 10   29.3091   furthering     championing     champion, mastering, advocating, cementing, confirming   
 11   27.3295   furthering     fueling     fuelling, forwarding, cementing, consolidating, corroborating   
 12   25.3092   furthering     advocating     attorneying, counselling, advocate, advocates, advocated   
 13   25.3091   furthering     countenancing     facing, visaging, figuring, looking, imaging   
 14   22.3191   furthering     facilitating     assisting, abetting, supporting, lifting, salving   
 15   22.3092   furthering     liking     like, fancy, love, saming, taste   
--------------------     434 synonyms ranked from 16 to 449 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: furthering

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   2.0090   furthering     too a     too, likewise a, further   
 2   1.7077   furthering     mothering ( not classified )     mother ( not classified ), fostering, nurturing   
 3   1.0093   furthering     neither a     neither, further, too a   
 4   1.0091   furthering     thus a     thus, therefore a, therefore   
 5   1.0087   furthering     social security     social insurance, aid, welfare   
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: furthering

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Expression

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   1.0077   furthering the discussions     warranty     warrant, guarantee   
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
Antonyms: furthering
Position Antonyms (sorted by strength)

Verb

 impeding, nearing, discouraging, hindering, preventing, regressing, thwarting, cumber, hinder.

Adjective

 damaging, deteriorating.

Other

 lessing.
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Translations: FURTHERING

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Al Arabiya كَذَلك (likewise, so, too, also, also a), تَطْوِير (development, advancement, advancements, advancing, developing), تَعَاهَدَ (care, cared, cares, caring, contract), تَعَهَّدَ (nurse, care, cared, cares, caring), زَيَّدَ (augment, augmented, augmenting, augments, further), وَطَّدَ (cement, firm, brace, braced, braces), وَفَّرَ (save, enshrine, enshrined, enshrines, enshrining), عَهِدَ (care, cared, cares, caring, further), نَمَّى (develop, developed, developing, develops, further), عَوَّنَ (backing, boost, support, sustained, advocate). Additional references: Al Arabiya, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
Al Fus-Ha كَذَلك (likewise, so, too, also, also a), تَطْوِير (development, advancement, advancements, advancing, developing), تَعَاهَدَ (care, cared, cares, caring, contract), تَعَهَّدَ (nurse, care, cared, cares, caring), زَيَّدَ (augment, augmented, augmenting, augments, further), وَطَّدَ (cement, firm, brace, braced, braces), وَفَّرَ (save, enshrine, enshrined, enshrines, enshrining), عَهِدَ (care, cared, cares, caring, further), نَمَّى (develop, developed, developing, develops, further), عَوَّنَ (backing, boost, support, sustained, advocate). Additional references: Al Fus-Ha, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
Arabic كَذَلك (likewise, so, too, also, also a), تَطْوِير (development, advancement, advancements, advancing, developing), تَعَاهَدَ (care, cared, cares, caring, contract), تَعَهَّدَ (nurse, care, cared, cares, caring), زَيَّدَ (augment, augmented, augmenting, augments, further), وَطَّدَ (cement, firm, brace, braced, braces), وَفَّرَ (save, enshrine, enshrined, enshrines, enshrining), عَهِدَ (care, cared, cares, caring, further), نَمَّى (develop, developed, developing, develops, further), عَوَّنَ (backing, boost, support, sustained, advocate). Additional references: Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
Bohemian prosazování (assertion, promotion, advancement, advocacy, boost). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
Brazilian Portuguese promovendo (promoting, fostering, furthering, upgrading). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
Cestina prosazování (assertion, promotion, advancement, advocacy, boost). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified 进一步 (further, to move forward a single step, furthering). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
Czech prosazování (assertion, promotion, advancement, advocacy, boost). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch fördernd (furthering, promoting, accelerating, assisting, conducive), förderung (furtherance, promotion, sponsorship, output, advancement). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
Finnish edistäminen (advancement, furtherance, advancements, promotion, abetment), edistämiskeino (means of furthering). Additional references: Finnish, Finland, Russia (Europe), furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
Français promouvant (promoting, furthering). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
French promouvant (promoting, furthering). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
German fördernd (furthering, promoting, accelerating, assisting, conducive), förderung (furtherance, promotion, sponsorship, output, advancement). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
High Arabic كَذَلك (likewise, so, too, also, also a), تَطْوِير (development, advancement, advancements, advancing, developing), تَعَاهَدَ (care, cared, cares, caring, contract), تَعَهَّدَ (nurse, care, cared, cares, caring), زَيَّدَ (augment, augmented, augmenting, augments, further), وَطَّدَ (cement, firm, brace, braced, braces), وَفَّرَ (save, enshrine, enshrined, enshrines, enshrining), عَهِدَ (care, cared, cares, caring, further), نَمَّى (develop, developed, developing, develops, further), عَوَّنَ (backing, boost, support, sustained, advocate). Additional references: High Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
High German fördernd (furthering, promoting, accelerating, assisting, conducive), förderung (furtherance, promotion, sponsorship, output, advancement). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch fördernd (furthering, promoting, accelerating, assisting, conducive), förderung (furtherance, promotion, sponsorship, output, advancement). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese 進め (furthering, giddap). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
Norwegian Befordring (forwarding, furthering). Additional references: Norwegian, Norway, furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
Polish przyczynek do dyskusji (furthering the discussions, warranty). Additional references: Polish, Poland, Czech Republic, furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
Polnisch przyczynek do dyskusji (furthering the discussions, warranty). Additional references: Polnisch, Poland, Czech Republic, furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
Polski przyczynek do dyskusji (furthering the discussions, warranty). Additional references: Polski, Poland, Czech Republic, furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
Portuguese promovendo (promoting, fostering, furthering, upgrading). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
Ruotsi befrämjande (conducive, promotion, advocacy, encouragement, furthering). Additional references: Ruotsi, Sweden, Finland, furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
Slovene pospeševanje regeneracije (furthering of recovery). Additional references: Slovene, Slovenia, Austria, furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
Slovenian pospeševanje regeneracije (furthering of recovery). Additional references: Slovenian, Slovenia, Austria, furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
Slovenscina pospeševanje regeneracije (furthering of recovery). Additional references: Slovenscina, Slovenia, Austria, furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
Suomea edistäminen (advancement, furtherance, advancements, promotion, abetment), edistämiskeino (means of furthering). Additional references: Suomea, Finland, Russia (Europe), furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
Suomi edistäminen (advancement, furtherance, advancements, promotion, abetment), edistämiskeino (means of furthering). Additional references: Suomi, Finland, Russia (Europe), furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
Svenska befrämjande (conducive, promotion, advocacy, encouragement, furthering). Additional references: Svenska, Sweden, Finland, furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
Swedish befrämjande (conducive, promotion, advocacy, encouragement, furthering). Additional references: Swedish, Sweden, Finland, furthering. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: FURTHERING

Language Translations for “furthering” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Pig Latin urtheringfay (furthering). Additional references: Pig Latin, furthering. (volunteer)
Terran B promovenno (furthering). Additional references: Terran B, furthering. (volunteer)
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