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Definition: Tramping |
TrampingAdjective1. Walking with a heavy tread; "little boys playing in the dust heedless of the trampling feet everywhere about them". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tramping" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references) |
Synonym: TrampingSynonym: trampling (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tramping |
| English words defined with "tramping": tramp ♦ Walleteer. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "tramping": Walleteer. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tramping Tramps (1930) Tom's Tramping Troupe (1917) | |
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| "Tramping" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 89.39% of the time. "Tramping" is used about 66 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 89.39% | 59 | 44,010 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 9.09% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.52% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 66 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
devil ground tramping | 22 |
new tramping zealand | 10 |
tramping | 7 |
tramping and walking | 4 |
devil grounds tramping | 2 |
in new tramping zealand | 2 |
devil ground picture tramping | 2 |
nude tramping | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tramping"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 践踏 (Tramped, trample, trampled, trampling, Treading, Trod, trodden). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | maritim transport ifølge efterspørgsel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | getrappel, gestamp. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | piedfrapado. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | savenpolkeminen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | transport maritime la demande, refoulage, marchage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | trampend (hitchhiking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ζύμωμα λάσπης, ανοικτή θαλάσσια μεταφορά, Eπεξεργασία αργίλλου. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pestatura, nave volandiera, nave da carico libera. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | どさ回り'やる (blunder or clumsiness, constantly, flump, heavily, noise, noisy, one after the other, plump, rapidly, slapstick, sound of tramping, sumo exclamation, to be on the road, to go on tour, whatever, whichever, with a flop, with a thud, without hesitation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | どしどし (constantly, one after the other, rapidly, sound of tramping, without hesitation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | "밟음 (trampling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ampingtray pisa do barro, calcamento do barro com os pés. (various references) tropot, ropot (burst, ripple, round, salvo, storm, thunder, tramp), haimanalâc (loafing). (various references) pisado (crushing, treading). (various references) tapyrdy (stamping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Tramping" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tramming, trampen, traning. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tramping" (pronounced tra"mping) |
| 6 | -r a" m p i ng | cramping, ramping. |
| 5 | -a" m p i ng | camping, clamping, damping, lamping, revamping, stamping, tamping. |
| 4 | -m p i ng | antidumping, bumping, chomping, clumping, crimping, dumping, jumping, limping, lumping, pimping, pumping, romping, scrimping, skimping, slumping, stomping, stumping, swamping, thumping. |
| 3 | -p i ng | aping, backslapping, beeping, bleeping, bookkeeping, burping, capping, carping, Chipping, chirping, chopping, clapping, clipping, coping, copping, creeping, cropping, developing, dipping, draping, dripping, drooping, dropping, eavesdropping, enveloping, equipping, escaping, flapping, flipping, flopping, galloping, gaping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, griping, gripping, groping, grouping, gulping, handicapping, harping, heaping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, hyping, keeping, kidnaping, kidnapping, landscaping, lapping, leaping, lopping, mapping, moping, mopping, napping, nipping, outstripping, overlapping, overstepping, peacekeeping, peeping, piping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, raping, rapping, reaping, recapping, recouping, regrouping, reshaping, ripping, roping, safekeeping, sapping, scalping, scooping, scoping, scraping, scrapping, seeping, shaping, shipping, shopping, sidestepping, sipping, skipping, slapping, sleeping, slipping, sloping, snapping, sniping, snooping, sopping, stepping, stereotyping, stooping, stopping, strapping, stripping, swapping, sweeping, swiping, swooping, taping, tapping, tipping, topping, trapping, tripping, trooping, typing, unwrapping, upping, usurping, videotaping, walloping, Wapping, warping, weeping, whipping, whooping, whopping, wiping, Wiretapping, worshipping, wrapping, zapping, zipping. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-m-n-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: gripman, marting, migrant, parting, prating, ramping, tamping. | |
-2 letters: arming, armpit, gratin, impart, margin, martin, mating, paring, pitman, raping, rating, taming, taping, taring. | |
-3 letters: aping, atrip, gamin, garni, giant, grain, gramp, grant, gript, inapt, inarm, matin, paint, patin, pinta, prang, prima, print, riant, tapir, tragi, train, tramp. | |
-4 letters: agin, airn, airt, amin, amir, anti, gain. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-m-n-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: imparting, ptarmigan, tampering, trampling. | |
+2 letters: comparting, impregnant, impregnate, misparting, permeating, pigmentary, ptarmigans, ramparting, restamping. | |
+3 letters: attempering, impetrating, imprecating, impregnants, impregnated, impregnates, impregnator, postmarking, prestamping, printmaking, prognathism. | |
+4 letters: camphorating, compurgation, impregnating, impregnation, impregnators, paramagnetic, preadmitting, premalignant, premarketing, premigration, printmakings, prognathisms, promulgating, promulgation, reattempting, reimplanting, trampolining. | |
+5 letters: approximating, cinematograph, compurgations, disparagement, grantsmanship, impersonating, impregnations, mastigophoran, mousetrapping, paramagnetism, parametrizing, perambulating, predominating, preformatting, premarketings, premeditating, prenominating, promulgations, slipstreaming, spermatogenic, spermatogonia, temporalizing, trampolinings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 72 61 6D 70 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .-. .- -- .--. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01110010 01100001 01101101 01110000 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T r a m p i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0072 0061 006D 0070 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5484677982758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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