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Tramping

Definition: Tramping

Tramping

Adjective

1. 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: Tramping

Synonym: trampling (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Tramping

English words defined with "tramping": trampWalleteer. (references)
Etymologies containing "tramping": Walleteer. (references)

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Modern Usage: Tramping

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Tramping Tramps (1930)

Tom's Tramping Troupe (1917)

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

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Commercial Usage: Tramping

DomainTitle

Books

  • Camping & Tramping With Roosevelt (reference)

  • Camping and Tramping With President Roosevelt (reference)

  • Lonely Planet Tramping in New Zealand (Tramping in New Zealand, 5th Ed) (reference)

  • The Devil's Tramping Ground and Other North Carolina Mystery Stories (reference)

  • Tramping in Europe: A Walking Guide (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Tramping

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)89.39%5944,010
Adjective (general or positive)9.09%6143,867
Noun (singular)1.52%1339,140
                    Total100.00%66N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tramping

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: Tramping

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

   

Portuguese

  

pisa do barro, calcamento do barro com os pés. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

tropot, ropot (burst, ripple, round, salvo, storm, thunder, tramp), haimanalâc (loafing). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pisado (crushing, treading). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

tapyrdy (stamping). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Tramping

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).

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Rhyming with "Tramping"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "tramping" (pronounced tra"mping)
6-r a" m p i ngcramping, ramping.
5-a" m p i ngcamping, clamping, damping, lamping, revamping, stamping, tamping.
4-m p i ngantidumping, bumping, chomping, clumping, crimping, dumping, jumping, limping, lumping, pimping, pumping, romping, scrimping, skimping, slumping, stomping, stumping, swamping, thumping.
3-p i ngaping, 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.

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Anagrams: Tramping

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Tramping


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 72 61 6D 70 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    .-.    .-    --    .--.    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01110010 01100001 01101101 01110000 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#114 &#97 &#109 &#112 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0072 0061 006D 0070 0069 006E 0067

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5484677982758073

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INDEX

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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