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Definitions: CARDING |
CARDINGAdjective1. The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc., by carding it. See the Note under Card, v. t. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Card Transitive verb1. A roll of wool or other fiber as it comes from the carding machine. |
Date "CARDING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Spanish-American woman carding wool at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) project. Costilla, New Mexico.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Madame Dronet carding cotton. Erath, Louisiana.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Woman carding. Cumberland Homesteads. Crossville, Tennessee.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Ware Shoals, South Carolina. Mill no. 2, carding no. 1.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Ware Shoals, South Carolina. Mill no. 2, carding no. 2.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mr. & Mrs. Eldredge Snyder, Carding Mill farm, residence in Kellers Church, Pennsylvania. Kitchen.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mr. and Mrs. Eldredge Snyder, Carding Mill Farm, residence in Kellers Church, Pennsylvania. Bedroom I.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "CARDING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 64.71% of the time. "CARDING" is used about 17 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) | 64.71% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 17.65% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.76% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.88% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "CARDING": carding beater ♦ carding comb ♦ Carding engine ♦ carding frame ♦ carding machine ♦ carding mashine ♦ carding wool. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "CARDING": button-carding, hair-carding, wool-carding. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
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Albanian | krehje (comb out, combing, drag-net, riffle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تمشيط (mop, sweep), تسريح الصوف. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разчесване, разчепкване. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 记入卡片 (Carded). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | strigle (carding comb, cattle comb, cow comb, curry comb, currycomb, dressing, pig scraper, to curry, to dress and to brush, to groom). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | roskam (carding comb, cattle comb, cow comb, curry comb, currycomb, pig scraper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cardage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Krempel (junk, rubbish, stuff, things). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λανάρισμα μαλλιών. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | סריק" (combing, screening, search, searching, sweeping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kártolt gyapjú, kártolás (combing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | striglia (carding comb, cattle comb, cow comb, curry comb, currycomb, pig scraper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 梳綿機 (carding machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そめ"き (carding machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 카"를 "림. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | caartey (card, comb, combing, curry, spoil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ardingcay máquina de cardar (carding machine), almofaça (carding comb, cattle comb, cow comb, curry comb, currycomb, pig scraper). (various references) dãrãcit (combing, tease). (various references) чесание, прочесывание (combing). (various references) catas (refuse at carding of wool), peurda (flake of wool off the cards in the first carding). (various references) cardadura (comber noils, combing). (various references) kardning. (various references) yapağı taraması, tarama (combing, crosshatching, hachure, hachures, hatch, hatching, line drawing, scanning, screening, sweep), taraklama. (various references) máy chải len (carding machine, teasel, teazel, teazle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CARDING": cardings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "CARDING": discarding, placarding. (additional references) | |
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"CARDING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ardinghi, cadran, calding, Caradog, Cardan, Cardano, carden, cardi, cardine, Cardion, Cardoni, careing, Carfin, Carndonagh, carning, carring, carringe, Carying, Cerdan, Cerdana, cordings, Cranidge, Kardin, Khardung, sharding. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-g-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: arcing, caring, daring, gradin, racing, rancid. | |
-2 letters: acing, acrid, caird, cairn, canid, cigar, daric, dinar, drain, garni, grain, grand, grind, nadir, naric, nicad, ranid. | |
-3 letters: acid, agin, airn, arid, cadi, caid, cain, card, carn, crag, dang, darn, ding, drag, gadi, gain, gird, girn, gnar, grad, gran, grid, grin, narc, nard, ragi, raid, rain. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-g-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: arcading, carangid, cardigan, cardings, cradling. | |
+2 letters: according, arcadings, brocading, carangids, cardigans, chagrined, corrading, crusading, dackering, declaring, redacting, traducing. | |
+3 letters: adrenergic, androgenic, centigrade, chagrinned, coadmiring, corrigenda, decorating, decreasing, detracting, discarding, disgracing, gramicidin, grandchild, grandniece, placarding, radicating, radiogenic, reacceding. | |
+4 letters: accordingly, accrediting, barricading, becowarding, calendaring, calendering, cardiogenic, copyreading, demarcating, deprecating, desecrating, diffracting, discharging, distracting, eradicating, gramicidins, grandnieces, grecianized, motorcading, predicating, readdicting, reascending, reeducating, ropedancing, scabbarding, transducing, underacting, woodcarving. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 41 52 44 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-. -.. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01000001 01010010 01000100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C A R D I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0041 0052 0044 0049 004E 0047 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37355238434841 |
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