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Definition: Assuring |
AssuringAdjective1. Giving confidence. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "assuring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Crosswords: Assuring |
| English words defined with "assuring": To levy a fine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "assuring": cap light, Center for Veterinary Medicine, Commodity Credit Corporation ♦ MAINTAINABILITY ENGINEER, mechanical joint, mechanical means of obtaining soundness ♦ National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ♦ protection of portable programs, protection of software portability ♦ Radiation Monitoring, refuge. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "assuring": Assure. (references) |
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 | Aligning iced-bar base apparatus with striding level Assuring iced-bar apparatus is horizontal Fig. No. 5, Appendix No. 3, Report of Superintendent ... 1901, p. 244. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Egyptian tomb painting from 1450 B.C. showing officer with sounding pole Officer is telling crew to come ahead slow Engineers with cat-o'-nine-tails assuring proper response from engines. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Figure 29. Gilson sounder, described in 1906 by Gustave Gilson of the University of Louvain. He described a perfected scoop sounder which was similar to the Stellwagen sounder but contained a number of improvements for assuring a larger quantity of sediment obtained than with the earlier instrument. It was first tested in 1899 near Ostende off the coast of Belgium. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Andrew Carnegie | Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. |
Henry Kissinger | We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | A special tribunal will be constituted to try the accused, thereby assuring him the guarantees essential to the right of defence. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Moreover, they can be stored for 5 days, assuring a stable community resource. (references) | |
We also don't recommend UV lights for disinfection because of the considerations above, the difficulties in assuring continued strength of the radiation at the site for disinfection, and possible health effects. (references) | ||
Identification of ways of assuring access to assessment, monitoring, and coordinated medical, technical, psychosocial, and community support services for infants at risk should be a priority of regional, state, and Federal authorities. (references) | ||
Business | The novelty in this Polish law is the fact that the manufacturer takes sole responsibility for assuring the safety of the product. (references) | |
The digitizing of the network (almost 100% of the basic telephone operators' network is digitized), fiber optics, high-speed digital synchronic transmission, SSD, integrated systems, and many other technologies and improvements allowed the gradual incorporation of new services assuring irreversible industry progress. (references) | ||
Economic History | Sri Lanka | The 1978 constitution, while assuring freedom of religion, grants primacy to Buddhism. (references) |
Indonesia | Without a credible external threat in the region, the military historically viewed its prime mission as assuring internal security. (references) | |
Panama | Panama privatized its power generation and distribution facilities in 1998, taking in over US$600 million in sales and assuring needed investment. (references) | |
Human Rights | Guatemala | Individuals also could bribe the court to lose the file of a person in pretrial detention, thus assuring that that person would remain in jail indefinitely. (references) |
San Marino | The judicial system requires that the country's lower court judges be noncitizens, with the aim of assuring impartiality; most lower court judges are Italian. (references) | |
Guinea-Bissau | The office of the Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary General (UNOGBIS) visited high profile prisoners during the year, and was instrumental in assuring their well being and providing them with food and medical care. (references) | |
Political Rights | Singapore | The PAP has used the threat to withdraw benefits as a means of assuring popular support. (references) |
Trade | Pakistan | Export-Cum-Import: The Ministry of Commerce allows export-cum-imports in case of repairs and replacement of imported items, subject to the conditions that the applicant will submit an indemnity bond assuring that the goods will be re-imported after repair and replacement. (references) |
Worker Rights | Kyrgyz Republic | The law establishes occupational health and safety standards, as well as enforcement procedures; besides government inspection teams, trade unions are assigned active roles in assuring compliance with these laws, but there is uneven compliance record among businesses. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | REFUGE, n. Anything assuring protection to one in peril. Moses and Joshua provided six cities of refuge -- Bezer, Golan, Ramoth, Kadesh, Schekem and Hebron -- to which one who had taken life inadvertently could flee when hunted by relatives of the deceased. This admirable expedient supplied him with wholesome exercise and enabled them to enjoy the pleasures of the chase; whereby the soul of the dead man was appropriately honored by observations akin to the funeral games of early Greece. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | But every appearance assuring such an issue as will redound to the reputation and strength of the United States, I have judged it most proper to resume my duties at the seat of Government, leaving the chief command with the governor of Virginia. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | In the peacetime economy the Reconstruction Finance Corporation will take the leadership in assuring adequate financing for small enterprises which cannot secure funds from other sources. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | While substantial progress has been made in assuring a consumer presence in Federal agencies, work must continue to meet fully the goals of the Executive Order. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | The American people have already stepped up their rate of saving, assuring that the funds needed to modernize our factories and improve our technology will once again flow to business and industry. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | That would be a big step toward assuring quality health care for all Americans, young and old. |
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| "Assuring" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.46% of the time. "Assuring" is used about 118 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) | 97.46% | 115 | 30,138 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.54% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 118 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "assuring": re-assuring. | |
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| 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 |
assuring | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "assuring"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 保证 (Assurance, Assure, Ensure, guarantee, guaranteed, Guaranteeing, Guarantees, Guarantied, guaranty, Guarantying, Sureties, surety, Warrant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | assurant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | zusichernd, versichernd (insuring, reassuring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 확 (Conviction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | assuringay гарантировать (assure, assures, ensure, guaranteed, secure, undertake, underwrite, underwrote, warrant). (various references) försäkrande. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "assuring": reassuring. (additional references) | |
Words containing "assuring": reassuringly. (additional references) | |
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"Assuring" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: assuing, assuren, assuringly, azaserine, Marsurin, sauring. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "assuring" (pronounced ushuh"ring) |
| 6 | u sh uh" r i ng | reassuring. |
| 5 | -sh uh" r i ng | ensuring, insuring. |
| 4 | -uh" r i ng | alluring, curing, during, enduring, luring, maturing, mooring, obscuring, procuring, securing, touring. |
| 3 | -r i ng | acquiring, adhering, admiring, adoring, airing, appearing, aspiring, baring, barring, bearing, bioengineering, blaring, boring, caring, chairing, charring, cheering, childbearing, clearing, comparing, conspiring, daring, declaring, deploring, despairing, disappearing, domineering, earring, electioneering, endearing, engineering, expiring, exploring, fearing, firing, flaring, flooring, gearing, glaring, Goring, haring, hearing, herring, hiring, ignoring, impairing, imploring, inspiring, interfering, jarring, jeering, marring, ministering, nearing, outpouring, overbearing, overhearing, overpowering, pairing, paring, peering, perspiring, pioneering, poring, pouring, premiering, preparing, profiteering, quiring, racketeering, rearing, reengineering, rehearing, rehiring, repairing, restoring, retiring, roaring, scaring, scarring, scoring, searing, sharing, shearing, shoring, smearing, snaring, sneering, snoring, soaring, sparing, sparring, Spearing, squaring, staring, starring, steering, stevedoring, storing, swearing, tarring, tearing, tiring, uncaring, underscoring, uninspiring, unsparing, veering, volunteering, Waring, warring, wearing, wiring. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-r-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: assign, grains, rasing, sarins, sugars, unrigs. | |
-3 letters: airns, argus, arsis, auris, gains, garni, gaurs, gauss, girns, gnars, grain, grans, grass, grins, guans, guars, naris, nisus, ragis, rains, ranis, rings, risus, ruing, ruins, rungs, sains, sarin, saris, sasin, signs, sings, sinus, snags, snugs, sugar, suing, suras, unais, unrig, using. | |
-4 letters: agin, ains, airn, airs. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-r-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: singulars. | |
+2 letters: cuirassing, granulosis, reassuming, reassuring, signatures, surceasing, surfacings, surpassing. | |
+3 letters: ignoramuses, languishers, stranguries, summarising, supergiants, transfusing. | |
+4 letters: agribusiness, baserunnings, bushrangings, fundraisings, gourmandises, gourmandisms, graciousness, pasteurising, reassuringly, sanguinarias, secularising, singularizes, subrogations, surpassingly, transfigures, unaggressive, unharnessing, vanguardisms, vanguardists. | |
+5 letters: angiospermous, gastrocnemius, gastrulations, guardianships, housewarmings, prussianising, prussianizing, resuscitating, sequestrating, singularities, somersaulting, suburbanising, superagencies, superorganism, urbanologists. | |
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