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Definition: DAMMING |
DAMMINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Dam |
Date "DAMMING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | The seal at the posterior border of a denture. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: DAMMING |
| English words defined with "DAMMING": millpond. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DAMMING": coulee lake ♦ log jam. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Men chopping wood, damming stream, and washing ore demonstrate a sluicing method for obtaining stones from which tin is made. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "DAMMING" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 65.22% of the time. "DAMMING" is used about 23 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 65.22% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 26.09% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 8.7% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "DAMMING": damming body ♦ damming stage ♦ debris damming ♦ posterior damming. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
damming pussy | 4 |
damming | 3 |
ice damming | 2 |
damming pussy semen | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DAMMING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 筑坝于 (Dammed). (various references) | |
Danish | daemningsmur (damming wall), vaeksthusafgroeder bliver vandet ved opstemningsmetoder eller ved hjaelp af roerledninger med fordelerdyser (glasshouse crops are irrigated by the damming method or by pipelines with distributor nozzles), tværkamplov (basin lister, basin tiller, damm lister, damming lister, tie-ridger), tilbehør til tværkamplov (damming attachment), opstuvning (damming up of water), opstemningstrin (damming stage), opdaemning af vand (damming up of water), opdæmningslegeme (damming body), inddaemning af en kilde (damming off a spring), chylusstase (damming up of chyle). (various references) | |
Dutch | dam (dam, dame, king, lady, queen), waterkerende muur (damming wall), warmtebewarend (heat damming up), stuwdam (dam), sleuventrekker-aandrukker (basin lister, basin tiller, damm lister, damming lister, tie-ridger), opstuwing van water (damming up of water), omkaden van een wel (damming off a spring), glascultuur wordt bevloeid door middel van het opstuwen van water of via buisleidingen met sproeiers (glasshouse crops are irrigated by the damming method or by pipelines with distributor nozzles), afsluiter (damming attachment, isolating valve, shut-off valve, shutting-off device, terminator, valve). (various references) | |
Finnish | veden patoutuminen (damming up of water). (various references) | |
French | dispositif cloisonneur (damming attachment), isolant thermiquement (heat damming up), billonneur-cloisonneur (damm lister, damming lister), cloisonneur (damm lister, damming lister), corps de retenue (damming body), embâcle (debris damming), endiguement de l'eau (damming up of water), étage de retenue (damming stage), endiguement postérieur (posterior damming), refoulement chyleux (damming up of chyle), les cultures sous verre sont arrosées par refoulement ou l'aide de canalisations munies de buses d'arrosage (glasshouse crops are irrigated by the damming method or by pipelines with distributor nozzles), mur d'endiguement (damming wall), obstruction du lit avec effet de barrage (debris damming), p.h.e.n. (highest navigable flood level without damming), plus hautes eaux navigables sans retenue (highest navigable flood level without damming), postdam (posterior damming), endiguement d'une source (damming off a spring). (various references) | |
German | staünd (damming up). (various references) | |
Greek | κατασκευή αναχωμάτων γύρω από μια πηγή (damming off a spring), υδατοφράκτης (damming stage), φράγμα (barricade, barrier, dam, dike, groyne), αυλακωτήρας διανοίξεως χανδάκων (basin lister, basin tiller, damm lister, damming lister, tie-ridger), οι θερμοκηπιακές καλλιέργειες αρδεύονται με την μέθοδο των φραγμάτωνη με την βοήθεια σωληνώσεων εφοδιασμένων με στόμια διανομής του νερο (glasshouse crops are irrigated by the damming method or by pipelines with distributor nozzles), θερμομονωτικό (heat damming up), διάταξη αυλακωτήρα αποτελούμενου από πολλά εξαρτήματα (damming attachment). (various references) | |
Hebrew | סכיר" (closing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | duzzasztás (banking-up, bulge, calking of tubes, caulking of tubes, gathering, pending, swelling). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pengempangan (blocking, damming up), pembendungan (damming up, impounding, stemming). (various references) | |
Italian | dispositivo per solchi sbarrati (damming attachment), stadio di ritenuta (damming stage), ostruzione del letto con effetto di sbarramento (debris damming), muro di arginatura (damming wall), corpo rigurgitante (damming body), conservante il calore (heat damming up), circondamento d'un fontanazzo (damming off a spring), arginatore per solchi sbarrati (basin lister, basin tiller, damm lister, damming lister, tie-ridger), arginamento dell'acqua (damming up of water). (various references) | |
Korean | 둑으로 막음. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ammingday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | dispositivo margeador (damming attachment), derregador margeador (basin lister, basin tiller, damm lister, damming lister, tie-ridger), regurgitação quilosa (damming up of chyle), isolante térmico (heat damming up), corpo de retenção (damming body), contensão da água (damming up of water), as culturas em estufa são irrigadas por encharcamento ou por tubagem munida de aspersores (glasshouse crops are irrigated by the damming method or by pipelines with distributor nozzles), andar de retensão (damming stage). (various references) | |
Spanish | embalse (dam, reservoir). (various references) | |
Swedish | värmeisolerande (heat damming up), uppdämning av vatten (damming up of water). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "DAMMING": goddamming. (additional references) | |
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"DAMMING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dambijn, damin, demign, Demming, Demmings, demnig, dimin, Dimomona, draming, tamming, Tomming. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DAMMING" (pronounced da"ming) |
| 5 | d a" m i ng | damning. |
| 4 | -a" m i ng | cramming, jamming, lambing, ramming, slamming. |
| 3 | -m i ng | acclaiming, affirming, aiming, alarming, arming, assuming, barnstorming, beaming, becoming, blaming, blooming, blossoming, bombing, booming, bottoming, brainstorming, brimming, calming, charming, claiming, climbing, combing, coming, condemning, confirming, conforming, consuming, daydreaming, deprogramming, diagraming, dimming, disarming, disclaiming, dooming, dreaming, drumming, dumbing, embalming, exclaiming, farming, filming, firebombing, firming, flaming, foaming, forming, forthcoming, framing, fuming, gaming, gleaming, gloaming, grooming, harming, heartwarming, helming, hemming, homecoming, homing, humming, incoming, inflaming, informing, lemming, liming, looming, maiming, mainstreaming, misinforming, mushrooming, naming, nonperforming, numbing, oncoming, outperforming, overcoming, overwhelming, performing, plumbing, presuming, priming, proclaiming, programing, programming, reaffirming, rearming, reclaiming, redeeming, reforming, renaming, reprogramming, resuming, rhyming, roaming, rooming, scheming, screaming, seeming, shaming, shortcoming, skimming, slimming, squirming, steaming, stemming, storming, streaming, strumming, succumbing, summing, swarming, swimming, taming, teaming, teeming, terming, thumbing, timing, transforming, trimming, unassuming, unbecoming, upcoming, vacuuming, warming, welcoming, zooming. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-i-m-m-n" | |
-2 letters: gamin. | |
-3 letters: agin, amid, amin, damn, dang, ding, gadi, gain, imam, magi, maid, maim, main, mina, mind. | |
-4 letters: aid, aim, ain, ami, and, ani, dag, dam, dig, dim, din, gad, gam, gan, gid, gin, mad, mag, man, mid, mig, mim, nag, nam, nim. | |
-5 letters: ad, ag, ai, am, an, id, in, ma, mi, mm. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-i-m-m-n" | |
+1 letter: dramming. | |
+2 letters: gammadion, mridangam. | |
+3 letters: bemadaming, commanding, goddamming, mismanaged, mridangams. | |
+4 letters: diagramming, gourmandism, mandamusing, windjamming. | |
+5 letters: commandingly, diamagnetism, gourmandisms, macadamizing, micromanaged, windjammings. | |
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