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Definition: Dodging |
DodgingNoun1. Nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive". 2. A statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery. 3. Deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dodging" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
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Fine Arts | Term applied to local printing control by shading and spot printing. The technique is mostly used in enlarging. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geological | Dodging is a process used to lighten areas of a photographic print during the main exposure so that the areas which need lightening receive less than the regular exposure. This process, which generally provides more image detail and reduces scene contrast, is performed by a skilled technician using their hands or a paddle over the area in need of less exposure. (references) |
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Synonyms: DodgingSynonyms: avoidance (n), dodge (n), escape (n), evasion (n), scheme (n), shunning (n), turning away (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Transference | Transit, transition; passage, ferry, gestation; portage, porterage, carting, cartage; shoveling; Verb: vection, vecture, vectitation; shipment, freight, wafture; transmission, transport, transportation, importation, exportation, transumption, transplantation, translation; shifting, dodging; dispersion; transposition; (interchange); traction. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dodging |
| Specialty definitions using "dodging": ASQUITH ♦ ROCKEFELLER. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | My favorite part about graduating now will be dodging my student loan officer for the rest of my life. (Reality Bites; writing credit: Ben Stiller, written by Helen Childress.) With pleasure and profit, and so would you. What are the odds if we don't? I sing my song for the grand jury, and spend the rest of my life dodging bullets---if I'm lucky! (The Narrow Margin; writing credit: Earl Felton; Martin Goldsmith) Draft dodging peace freaks, huh? (The Wire; writing credit: Paulinne Arpi; Povl Erik Carstensen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dodging the Dole (1936) | |
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 | Sort of like a rodeo - sort of like Pamplona Bull riding and bull dodging all in one sport. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | RA-2 running a survey line while dodging bergy bits in Tracy Arm. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Ordinary Seaman Matt Monaghan dodging the ice in RA-2. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | It was a great battle. I remember plunging down the mountain, loading and firing, dodging behind rocks, falling headlong and scrambling up again. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Dodging the issues. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | His fist splashed into the large face, and in the same motion he was away, dodging down the line of tents. |
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| "Dodging" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 95.21% of the time. "Dodging" is used about 146 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) | 95.21% | 139 | 26,913 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.42% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.37% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 146 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "dodging": dodging responsibility. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "dodging": draft-dodging, tax-dodging. | |
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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. |
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allowed cum dodging no | 8 |
dodging bullet | 5 |
draft dodging | 3 |
cum dodging no | 2 |
agent dodging jones matrix | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "dodging"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تهرب من المسؤولية (dodging responsibility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 推托 (Dodge, Dodged, Quibbled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | masquage, maquillage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ausweichend (cagey, eluding, elusive, elusively, evading, evasive, evasively, flinchingly, quibbling, shiftily, shifty, shunning, swerving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חמיק" (avoidance, evasion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 肩透かし (parrying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かたすかし (parrying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | odgingday regate (dodge, dribbling). (various references) sorumluluktan kaçmak (dodging responsibility). (various references) ухилення від удару. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "dodging": outdodging. (additional references) | |
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"Dodging" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dedgun, dodginig, Dodgion, doding, doging, Donggang, Dowgang. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dodging" (pronounced dÄ"jing) |
| 4 | -Ä" j i ng | dislodging, lodging. |
| 3 | -j i ng | acknowledging, aging, alleging, arbitraging, arranging, avenging, averaging, besieging, bridging, bulging, challenging, changing, charging, converging, cringing, damaging, discharging, discouraging, disengaging, disparaging, diverging, divulging, dredging, edging, emerging, encouraging, engaging, enlarging, enraging, exchanging, fledging, foraging, forging, fudging, gauging, gouging, grudging, hedging, hemorrhaging, imaging, indulging, infringing, judging, leveraging, lounging, lunging, managing, merging, messaging, micromanaging, mischarging, mismanaging, mortgaging, nudging, obliging, outraging, overcharging, packaging, paging, pillaging, pledging, plunging, presaging, purging, raging, rampaging, ranging, ravaging, rearranging, recharging, repackaging, resurging, rummaging, salvaging, savaging, scavenging, scrounging, shortchanging, splurging, staging, surging, trudging, unchanging, urging, verging, waging. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: godding. | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-g-g-i-n-o" | |
-2 letters: dingo, doing, going. | |
-3 letters: dido, ding, dong, gong, nodi, nogg. | |
-4 letters: did, dig, din, dog, don, gid, gig, gin, god, ion, nod, nog, odd. | |
-5 letters: do, go, id, in, no, od, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-g-g-i-n-o" | |
+1 letter: dingdong. | |
+2 letters: dingdongs. | |
+3 letters: dingdonged, dislodging, goddamming, goddamning, outdodging. | |
+4 letters: dingdonging, dogsledding, downgrading. | |
+5 letters: biodegrading, degringolade. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 64 67 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. --- -.. --. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01100100 01100111 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o d g i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 0064 0067 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38817073758073 |
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