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Definition: Downing |
DowningNoun1. United States landscape architect who designed the grounds of the White House and the Capitol Building (1815-1852). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Downing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Synonym: DowningSynonym: Andrew Jackson Downing (n). (additional references) |
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Downing is a village located in Dunn County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 257.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Downing, Missouri."
Crosswords: Downing |
| English words defined with "Downing": Downing Street ♦ Pear blight. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Downing": College Colours ♦ Downing Professor. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Downing": Gravenstein. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yes, I am smoking cigarettes and some of my friends have died of them, but I am not downing a quart of Scotch in fifteen minutes. (Blue in the Face; writing credit: Paul Auster; Wayne Wang) | |
Lyrics | Where they're downing only deer (RHYTHM OF MY HEART; performing artist: Rod Stewart) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Destination Downing Street (1957) The Man from Downing Street (1922) Downing an Uprising (1919) The Girl from Downing Street (1918) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Major Jack Downing!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Samuel Downing. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The M-7 is the Army's newest tank destroyer and is being given the acid test for desert warfare in the maneuvers near Iron Mountains, California. Colonel R. Downing of DeKalb, Missouri, Corporal L. Roberts from Graham, Texas, and Lieutenant M. Hutchison,. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Gila Forest Camp, N. Mex., 109th Engr's., 34th Div., June 1918, Col. F. E. Downing, C.O. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Economic History | Georgia | Although the situation in these regions has calmed considerably, there was renewed violence in Abkhazia in 1998 and partisan activity continues in these regions, resulting in the downing of a UN helicopter in October 2001. Both regions' status remains unresolved and the central government does not have effective control of these areas. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Downing" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 93.56% of the time. "Downing" is used about 775 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 |
| Noun (proper) | 93.56% | 725 | 9,302 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 4.25% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.16% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.77% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (common) | 0.26% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 775 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Downing" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Downing | Last name | 11,000 | 1,106 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Downing, MO (city, FIPS 19990) 2. Downing, WI (village, FIPS 20675) |
Expressions using "Downing": Andrew Jackson Downing ♦ downing street. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Downing": Downing-street. | |
Ending with "Downing": fretwell-downing, pint-downing. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "Downing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Qeveria Britanike (Downing street, Whitehall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Британското Правителство (Downing street, Whitehall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 击' (Downed, knockdown, knock-down, knockout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | le président du Conseil et le président de la Commission seront invités participer celles des séances de la réunion au Sommet de Downing Street, au cours desquelles seront discutés les sujets qui relèvent de la compétence communautaire. Les (the President of the Council and the President of the Commission will be invited to take part in those sessions of the Downing Street Summit at which items which are within the competence of the Community are discussed. Examples of such items are negotiat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ruinierend (dilapidating, marring, scuttling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | downing street (downing street). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 足取り (downing an opponent by grabbing his leg, gait, manner of walking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | あしとり (downing an opponent by grabbing his leg). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 떨어뜨림. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | owningday o governo (administration, downing street). (various references) guvernul britanic (downing street, Whitehall). (various references) даунинг. (various references) vlada velike britanije (Downing street). (various references) londra'da hükümet binalarının olduğu sokak (downing street), ingiliz hükümeti (british government, downing street). (various references) nơi tập trung các cơ quan trung ương (downing street). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "Downing": landowning. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Downing": landownings. (additional references) | |
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"Downing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dowdings, Downin, Downings, downsian, fowning, mowning, towning. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Downing" (pronounced dou"ning) |
| 4 | -ou" n i ng | Browning, clowning, crowning, drowning, frowning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abandoning, abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, apportioning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, draining, droning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-i-n-n-o-w" | |
-1 letter: dowing, owning. | |
-2 letters: dingo, doing, indow, owing. | |
-3 letters: ding, dong, down, gowd, gown, nodi, wind, wing, wino. | |
-4 letters: dig, din, dog, don, dow, gid, gin, god, inn, ion, nod, nog, now, own, wig, win, wog, won. | |
-5 letters: do, go, id, in, no, od, on, ow, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-i-n-n-o-w" | |
+1 letter: drowning, endowing, indowing, wounding. | |
+2 letters: bringdown, disowning, downswing, drownding, drownings, swounding, windowing, wondering. | |
+3 letters: bringdowns, decrowning, downsizing, downswings, landowning, outwinding, reendowing, windrowing, wrongdoing. | |
+4 letters: discrowning, disendowing, downgrading, downloading, downplaying, downscaling, hoodwinking, landownings, overwinding, wrongdoings. | |
+5 letters: downshifting, snowboarding. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 77 6E 69 6E 67 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. --- .--. -. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01110111 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o w n i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 0077 006E 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)38818980758073 |
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