REELING

Definition: REELING

REELING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Reel

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "REELING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Industry	The purpose of -- is to bring together the threads from 2 or more cocoons. . . to form them into one continuous, uniform and regular strand that constitutes commercial raw silk. Source: European Union. (references)
	Winding of the finished paper onto a reel at the reel-up. Source: European Union. (references)
Metallurgy	Straightening and planishing a round bar by feeding it between contoured steel rolls. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: REELING

English words defined with "REELING": dizziness ♦ giddiness ♦ lightheadedness ♦ take-up, Titubation ♦ vertigo. (references)

Specialty definitions using "REELING": cocoon unsuitable for reeling ♦ Neri silk ♦ reeler operator, reeling up, REELING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ sericin gum, silk glue, SURVEYOR OF THE HIGHWAYS ♦ to kill silk cocoons, to smother silk cocoons. (references)

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	My heart is reeling ("Big Machine"; performing artist: Goo Goo Dolls)
Movie/TV Titles	News Reeling (1928)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	The World Market for Uncarded, Uncombed Silk Waste Including Cocoons Unsuitable for Reeling, Yarn Waste, and Garnetted Stock: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Live from the Kenai River: Reeling 'Em in With Alaska's Celebrity Fishing Guide (reference) Reeling & Writhing (reference) Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 9, Textile Technology: Spinning and Reeling (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Ranting & Reeling (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Young woman reeling in her first fish of the day.Credit: Fisheries.		Reeling engine. In: "Report on the Construction and Outfit of the United States Fish Commission Steamer ALBATROSS", by Lieutenant-Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. N. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part XI. Report of the Commissioner for 1883. Plate XXV, p. 111.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
	Sigbee's machine for sounding with wire, rigged for reeling in. In: "Report on the Construction and Outfit of the United States Fish Commission Steamer ALBATROSS", by Lieutenant-Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. N. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part XI. Report of the Commissioner for 1883. Plate XXVII, p. 111.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.		Hoisting and reeling engine on the FISH-HAWK from aft looking forward. In: "Report on the Construction and Work in 1880 of United States Fish Commission Steamer FISH-HAWK", by Lieutenant Zera Luther Tanner, U. S. N. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part IX. Report of the Commissioner for 1881. Plate VI, p. 53.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
	Uncle Sam standing on a map of the United States, reeling in his fishing lines which have hooked Hawaii, the Philippines, Cuba and Puerto Rico.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Play	Caption
	Spin; roulette; wheel; oscillate; pendulate; pirouette; purl; reeling; revolve; revolving; rotate; rotating; twirl; whirl.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		A long-delayed reorganization and privatization plan was expected to materialize in 2001. Poland's membership in NATO has already brought opportunities for upgrades and adjustment in that area. Defense firms, still reeling from free market reforms, are seeking western partners. (references)
Economic History	Sri Lanka	Further, several key state trading corporations, the Ceylon Electricity Board, the Ceylon Petroleum Company and the Cooperative Wholesale Establishment are reeling under heavy debt amid large-scale corruption charges. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"REELING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 95.92% of the time. "REELING" is used about 196 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)	95.92%	188	22,417
Noun (singular)	2.04%	4	175,879
Noun (proper)	1.53%	3	202,518
Adjective (general or positive)	0.51%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	196	N/A

Expressions using "REELING": be reeling ♦ cocoon unsuitable for reeling ♦ reeling up ♦ send smb. reeling. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "REELING": reeling-machine.
	Ending with "REELING": eightsome-reeling, senses-reeling.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "REELING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏متمايل (swinging, tottering, wavering), ‏مترنح (drunken, faltering, groggy, rocky, shaky, staggering, tottering, tottery), ‏التدوير الفوتغرافي. (various references)

Chinese		卷 (Coil, Coiling, Reeled, roll, VOL). (various references)

Danish		valseretning (rotary straightening), strangåbner, oprulning (reeling up, winding), haspning (winding up), afhaspning. (various references)

Dutch		wikkelen (reeling up, roll, roll up, wind, wind up, winding, wrapping), walsrichten (rotary straightening), opwinden (abet, agitate, excite, incite, rouse, stir up, strech, wind, wind up, winding up), opwikkelen (reeling up, take up, wind, wind up), oprollen (roll, roll up, take up, to curl up, wind, wind up, winding up), afhaspeling. (various references)

Finnish		rullaus (coasting, curling, freewheeling, reeling up, roll, rolling, winding), vyyhteäminen, oikaisuvalssaus (rotary straightening). (various references)

French		vacillant, tirage, filature, enroulage (reeling up), embobinage, dressage de barres rondes, dévidage, confection des écheveaux, bobinage. (various references)

German		Wickeln (bandage, bind, coil, curling, dress, put in curlers, put in rollers, roll, roll up, rolling, swaddle, take up, to swaddle, twist, wind, wind up, winding, wrap, wreathe), Walzrichten (rotary straightening), Strangaufmachung, Spulerei (winding up), Friemeln (rotary straightening), Aufwickeln (coil, put in curlers, roll up, take up, to ball, to coil, to wind up, untie, wind, wind up, winding up), Aufspulen (coil, reel, spool, take up, to cone, to reel, to spool, to wind, wind, wind in, wind up, winding up), Aufrollen (coil, coil up, furl, go into, reel off, reeling up, roll, roll up, scroll, to curl up, to furl, turn up, uncoil, unfurl, unroll, unwind, wind, wind up), Abwickeln (carry out, complete, completely unwind, conclude, handle, liquidate, phaseout, run, take off, take up, to take up, to transact, transact, uncoil, unreel, unroll, unwind, unwinding, wind off, wind up, winding off), Abhaspeln (jabber). (various references)

Greek		ξετύλιγμα των ινών, περιέλιξη (convolution, electrical winding, inductance, spinning, wind, winding, winding up, wrap), περιτύλιξη (reeling up, winding, wrapping), ευθυγράμμιση και επιφανειακή ισοπέδωση ράβδων κυκλικής διατομής (rotary straightening), ανέμισμα, τύλιγμα (curling, furl, kink, rolling, winding, winding up, wrapping). (various references)

Hebrew		�"ת� ו�"�"ות (stagger, swag, swaying, tottering). (various references)

Indonesian		gayang (staggering). (various references)

Italian		trattura, confezione di matasse, bobinatura (reeling up, winding up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		製糸 (filature, silk reeling, spinning), 繰糸機 (silk reeling machine), 繰り糸 (silk reeling), 手繰り (reeling in, transport by passing from hand to hand). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たぐり (reeling in, transport by passing from hand to hand), そうしき (acquaintance, direction over all, funeral, silk reeling machine, supreme command), せいし (authentic history, check, chief delegate, control, family name, filature, full name, heir, history, imperial command, inhibition, life and death, looking straight ahead, meditation, oath, paper making or manufacturing, pledge, repose, restraint, senior envoy, silk reeling, sperm, spinning, standing still, stillness, successor, viewing sincerely, vow, written oath), てぐり (reeling in, transport by passing from hand to hand). (various references)

Korean		감음 (Spooling). (various references)

Manx		leaystey (balancing, bank, boggle, brandish, dangle, fluctuate, fluctuating, heel, hesitate, hesitating, hesitation, loll, lolling, oscillate, oscillation, reel, rock, rocking, roll, see-saw, sway, swaying, swerve, swing, swing back, swinging, vacillate, vacillating, vacillation, waddle; wavering, waddling; fluctuation, wave, wave of hand, waver, waver of fixture), leaystagh (hesitant, nodding, oscillatory, rocking, swinging, vibrant, waddling, wavering). (various references)

Pig Latin		eelingray

Portuguese		bobinagem (inductance, takeup, winding, winding up). (various references)

Romanian		bobinare (winding), bobinaj (winding). (various references)

Russian		наматывать (quill, reel, reel up, wind, wind up). (various references)

Spanish		presentación en madeja, enrollado (curling, reeling up, rolling, winding), devanado (electrical winding, winding), bobinado (reeling up, winding, winding up). (various references)

Swedish		rullning (coasting, curling, freewheeling, gathering, roll, rolling, twiddling, winding), valsriktning (rotary straightening), spolning (irrigation, lavement, swill), omrullning, härvning. (various references)

Turkish		sersemletmek (bemuse, bewilder, daze, dizzy, dull, fuddle, hocus, make dizzy, make giddy, send smb. reeling, stun, stupefy), serseme çevirmek (bemuse, confuse, dumbfound, make giddy, petrify, send smb. reeling). (various references)

Welsh		chwil (beetle, chafer, whirling). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "REELING": creeling, streeling, unreeling. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"REELING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: creeling, eeeling, eeling, erling, freeling, Frieling, raelian, raelign, rateling, realing, realling, Realnej, realsing, recling, reebing, reebling, reeding, reedling, reedlings, reelings, reeming, reeping, regluing, reiling, reilling, reisling, rekeying, releeing, relig, relink, relming, rewelding, Riefling, rieling, rietling, Roebling, rowelling, ruleing. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "REELING" (pronounced rē"ling)
4	-ē" l i ng	annealing, appealing, ceiling, concealing, dealing, feeling, healing, Keeling, kneeling, peeling, repealing, revealing, sealing, Seeling, squealing, stealing, unappealing, unfeeling, wheeling.
3	-l i ng	ailing, ambling, angling, appalling, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, Belling, bicycling, billing, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, channeling, chilling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, compiling, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drilling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, heckling, helling, hilling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, instilling, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, killing, kindling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, Melling, middling, milling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, misspelling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, raveling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retelling, retooling, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, seedling, selling, settling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, thrilling, throttling, Tilling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, trilling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, whaling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, willing, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yearling, yelling, yodeling.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: leering.
	Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-l-n-r"
	-1 letter: lierne, linger, reline.
	-2 letters: genie, genre, green, ingle, leger, liege, liger, liner, reign, renig.
	-3 letters: eger, erne, gene, gien, girl, girn, glee, glen, gree, grin, leer, lien, lier, line, ling, lire, reel, rein, riel, rile, ring.
	-4 letters: eel, eng, ere, erg, ern, gee, gel, gen, gie, gin, ire, lee, leg, lei, lie, lin, nee, nil, ree, reg, rei, rig, rin.
	-5 letters: el, en, er, in, li, ne, re.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-l-n-r"
	+1 letter: algerine, creeling, eloigner, engirdle, fleering, levering, lingered, lingerer, lingerie, reedling, reguline, reveling.
	+2 letters: algerines, creneling, eloigners, engirdled, engirdles, engrailed, ferreling, glycerine, greenling, greenmail, inselberg, inveigler, jeeringly, kerneling, laveering, lechering, leeringly, lengthier, lettering, lightener, lingerers, lingeries, peltering, realigned, rebelling, reedlings, refeeling, refelling, reflexing, refueling, reheeling, releasing, relending, relenting, reletting, relieving, remelting, repealing, repelling, resealing, reselling, reshingle, retelling, revealing, revelling, rewelding, ridgeline, streeling, telfering, unreeling, veeringly, weltering.
	+3 letters: allergenic, blethering, crenelling, delivering, electroing, ferrelling, fingerlike, fleeringly, freezingly, generalise, generalist, generality, generalize, gillnetter, glycerines, greenfield, greenflies, greenlings, greenmails, inselberge, inselbergs, integrable, inveiglers, kernelling, leaguering, leathering, legendries, leistering, letterings, leveraging, lighteners, malingered, malingerer, mongrelize, perplexing, pregenital, prelecting, preselling, realtering, reblending, recleaning, reelecting, reflecting, refuelling, regelating, regimental, relabeling, relearning, relegating, relegation, remodeling, repaneling, repeopling, repleading, repledging, replevying, resembling, resettling, reshingled, reshingles, resignedly, resmelting, respelling, retellings, ridgelines, ringleader, sheltering, singletree, skeltering, sweltering, telphering.
	+4 letters: bedriveling, beflowering, belligerent, bewildering, calendering, celebrating, consigliere, deflowering, delustering, desilvering, dingleberry, divergently, endearingly, ensorceling, espaliering, everlasting, farewelling, filagreeing, filigreeing, forefeeling, foretelling, freelancing, freeloading, generalised, generalises, generalists, generalized, generalizer, generalizes, generalship, generically, gibberellin, gillnetters, glengarries, glycerinate, gracileness, granitelike, greenmailed, greenmailer, impregnable, intermingle, lavendering, legendarily, legerdemain, legionaries, legionnaire, libertinage, malingerers, mongrelized, mongrelizes, necrologies, neurologies, overindulge, overleaping, overlending, overletting, overmelting, overselling, pigeonholer, praelecting, preblessing, precleaning, preclearing, preelecting, realignment, redeploying, reemploying, reenlisting, reenrolling, reexpelling, reexploring, refiltering, reflowering, refrangible, regimentals, regionalize, rejectingly, relabelling, relegations, relettering, relicensing, remodelling, repanelling, replevining, rereleasing, resilvering, resoldering, respellings, revealingly, ringleaders, seigneurial, singletrees, sovereignly, swingletree, talebearing, teleporting, ulcerogenic, unrelenting, wirelessing.
	+5 letters: accelerating, anglerfishes, bedrivelling, beggarliness, beleaguering, belligerence, belligerency, belligerents, cartwheeling, cheerleading, decelerating, decreasingly, degringolade, deliberating, dendrologies, depressingly, deregulating, deregulation, efflorescing, electrifying, electrogenic, ensorcelling, entreatingly, eternalizing, everblooming, everlastings, federalizing, freewheeling, generalising, generalities, generalizers, generalizing, generalships, generational, gibberellins, gingerliness, glycerinated, glycerinates, greenmailers, greenmailing, grislinesses, growlinesses, hearteningly, interleaving, interlending, intermingled, intermingles, intertillage, intervillage, legerdemains, legionnaires, letterboxing, libertinages, linebreeding, loganberries, mineralogies, nephrologies, numerologies, overcleaning, overclearing, overindulged, overindulges, overlearning, overpedaling, overpeopling, oversleeping, overwhelming, phrenologies, pigeonholers, precanceling, preselecting, realignments, reassembling, rechanneling, recognizable, recollecting, redelivering, redeveloping, reescalating, reevaluating, refreshingly, regionalized, regionalizes, relacquering, religionless, reliquefying, renegotiable, replastering, replenishing, reregulating, reregulation, rescheduling, sepulchering, slenderizing, sloganeering, sterlingness, swelteringly, swingletrees, talebearings, telegramming, telegraphing, telemetering, unbridgeable, underletting, underselling, unprivileged, volunteering.
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