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Definition: Picturing |
PicturingNoun1. Visual imagery. 2. Visual representation as by photography or painting. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "picturing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Synonyms: PicturingSynonyms: envisioning (n), pictorial representation (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Picturing |
| Specialty definitions using "picturing": electric lines of force. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Oh, I was just picturing what I will do to you once I am free from your little toy. You have no idea the power you try to control (ReBoot; writing credit: Christy Marx; Mark Leiren-Young) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Pre-World War I advertising card, picturing the yacht and describing her availability for charter. She served as USS Hydraulic (SP-2584) in 1918-19. Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A more complex stress test involves picturing the blood flow pattern in the heart muscle during peak exercise and after rest. A tiny amount of a radioisotope, usually thallium, is injected into a vein at peak exercise and is taken up by normal heart muscle. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Picturing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Picturing" is used about 47 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) | 100% | 47 | 49,740 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
elementary picturing statistics world | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "picturing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | تصوير (depiction, description, drawing, figuration, illustration, makings, photograph, photography, portrayal, representation, reproduction). (various references) | |
Chinese | "动描述 (Pictured). (various references) | |
French | photographie (pictures). (various references) | |
German | ausmalend, abbildend. (various references) | |
Korean | 그림 (Drawing, picture). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | icturingpay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Picturing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: picturings, pultruding. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "picturing" (pronounced pi"kkhering) |
| 5 | -k kh er i ng | fracturing, lecturing, manufacturing, nonmanufacturing, puncturing, restructuring, structuring. |
| 4 | -kh er i ng | butchering, capturing, culturing, featuring, gesturing, nurturing, posturing, recapturing, rupturing, torturing, venturing. |
| 3 | -er i ng | answering, administering, altering, anchoring, angering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, belaboring, beleaguering, bettering, bewildering, bickering, blistering, blundering, blustering, bolstering, bordering, bothering, brokering, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clamoring, clobbering, clustering, cluttering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, countering, covering, cowering, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doctoring, doddering, embroidering, empowering, encountering, endangering, endeavoring, entering, factoring, faltering, fathering, favoring, feathering, festering, figuring, filibustering, filtering, fingering, flattering, flavoring, flickering, floundering, flowering, fluttering, fostering, foundering, frittering, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, glimmering, glittering, glowering, grandfathering, guttering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hectoring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lettering, levering, lingering, littering, loitering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, massacring, mastering, maundering, meandering, measuring, mentoring, metering, minoring, mirroring, mitering, mongering, monitoring, mothering, motoring, murdering, murmuring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neighboring, neutering, numbering, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, pestering, petering, philandering, pilfering, plastering, plundering, pondering, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puttering, quivering, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, reentering, registering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, rewiring, savoring, scampering, scattering, scouring, sculpturing, sequestering, severing, shattering, sheltering, shimmering, shivering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, shuttering, simmering, slaughtering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smattering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, squandering, staggering, stuttering, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, sweltering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, teetering, tempering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, tottering, towering, transpiring, triggering, tutoring, uncovering, unflattering, unwavering, ushering, uttering, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, warmongering, watering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, wondering, Wuthering, zippering. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-i-n-p-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: pricing, tricing, trucing. | |
-3 letters: citing, citrin, curing, nitric, pignut, ricing, riping, tiring, truing, turnip, ungirt, upgirt. | |
-4 letters: cuing, cutin, gript, grunt, icing, incur, input, iring, piing, print, purin, ricin, ruing, runic, rutin, tunic, unrig, unrip. | |
-5 letters: curn, curt, girn, girt, grin, grip, grit, inti, ping, pint, pirn, prig, pung, punt, puri, ring, ruin, rung. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-i-n-p-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: outpricing. | |
+2 letters: picturizing. | |
+4 letters: computerising, computerizing, precautioning, reduplicating. | |
+5 letters: counterpoising, paralinguistic, recapitulating, superinfecting. | |
| 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. | |
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