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Definition: Unreeling |
UnreelingAdjective1. Unwinding from or as if from a reel; "recorded on the unreeling film inside her"; "a long unwinding silk cocoon". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unreeling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references) |
Synonym: UnreelingSynonym: unwinding (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: vessel for unreeling the silk threads from cocoons (european union, industry). |
Crosswords: Unreeling |
| English words defined with "unreeling": unwinding. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unreeling": asphalt-machine operator ♦ CUTTER OPERATOR ♦ IMPREGNATING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ PAPERBACK-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ weaving-machine operator. (references) |
| "Unreeling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Unreeling" is used about 6 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) | 66.67% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 33.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "unreeling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 退卷 (unreel). (various references) | ||||
German | abspulend. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eelingunray | ||||
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"Unreeling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unbreaking, undeling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-l-n-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: reguline. | |
-2 letters: enuring, genuine, ingenue, leering, neurine, nurling, reeling. | |
-3 letters: engine, ginner, gluier, gunnel, gunner, lierne, ligure, linger, lungee, lunger, lunier, luring, reglue, reguli, reline, ruling, runnel, uglier, unreel. | |
-4 letters: ennui, enure, genie, genre, gluer, green, gruel, guile, ingle, inner, inure, inurn, leger, liege, liger, linen, liner, luger, lunge, lungi, reign, renig, renin, ruing. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-l-n-n-r-u" | |
+2 letters: unrelenting. | |
+3 letters: underletting, underselling, volunteering. | |
+4 letters: outgeneraling, overindulgent, unbelligerent, underwhelming, unrelentingly. | |
+5 letters: denuclearizing, disgruntlement, fortunetelling, grandiloquence, neurogenically, overindulgence, unrecognizable. | |
| 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)55 6E 72 65 65 6C 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .-. . . .-.. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110010 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n r e e l i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0072 0065 0065 006C 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558084717178758073 |
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