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It's always crude to link Dickens back to the blacking factory where he was sent to work aged 12 when his father was imprisoned in Marshalsea Prison for bad debt, but it was obviously a huge part of him.
Harry Lloyd

Meaning of "blacking" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BLACKING

blacking  [ˈblækɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BLACKING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Blacking is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BLACKING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of blacking in the English dictionary

The definition of blacking in the dictionary is any preparation, esp one containing lampblack, for giving a black finish to shoes, metals, etc.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BLACKING


attacking
əˈtækɪŋ
backing
ˈbækɪŋ
backpacking
ˈbækpækɪŋ
barebacking
ˈbeəbækɪŋ
cracking
ˈkrækɪŋ
fast-tracking
ˈfɑːstˌtrækɪŋ
fracking
ˈfrækɪŋ
hacking
ˈhækɪŋ
hijacking
ˈhaɪdʒækɪŋ
meatpacking
ˈmiːtpækɪŋ
packing
ˈpækɪŋ
racking
ˈrækɪŋ
sacking
ˈsækɪŋ
shellacking
ʃəˈlækɪŋ
smacking
ˈsmækɪŋ
stacking
ˈstækɪŋ
tacking
ˈtækɪŋ
tracking
ˈtrækɪŋ
unpacking
ʌnˈpækɪŋ
whacking
ˈwækɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BLACKING

blackgame
blackguard
blackguardism
blackguardly
blackgum
blackhander
blackhead
blackheart
Blackheath
blackish
blackishly
blackjack
blackjack oak
blackland
blacklead
blackleg
blacklegged
blacklegging
blacklist

WORDS THAT END LIKE BLACKING

banking
blocking
checking
clicking
docking
fucking
kicking
knocking
lacking
licking
locking
mocking
overclocking
picking
rocking
shocking
stocking
sucking
trafficking
trucking
wrecking

Synonyms and antonyms of blacking in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BLACKING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «blacking» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of blacking

Translation of «blacking» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BLACKING

Find out the translation of blacking to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of blacking from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «blacking» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

发黑
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

blacking
570 millions of speakers

English

blacking
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पालिश
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الصبغة السوداء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

чернение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

enegrecendo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জুতা পালিশ করিবার কাল কালি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

noircissant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hitam
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ofenschwärze
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

靴墨
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

검게
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ireng
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

blacking
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கருமையாக்கல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ब्लॅकिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ayakkabı boyası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

crema per le scarpe
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

blokowanie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

чорніння
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cremă de ghete
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συσκοτίζοντας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skoen
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

blacking
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mørkla
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of blacking

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BLACKING»

The term «blacking» is regularly used and occupies the 92.346 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BLACKING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about blacking

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QUOTES WITH «BLACKING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word blacking.
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Harry Lloyd
It's always crude to link Dickens back to the blacking factory where he was sent to work aged 12 when his father was imprisoned in Marshalsea Prison for bad debt, but it was obviously a huge part of him.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLACKING»

Discover the use of blacking in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to blacking and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
How Musical is Man?
If John Blacking's guess about the biological and social origins of music is correct, or even only partly correct, it would generate new ideas about the nature of musicality, the role of music in education and its general role in societies ...
John Blacking, 1973
2
Music, Culture, and Experience: Selected Papers of John Blacking
This volume brings together in one convenient source eight of Blacking's most important theoretical papers along with an extensive introduction by the editor.
John Blacking, Reginald Byron, Bruno Nettl, 1995
3
'A Commonsense View of All Music': Reflections on Percy ...
John Blacking restates and reflects upon observations and attitudes relevant to contemporary problems of ethnomusicology and music education.
John Blacking, 1990
4
Venda Children's Songs: A Study in Ethnomusicological Analysis
This series of essays and articles on the music of the Venda people of the northern Transvaal in South Africa constitutes his major scholarly legacy.
John Blacking, 1967
5
London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the ...
of the vendors, that of the wholesale blacking makers, two have themselves been street-sellers, and one still, but only at intervals, goes " on a blacking-round" among his old customers. There are other blacking-makers, but those I have ...
Henry Mayhew, 1851
6
The Performing Arts: Music and Dance
Non-Aboriginal material.
John Blacking, Joann W. Kealiinohomoku, 1979
7
Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes ...
The French word " Cirage," however, renders it extremely probable that modem blacking was originally composed chiefly of wax and tallow, and probably lampblack ; and somewhat similar, therefore, to harness-blacking. That ordinary ...
Great Britain. Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, 1852
8
The Colossal P.T. Barnum Reader: Nothing Else Like it in the ...
When the great blacking-maker of London dispatched his agent to Egypt to write on the pyramids of Ghiza, in huge letters, "Buy Warren's Blacking, 30, Strand, London," he was not "cheating" travelers upon the Nile. His blacking was really a  ...
Phineas Taylor Barnum, James W. Cook, 2005
9
The Musical Human: Rethinking John Blacking's ...
in which influential men used the music of Haydn, Mozart, and many others' ( Blacking, 1967:23). s Thus, Byron's criteria for selecting the eight papers by Blacking included in Music, Culture, and Experience were that they should be about ...
Suzel Ana Reily, 2006
10
Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes ...
14D2 BLACKING MAKERS; UNITED STATES, FRANCE, &c. [Class XXIX. there is no liability afterwards that the blacking (if it wet the cork) will exude by the expansion of the air contained in the bottle, as it is not likely to become again heated ...
Great Exhibition (1851, London), 1852

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLACKING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term blacking is used in the context of the following news items.
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Wimbledon 2015: Nick Kyrgios fans smear Vegemite and Nutella on …
Fans of new Wimbledon enfant terrible Nick Kyrgios have been accused of “blacking up” after expressing their support for the Australian star by ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
Pueblo woman wants to find good samaritan who saved her life
Cathy is counting her blessings she's still alive after blacking out from having low blood sugar levels. “It could have been a really nasty situation,” she said. «KOAA.com Colorado Springs and Pueblo News, Jul 15»
3
Nick Swardson on Taste It and Aging in Stand-up
And obviously I'm not going to be a 60- or 70-year-old comedian talking about blacking out. [Laughs] Getting hammered. But I'm honestly just ... «Paste Magazine, Jul 15»
4
One of Us: Brett Parks considers himself a 'miracle man' after …
He had a hard time talking, couldn't stand for more than a few seconds without blacking out and had to undergo dialysis for four hours a day ... «Florida Times-Union, Jul 15»
5
Inventions that changed cricket on TV
The sight of a whizzing yorker blacking out the feed is also an entertaining one. Reaction Time: This technology calculates the time the ball took ... «Sportskeeda, Jul 15»
6
Battle of Britain pilots share tales of lives as 'The Few' at Bridgnorth …
... pull round him in a steep turn, and I mean steep, you were almost stalling, the plane was juddering and you were on the edge of blacking out. «shropshirestar.com, Jul 15»
7
England's women rated... and where to see them play now
Duggan's likely to be shielded a little bit from the media glare – she's had run-ins in recent months, with incidents such as “blacking up” for a ... «Eurosport.co.uk, Jul 15»
8
Required Reading
Blacking up on Twitter did not make Vanessa Place black. Instead, the Internet has consolidated our new tribal clubhouses, as group identities ... «Hyperallergic, Jul 15»
9
Ormie King: Some faded Auburn photos for the summer
... C. George Wallace, person unknown, Louise Blacking, Howard Short, Nina Wallace, C. Elmer Stanton; sitting from left, Mary Stanton, Marge ... «Auburn Citizen, Jul 15»
10
Loose Women's Sherri Hewson reveals how she feared she was …
Sherrie, who had chosen to visit the clinic alone, says: “The next thing I remember after blacking out is the doctor hitting my hand saying, 'Wake ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»

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