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Meaning of "consuming" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CONSUMING

consuming  [kənˈsjuːmɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONSUMING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Consuming is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CONSUMING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Consumption

Consumption may refer to: Biology ▪ Consumption ▪ Consumption, an archaic name for pulmonary tuberculosis ▪ Ingestion of food and drink Economics ▪ Consumption ▪ Consumption function, an economic formula ▪ Use of final goods from a consumer until disposal Sociology ▪ Consumption...

Definition of consuming in the English dictionary

The definition of consuming in the dictionary is taking up all or a great deal of one's time, interest, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CONSUMING


all-consuming
ɔːlkənˈsjuːmɪŋ
assuming
əˈsjuːmɪŋ
blooming
ˈbluːmɪŋ
booming
ˈbuːmɪŋ
calming
ˈkɑːmɪŋ
charming
ˈtʃɑːmɪŋ
dreaming
ˈdriːmɪŋ
everblooming
ˈɛvəˌbluːmɪŋ
farming
ˈfɑːmɪŋ
grooming
ˈɡruːmɪŋ
mushrooming
ˈmʌʃruːmɪŋ
nonconsuming
ˌnɒnkənˈsjuːmɪŋ
performing
pəˈfɔːmɪŋ
presuming
prɪˈzjuːmɪŋ
screaming
ˈskriːmɪŋ
showrooming
ˈʃəʊˌruːmɪŋ
streaming
ˈstriːmɪŋ
unassuming
ˌʌnəˈsjuːmɪŋ
unpresuming
ˌʌnprɪˈzjuːmɪŋ
warming
ˈwɔːmɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONSUMING

consumer sampling
consumer society
consumer spending
consumer terrorism
consumer watchdog
consumerism
consumerist
consumeristic
Consumers´ Association
consumership
consumingly
consummate
consummately
consummation
consummative
consummatory
consummatory behaviour
consumpt
consumption
consumptive

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONSUMING

becoming
coming
filming
flaming
Fleming
forthcoming
framing
gaming
global warming
homecoming
humming
incoming
overwhelming
programming
swimming
time-consuming
timing
upcoming
welcoming
Wyoming

Synonyms and antonyms of consuming in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CONSUMING»

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

Translation of «consuming» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONSUMING

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

Translator English - Chinese

强烈的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

consumista
570 millions of speakers

English

consuming
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

खपत
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المستهلكة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

потребляя
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fulminante
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গ্রাসকারী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dévorant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Memakan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

brennend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

熱烈な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

사람을 사로잡는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mangan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tiêu thụ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சாப்பிடும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

घेणारे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tüketen
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

divorante
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

spożywanie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

споживаючи
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

consumatoare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κατανάλωση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

beslag
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

krävande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

forbruker
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of consuming

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONSUMING»

The term «consuming» is very widely used and occupies the 12.211 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONSUMING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «consuming» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «consuming» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 QUOTES WITH «CONSUMING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word consuming.
1
Mark Addy
Shooting stuff on horseback is more complicated and time consuming than anything else.
2
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.
3
Suzy Amis
You can't really call yourself an environmentalist if you're still consuming animals. You just can't.
4
Marc Andreessen
Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce.
5
Bruce Barton
The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
6
Aphra Behn
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
7
Tom Chatfield
For all the sophistication of a world in which most of our waking hours are spent consuming or interacting with media, we have scarcely advanced in our understanding of what attention means.
8
Jarvis Cocker
The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.
9
Jim Coleman
But in my college years it got to the point where my friends and I didn't do anything without consuming a massive amount of alcohol before we went anywhere or did anything, and you know that.
10
Chris Cooper
I had a couple come in with a negative amortization mortgage on a house that costs way too much relative to their income. They're consuming real estate, not investing in it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONSUMING»

Discover the use of consuming in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to consuming and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Consuming Geographies: We Are Where We Eat
The 'cultural turn' has brought identity politics and issues of consumption to the fore in geography . By exploring geographies of food consumption, Bell and Valentine examine how we all think place and identity through food.
David Bell, Gill Valentine, 2013
2
Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping, and Business in the ...
Drawing on feminist criticism, cultural studies, and new historicist ideas, Kowaleski-Wallace suveys eighteenth century literary texts, material object, and cultural events to illuminate the ways in which women are both controlled by and ...
Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace, 1997
3
Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies
Nye uses energy as a touchstone to examine the lives of ordinary people engaged in normal activities.
David E. Nye, 1999
4
Consuming Innocence: Popular Culture and Our Children
Underneath the conversational tone and common-sense advice is serious and comprehensive research. This timely book explores the complex relationship kids - from tots and tweens to teens - have with popular culture.
Karen Brooks, 2008
5
Consuming Places
In Consuming Places, Urry explores the concept of 'society', the nature of 'locality', the significance of 'economic restructuring', and how the concept of the 'rural' are examined in relationship to place.
JOHN Urry, 2002
6
Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural ...
In her unique study of American love in the twentieth century, Eva Illouz unravels the mass of images that define our ideas of love and romance, revealing that the experience of "true" love is deeply embedded in the experience of consumer ...
Eva Illouz, 1997
7
Consuming Space: Placing Consumption in Perspective
This book explores the relationship between space, place and consumption, aiming to develop integrative approaches that articulate the processes involved in the production and consumption of space and place.
Professor David Goodman, Professor Michael K Goodman, Professor Michael Redclift, 2012
8
An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern ...
"An All-Consuming Century" is a rich history of how market goods came to dominate American life over the hundred years between 1900 and 2000 and why for the first time in history there are no practical limits to consumerism.
Gary S. Cross, 2013
9
Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the ...
Delving into the history of the former Belgian colony, this book exposes the horror of day-to-day life in the Congo, largely precipitated by colonial exploitation and internal strife after gaining independence.
Peter Eichstaedt, 2011
10
Consuming the Word: The New Testament and the Eucharist in ...
Consuming the Word continues in that illustrious tradition. It brings us a powerful and welcome guide as we take our place in the great and challenging work in sharing the Good News. From the Hardcover edition.
Scott Hahn, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONSUMING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term consuming is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ne-Hi shares new all-consuming song “Drag” — listen
CoSigned indie rockers Ne-Hi are looking to follow up their impressive 2014 self-titled debut with a new album next year. As a preview of what's ... «Consequence of Sound, Jul 15»
2
Shocking videos of Tamil Nadu children consuming liquor go viral …
Chennai: With shocking videos of some children in Tamil Nadu consuming liquor going viral, PMK and MDMK on Wednesday expressed ... «IBNLive, Jul 15»
3
Romance is Comical and All-Consuming in Much Ado About …
Scarlett and Rhett. Dick and Liz. Popeye and Olive Oyl. We are always drawn to love affairs of the torrid variety, because the flame that ... «Cleveland Scene Weekly, Jul 15»
4
Fireworks damage to Corpus bridge costly, time consuming
... bridge lights Saturday night during the Fourth of July Big Bang Celebration -- damages that the City says will be costly and time consuming. «KHOU, Jul 15»
5
Rhythms: A Novel About the All-Consuming Commitment to Caring …
The three days in the present show how all-consuming caring for an elderly parent can be - particularly when that parent resides in your home. «PR Newswire, Jul 15»
6
More than 40 Islamic State fighters die after consuming poisonous Iftar
MOSUL, IRAQ: More than 40 Islamic State fighters died after consuming Iftar in Iraq's city of Mosul. According to an foreign news agency, ... «ARY NEWS, Jul 15»
7
5 Hospitalised After Consuming Instant Noodles in Shillong
Shillong: Five persons including four minors of a family were hospitalised after they consumed ready-to-eat noodles here, a senior police ... «NDTV, Jul 15»
8
5 Fall Sick After Consuming Instant Noodles
5 Fall Sick After Consuming Instant Noodles Five persons including four minors of a family were hospitalized after they consumed ready-to-eat ... «NDTV, Jul 15»
9
46 girl students taken ill after consuming food
Close to 46 girl students from the Social Welfare Residential School and Junior College, Mahendra Hills, Secunderabad, were admitted to ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
10
Fireworks Damage to Harbor Bridge Lights Costly, Time Consuming
Police are still investigating what damaged the harbor bridge lights Saturday night during the Fourth of July Big Bang Celebration -- damages ... «KIII TV3, Jul 15»

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