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The 'old' Internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb. Sure, Google can crawl Facebook's 'public pages,' but those represent a tiny fraction of the 'pages' on Faceboo, and are not informed by the crucial signals of identity and relationship which give those pages meaning.
John Battelle

Meaning of "shrinking" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SHRINKING

shrinking  [ˈʃrɪŋkɪŋ] play
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WHAT DOES SHRINKING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Shrink

Shrink can refer to: ▪ Miniaturization ▪ Resizing ▪ "Shrink" or "head shrinker", slang term for a mental health professional such as a psychiatrist or psychologist ▪ Shrinkage, a retail term for any merchandise unaccounted for at the time of inventory ▪ Shrink, the fourth album by German indie rock/electronica group The Notwist ▪ Shrink, a Yu-Gi-Oh! card, printed in the TCG as a Shonen Jump Championship promo ▪ Shrink, an experiment from Lilo & Stitch ▪ Shrink , the sixth book in the Special X series by Michael Slade, also known as Primal Scream ▪ Shrink, an independent drama film starring Kevin Spacey ▪ Shrink, a French band of garage rock...

Definition of shrinking in the English dictionary

The definition of shrinking in the dictionary is becoming smaller.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SHRINKING


blinking
ˈblɪŋkɪŋ
drinking
ˈdrɪŋkɪŋ
freethinking
ˌfriːˈθɪŋkɪŋ
hard-drinking
ˌhɑːdˈdrɪŋkɪŋ
index-linking
ˌɪndeksˈlɪŋkɪŋ
nondrinking
ˌnɒnˈdrɪŋkɪŋ
nonthinking
ˌnɒnˈθɪŋkɪŋ
pinking
ˈpɪŋkɪŋ
plinking
ˈplɪŋkɪŋ
quick-thinking
ˌkwɪkˈθɪŋkɪŋ
right-thinking
ˈraɪtˌθɪŋkɪŋ
sinking
ˈsɪŋkɪŋ
slinking
ˈslɪŋkɪŋ
stinking
ˈstɪŋkɪŋ
thinking
ˈθɪŋkɪŋ
unblinking
ʌnˈblɪŋkɪŋ
unshrinking
ʌnˈʃrɪŋkɪŋ
unthinking
ʌnˈθɪŋkɪŋ
unwinking
ʌnˈwɪŋkɪŋ
winking
ˈwɪŋkɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHRINKING

shrinal
shrine
shrinelike
shrink
shrink fit
shrink wrap
shrink-wrap
shrink-wrapped
shrink-wrapping
shrinkable
shrinkage
shrinker
shrinking violet
shrinkingly
shrinkpack
shritch
shrive
shrivel
shrivelled
shrivelling

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHRINKING

banking
binge drinking
bonking
booking
e-banking
high-ranking
home banking
lateral thinking
m-banking
Nanking
planking
positive thinking
quick thinking
ranking
retail banking
spanking
tanking
telephone banking
top-ranking
trunking
wishful thinking

Synonyms and antonyms of shrinking in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SHRINKING»

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

Translation of «shrinking» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHRINKING

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

Translator English - Chinese

萎缩
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

encogimiento
570 millions of speakers

English

shrinking
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सिकुड़
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تقلص
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сокращается
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

encolhendo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কুঁচন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

contraction
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mengecut
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schrumpfung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

縮小
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

축소
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nyusut
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thu hẹp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுருங்கி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आक्रसणारे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

büzülür
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

contrazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kurczy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

скорочується
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

în scădere
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συρρίκνωση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

krimp
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

krympning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

krymper
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of shrinking

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHRINKING»

The term «shrinking» is very widely used and occupies the 23.226 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHRINKING» OVER TIME

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

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10 QUOTES WITH «SHRINKING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word shrinking.
1
Karen Abbott
By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.
2
John Battelle
The 'old' Internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb. Sure, Google can crawl Facebook's 'public pages,' but those represent a tiny fraction of the 'pages' on Faceboo, and are not informed by the crucial signals of identity and relationship which give those pages meaning.
3
Peter Coyote
Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station.
4
Davy Crockett
The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.
5
Anne-Marie Duff
I was desperately shy when I was wee. Totally lacked confidence socially. When I look back at school photographs, I'm always the one shrinking in the back. What I really wanted to do was become a writer, and I don't think the residue of that has ever gone away. I still feel the ultimate achievement would be to write a novel.
6
Christine Ebersole
I go where the revolution is, and the revolution is Ron Paul. Ron Paul is a champion of the Constitution. He's about getting rid of the Federal Reserve and shrinking federal government.
7
Henry Louis Gates
People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.
8
Al Gore
The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.
9
Os Guinness
American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
10
Joan Halifax
Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHRINKING»

Discover the use of shrinking in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to shrinking and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Shrinking Violet
High school senior Teresa Adams is so painfully shy that she dreads speaking to anyone in the hallways or getting called on in class.
Danielle Joseph, 2009
2
The Shrinking of Treehorn
A boy discovers he is shrinking but does not know the cause or cure.
Florence Parry Heide, 1992
3
Shrinking the Cat: Genetic Engineering Before We Knew about ...
The author of Waiting for Aphrodite explains how humankind has been tinkering with genes for years before recent developments in genetic engineering, focusing on four key species created by humans--the domestic cat, corn, silkworms, and the ...
Sue Hubbell, 2002
4
Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy
Critically analyzes how control of the world's diminishing sources of energy and natural resources will transform the international balance of power to forecast a future of new alliances and new global threats in which finite sources of oil ...
Michael Klare, 2009
5
Shrinking Cities: International research
Shrinking Cities: Volume 1~ISBN 3-7757-1682-3 U.S. $55.00 / Paperback, 6.75 x 9 in. / 736 pgs / 389 color and 114 b&w. ~Item / February / Architecture A decade ago, the prevailing wisdom was that cities grow, sprawling ever wider.
Philipp Oswalt, 2005
6
The Art of Shrinking Heads: The New Servitude of the ...
Dufour shows that radical transformation of the subject brought about by neoliberalism contains a new kind of violence.
Dany-Robert Dufour, 2008
7
Sandy's Incredible Shrinking Footprint
While visiting the beach, Sandy is horrified by the mess left by other visitors and starts to clean up, and a local environmentalist tells her about limiting her footprint--the effect that how she lives leaves on the environment.
Femida Handy, Carole Carpenter, Carole Henderson Carpenter, 2010
8
The Shrinking City
Kid's favourite super hero comics turned into easy-to-read chapter books. New stories with original art by DC illustrators, these books are colourful, attractive and accessible.
Michael Dahl, 2010
9
A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England
This book describes a major literary culture caught in the act of becoming minor.
Jed Esty, 2009
10
Shrinking Violet
Violet, who is very shy and hates for anyone to look at her in school, finally comes out of her shell when she is cast as Lady Space in a play about the solar system and saves the production from disaster. 12,500 first printing.
‎2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHRINKING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term shrinking is used in the context of the following news items.
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Cancelled Utah race renews fears of shrinking salt flats
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which oversees the flats, doesn't believe the flats are shrinking but is still requiring the mining company to pump brine ... «Hawaii News Now, Jul 15»
2
Why America's stock market is shrinking
“We're shrinking the stock market. Unless we figure out how to create a lot more startups and a lot more IPOs, the economy is going to continue to generate jobs ... «wtvr.com, Jul 15»
3
Hilaria Baldwin Shows Off Her "Shrinking Baldwin Baby Bump" in …
One week down! Hilaria Baldwin showed off her "shrinking Baldwin baby bump" in a brand-new underwear selfie on Wednesday, June 24, just seven days after ... «Us Magazine, Jun 15»
4
Shrinking liquidity exposes markets to crunch
But everyone agrees it is shrinking, and this could dramatically push up the cost of trading, widen bid-ask spreads and make it harder for traders to close out ... «Reuters, May 15»
5
China's incredible shrinking factory
Shrinking may also be the last stop on the road to closure. "When factories are small, they can fail," says Ben Schwall, an American businessman who has been ... «Reuters, Apr 15»
6
Study: Montana's middle class shrinking
April 03, 2015 11:30 am. (3) Comments. BILLINGS (AP) — Montana's middle class is shrinking as income disparity grows between the upper and lower classes. «The Missoulian, Apr 15»
7
Incredible shrinking cheese: We're getting less and less for our …
An investigation by consumer watchdog Which? revealed everyday items like Aunt Bessie's Homestyle Chips have dropped from 750g to 700g - a shrink factor ... «mirror.co.uk, Mar 15»
8
As Office Space Shrinks, So Does Privacy for Workers
The shrinking is happening beyond New York. The average amount of space per office worker in North America dropped to 176 square feet in 2012, from 225 in ... «New York Times, Feb 15»
9
Paleo for a Shrinking Planet?
The recent attention to dietary cholesterol, and by extension eggs, has stirred up the customary responses in a world of dietary divisiveness, if not outright dogma ... «Huffington Post, Feb 15»
10
Small size, big business: Why companies are shrinking product sizes
Marketing experts say shrinking sizes can be a savvy business practice for combating volatile costs and boosting profits, without jacking up prices for consumers. «Toronto Star, Feb 15»

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