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I was actually born in New York. We lived there until I was three so I grew up watching Sesame Street and hearing the accent. You are a sponge at that age, soaking everything up.
Saoirse Ronan

Meaning of "soaking" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SOAKING

soaking  [ˈsəʊkɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SOAKING

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

WHAT DOES SOAKING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Soaking

Soaking may refer to: ▪ Steeping ▪ Bathing ▪ A preparatory operation for tanning in the production of leather ▪ Soaking music, a sub-genre of Christian music ▪ Neil Lakow activity...

Definition of soaking in the English dictionary

The definition of soaking in the dictionary is thoroughly wet or saturated.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SOAKING


anti-smoking
ˈæntɪˈsməʊkɪŋ
antismoking
ˌæntɪˈsməʊkɪŋ
booking
ˈbʊkɪŋ
broking
ˈbrəʊkɪŋ
choking
ˈtʃəʊkɪŋ
cooking
ˈkʊkɪŋ
forward-looking
ˌfɔːwədˈlʊkɪŋ
joking
ˈdʒəʊkɪŋ
mallemaroking
ˌmælɪməˈrəʊkɪŋ
noncoking
nɒnˈkəʊkɪŋ
nonsmoking
ˈnɒnˈsməʊkɪŋ
overbooking
ˌəʊvəˈbʊkɪŋ
pawnbroking
ˈpɔːnˌbrəʊkɪŋ
provoking
prəˈvəʊkɪŋ
smoking
ˈsməʊkɪŋ
stockbroking
ˈstɒkbrəʊkɪŋ
thought-provoking
ˈθɔːtprəvəʊkɪŋ
Woking
ˈwəʊkɪŋ
yoking
ˈjəʊkɪŋ
young-looking
ˈjʌŋˌlʊkɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SOAKING

soak
soak test
soakage
soakaway
soaked
soaker
soakingly
Soane
soap
soap boiler
soap boiling
soap bubble
soap opera
soap powder
soapbark
soapberries
soapberry
soapbox
soapbox derby
soapbox orator

WORDS THAT END LIKE SOAKING

baking
banking
braking
breaking
breathtaking
decision-making
English-speaking
freaking
heartbreaking
homemaking
in a manner of speaking
in the making
making
matchmaking
public speaking
record-breaking
sneaking
speaking
taking
undertaking
waking

Synonyms and antonyms of soaking in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SOAKING»

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

Translation of «soaking» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SOAKING

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

Translator English - Chinese

湿透的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

empapado
570 millions of speakers

English

soaking
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भिगोने
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تمرغ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

замачивания
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

encharcado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভেজানোর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

trempé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Merendam
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

patschnass
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ずぶぬれの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

흠뻑 젖은
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Soaking
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngâm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஊறவைத்தல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जोरदार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ıslatma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fradicio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

moczenie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

замочування
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

înmuiere
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μούλιασμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

deurdringende
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

blötläggning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

soaking
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of soaking

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SOAKING»

The term «soaking» is very widely used and occupies the 19.812 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SOAKING» OVER TIME

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

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10 QUOTES WITH «SOAKING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word soaking.
1
Marcelene Cox
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
2
Crescent Dragonwagon
First of all, you want to do the soaking with almost all of the larger beans because that will take care of the gas, and second of all... they want to be seasoned and flavored.
3
Craig Fairbrass
I don't know if you're familiar with Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. You step outside the hotel, and you're soaking wet within 10 minutes.
4
Norman Granz
The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.
5
Shenae Grimes
I've weighed 100 lbs. soaking wet since puberty.
6
Ken Hill
Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.
7
Carl Honore
Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
8
Paul Pierce
Just soaking up the history of the Boston Celtics has been the best thing that's happened to me as a player.
9
Pee Wee Reese
I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet.
10
Saoirse Ronan
I was actually born in New York. We lived there until I was three so I grew up watching Sesame Street and hearing the accent. You are a sponge at that age, soaking everything up.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOAKING»

Discover the use of soaking in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to soaking and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
SpongeBob SquarePants and Philosophy: Soaking Up Secrets ...
The essays can be shared by young and old alike, kindling new interest in philosophy and life’s big questions.
Joseph J. Foy, 2013
2
Development of rapid methods of soaking and cooking dry beans
There was no appreciable difference in the pH of liquid from the cooked beans, whether the 1-hour hot soak or the 18-hour cold soak was used, or whether the soaking liquid was discarded or retained for cooking. THIAMINE AND ASH ...
Elsie Halstrom Dawson, 1952
3
Soaking 101
All. the womb, as well as from the moment of birth when we let out the first cry, we experience sound. Even alone in a remote area, it is not possible to remove all sound. The sound of our own breathing can be distracting. It may be that absolute  ...
Faith D. Blatchford, 2010
4
RNA Interference: Methods for Plants and Animals
Simply soaking worms in a concentrated solution of in vitro-transcribed dsRNA is sufficient to induce RNAi. The dsRNA is most probably ingested through the pharynx, therefore some soaking protocols suggest the addition of serotonin to ...
Dr. Tim Doran, Chris Helliwell, 2009
5
Cellulosic Ethanol Production Via Aqueous Ammonia Soaking ...
Sensitivity results showed that feedstock cost have the largest impact on ethanol selling price, whereas soaking time was the most important parameter affecting the total equipment cost. Ethanol yields were also significant economic drivers of  ...
Asli Isci, 2008
6
The Raw Transformation: Energizing Your Life with Living Foods
As a general rule, I will not eat a seed, nut. or grain without first soaking and/or sprouting it. When we soak nuts and seeds we are basically starting the germination process. These nuts and seeds have been sitting dormant, waiting tor the right ...
Wendy Rudell, 2006
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RNA Interference Technology: From Basic Science to Drug ...
While soaking (i.e., without food), the development of LI larvae is arrested but the RNAi response continues, making it possible to suppress gene function from the onset of post-embryonic development. Feeding method can also be used for ...
Krishnarao Appasani, 2005
8
Leather Processing & Tanning Technology Handbook
SOAKING In the case of green hides soaking consists in washing the hides in one or two changes of water for about 15 minutes each time to remove the adhering blood, dung and dirt. Wet-salted hides are to be soaked in water for a few hours.
Niir Board Of Consultants & Engineers, 2009
9
Chickpea Breeding and Management
Soaking Soaking is often performed before, or in conjunction with, other processing steps such as sprouting, fermenting, cooking and canning. Soaking allows the seeds to imbibe water into their cells, which swell as they hydrate. Leaching of ...
Shyam S. Yadav, W. Chen, 2007
10
Irrigation management and crop diversification (Sri Lanka)
Second, the actual requirements of the farmers for land soaking and the land tillage as observed in the previous seasons appear to have been underestimated by models. Third, time periods allocated for land soaking and land tillage and for  ...
Iimi

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOAKING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term soaking is used in the context of the following news items.
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Police nail 3 suspected car burglars, including 1 soaking wet perp
Not long after, police got a call from a local cab company saying there was a suspicious, soaking wet man at their office looking for a ride to Fairfield. Police ... «Fairfield Daily Republic, Jul 15»
2
Soaking set to continue
GOOD follow-up rain is falling across the country in the wake of last week's widespread soaking, and there's more in the pipeline. The vast majority of NSW ... «Queensland Country Life, Jun 15»
3
Another super-soaking rain probable for Michigan this week
Another super-soaking rain is heading toward Michigan. This may be the first of two big rains this week. A tropical storm is trying to form in the Gulf of Mexico ... «MLive.com, Jun 15»
4
Tuesday's soaking rain helps crops and narrows rainfall deficit
The soaking rain Tuesday was just what the Midstate needed to keep abnormally dry conditions from developing into a possible drought watch, according to Eric ... «The Sentinel, Jun 15»
5
Lake Eyre provides tourism spectacular after soaking rains in the …
Lake Eyre in South Australia's north has been transformed into a photographer's paradise following five days of soaking rains. Marree Hotel publican Phil Turner ... «ABC Online, Jun 15»
6
Soaking rains saving cattle, farms in Tooele County
GRANTSVILLE — After one of the driest winters on record, Tooele County farmers and ranchers desperately hoped for a wet spring. The recent soaking rains ... «KSL.com, May 15»
7
Maine on flood watch as storm brings soaking rain, wind
GRAY, Maine — Soaking rain and gusty winds rolled through the state Tuesday, with up to 4 inches of rain falling in some areas. According to the National ... «Bangor Daily News, Apr 15»
8
White Water Canyon soaking fans for 30 years
MASON, Ohio (WDTN) – The White Water Canyon at Kings Island is entering its 30th year of soaking park visitors. One of the park's most popular rides opened ... «WDTN, Apr 15»
9
Katie Price gets “cheeky” as she flashes her booty in tiny blue bikini …
With her soaking wet hair tied back and minimal make-up, she's clearly enjoying a bit of time out of windy London. She wrote: "My gorgeous Jett looking at me ... «mirror.co.uk, Apr 15»
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Soaking in Sake: Japan's Answer to the Red Wine Bath
But we've since moved on to another kind of alcohol-infused experience: the sake soak. The beverage made from fermented rice is known to brighten, ... «Style.com, Mar 15»

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