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Meaning of "tearing" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TEARING

tearing  [ˈtɛərɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TEARING

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

WHAT DOES TEARING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tearing

Tearing is the act of breaking apart a material by force, without the aid of a cutting tool. A tear in a piece of paper, fabric, or some other similar object may be the result of the intentional effort with one's bare hands, or be accidental. Unlike a cut, which is generally on a straight or patterned line controlled by a tool such as scissors, a tear is generally uneven and, for the most part, unplanned. An exception is a tear along a perforated line, as found on a roll of toilet paper or paper towels, which has been previously partially cut, so the effort of tearing will probably produce a straight line. Materials vary in their susceptibility to tearing. Some materials may be quite resistant to tearing when they are in their full form, but when a small cut or tear is made, the material becomes compromised, and the effort needed to continue tearing along that line becomes less. Materials can be characterized by standard methods to measure their 'tear strength'. There are several applicable standards which vary around the world.

Definition of tearing in the English dictionary

The definition of tearing in the dictionary is violent or furious.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TEARING


airing
ˈɛərɪŋ
Baring
ˈbɛərɪŋ
bearing
ˈbɛərɪŋ
caring
ˈkɛərɪŋ
daring
ˈdɛərɪŋ
despairing
dɪˈspɛərɪŋ
fairing
ˈfɛərɪŋ
glaring
ˈɡlɛərɪŋ
interest-bearing
ˈɪntrəstˌbɛərɪŋ
long-wearing
ˌlɒŋˈwɛərɪŋ
overbearing
ˌəʊvəˈbɛərɪŋ
pairing
ˈpɛərɪŋ
paring
ˈpɛərɪŋ
raring
ˈrɛərɪŋ
seafaring
ˈsiːˌfɛərɪŋ
sparing
ˈspɛərɪŋ
staring
ˈstɛərɪŋ
unsparing
ʌnˈspɛərɪŋ
wayfaring
ˈweɪˌfɛərɪŋ
wearing
ˈwɛərɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TEARING

tear-stained
tearable
tearaway
teardown
teardrop
tearer
tearful
tearfully
tearfulness
tearier
teariest
tearily
teariness
tearless
tearlessly
tearoom
tears
tearstain
tearstrip
teary

WORDS THAT END LIKE TEARING

ball bearing
bring
child-bearing
child rearing
clearing
disciplinary hearing
endearing
file sharing
file-sharing
gearing
God-fearing
hearing
load-bearing
photo-sharing
profit-sharing
rip-roaring
roaring
rolling bearing
searing
shearing
soaring

Synonyms and antonyms of tearing in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tearing» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TEARING

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

Translator English - Chinese

撕裂
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

lagrimeo
570 millions of speakers

English

tearing
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

फाड़
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تمزيق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

разрывая
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

rasgando
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিচ্ছিন্নকরণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

déchirure
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Merobek
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

reißend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

引き裂く
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

찢어
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tearing
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

rách
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கிழித்தார்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जोराचा फटका
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kocaman
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lacerazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

łzawienie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

розриваючи
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rupere
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δακρύρροια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skeur
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

avrivning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rive
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tearing

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TEARING»

The term «tearing» is very widely used and occupies the 19.235 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TEARING» OVER TIME

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

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10 QUOTES WITH «TEARING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word tearing.
1
Jack Henry Abbott
That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.
2
Samuel Alexander
Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
3
Tracy Anderson
Oftentimes, heavy weights can tear the muscle fiber causing it to bulk, but using a lighter weight for a longer duration and allowing your body to move in many different ways to target all of the muscles will lengthen them without tearing.
4
Jason Beghe
Scientology delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. It creates a brainwashed, robotic version of you. It's a 'Matrix' of you, so you're communicating with people all the time using Scientology.
5
William J. H. Boetcker
You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
6
David R. Brower
We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart.
7
Pam Brown
If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.
8
Carter Burwell
In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.
9
Jane Welsh Carlyle
I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, 'Mew!' than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do, tearing each other's characters to pieces, and wearing out their lives in vanity and vexation of spirit.
10
Sri Chinmoy
Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mind's tearing tension.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TEARING»

Discover the use of tearing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tearing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in ...
A compelling critique of the American educational system explains how the growing inequities between rich and poor is exacerbated by offering the advantaged ample opportunites while shutting out the poor, arguing that we need to take a hard ...
Peter Sacks, 2007
2
Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Urban Anarchy
Along the way the book investigates a remarkable range on contemporary public controversies involving these underground groups, documenting the ways in which their on-the-street anarchist polities and cultural self-invention shape ...
Jeff Ferrell, 2002
3
Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern ...
Tearing Apart the Land by Duncan McCargo, one of the world's leading scholars of contemporary Thai politics, is the first fieldwork-based book about this conflict.
Duncan McCargo, 2008
4
Tearing Down the Walls: How Sandy Weill Fought His Way to ...
Traces the life and career of the financial mogul from his early days as a disadvantaged Brooklyn son of Jewish immigrants to his entrepreneurial triumphs with Solomon Smith Barney and Citigroup. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
Monica Langley, 2004
5
Mobile Communication: Bringing Us Together and Tearing Us Apart
This volume presents the first detailed study of the use of these devices. This groundbreaking work will be a fascinating read for both multimedia device professionals and everyday users alike.
Richard Seyler Ling, Scott W. Campbell, 2011
6
Finite and Boundary Element Tearing and Interconnecting ...
The purpose of this book is to give a detailed and self-contained presentation of these methods, including the corresponding algorithms as well as a rigorous convergence theory.
Clemens Pechstein, 2012
7
Tearing the Silence: On Being German in America
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Ursula Hegi, 2011
8
Tearing Down The Wall of Sound: The Rise And Fall of Phil ...
The day after it was published an actress named Lana Clarkson was shot dead in Spector's LA castle. This is Brown's odyssey into the strange life and times of Phil Spector.
Mick Brown, 2012
9
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded American is ...
How this came to be, and its dire implications for our country, is the subject of this ground-breaking work. In The Big Sort, Bishop has taken his analysis to a new level.
Bill Bishop, 2009
10
Tearing Your Eyes Out: A Collection of Poetrical Abominations
--Poem on the book's back cover --In this book you preview read Are poems that cause mind impede, Verse about sheep not of wool Other silly things it full, Rhyme of bird, a dog and yak One about a creature quack, Ode to seeing movie shows ...
‎2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TEARING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tearing is used in the context of the following news items.
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AFC Bournemouth's Junior Stanislas: I was tearing my hair out last …
I was tearing my hair out. It is the worst thing in the world when you know you're not injured, you're fit enough to play and you're just not being selected. «Bournemouth Echo, Jul 15»
2
Retailers Call Senate Passage of TPA 'Landmark Step Toward …
“This is a landmark step toward tearing down trade barriers that stand in the way of a truly free and open global economy. TPA will help complete trade ... «National Retail Federation, Jun 15»
3
Juárez is tearing down a huge reminder of its bloody past
Today that number is much lower, and city officials are hoping that tearing down the three-ton sign will help remove some of the city's bad reputation. The sign is ... «PRI, Jun 15»
4
100 Tory politicians are threatening to tear this government apart
What seemed like a good way to stop on-the-fence voters turning to UKIP in the elections, now risks tearing his own party in two. The Independent reports that ... «Business Insider, Jun 15»
5
Coggeshall Man's Disappearance "Tearing Family Apart"
"We are a really close family unit and his disappearance is tearing us apart. We are devastated. "We had no idea that something was wrong until one of his ... «Heart, May 15»
6
Winnie: ANC is tearing itself apart
Johannesburg - Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has appealed to the ANC to “seriously consider” amending the constitution to change the electoral system from ... «Independent Online, Apr 15»
7
Relieve congestion instead of increasing it by tearing down Gardiner …
There's no doubt congestion will increase under a plan to tear down this section of the Gardiner and replace it with an eight-lane, street-level boulevard. «Toronto Star, Apr 15»
8
Daughter's Ghana death 'tearing my heart apart'
“It's tearing my heart apart because she wasn't only my daughter, she was my friend as well,” she said. “I was able to speak to her about anything. “She was my ... «The Courier, Apr 15»
9
Engineers elucidate why skin is resistant to tearing
Skin is remarkably resistant to tearing and a team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ... «Phys.Org, Apr 15»
10
Little girl can't sing song about ducks without tearing up at the lyrics
This little girl learned a new song at school but while singing it for her mother, Jessica Carey, the story of the mother duck who has lost her ducklings starts to get ... «Irish Examiner, Apr 15»

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