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PRONUNCIATION OF UPROOTINGS

uprootings  [ʌpˈruːtɪŋz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UPROOTINGS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Uprootings 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 UPROOTINGS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of uprootings in the English dictionary

The definition of uprootings in the dictionary is acts of uprooting.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UPROOTINGS


beastings
ˈbiːstɪŋz
beestings
ˈbiːstɪŋz
biestings
ˈbiːstɪŋz
boltings
ˈbɒltɪŋz
cavortings
kəˈvɔːtɪŋz
excerptings
ɛkˈsɜːptɪŋz
fittings
ˈfɪtɪŋz
footings
ˈfʊtɪŋz
Hastings
ˈheɪstɪŋz
hustings
ˈhʌstɪŋz
ratings
ˈreɪtɪŋz
retrofittings
ˌretrəʊˈfɪtɪŋz
siftings
ˈsɪftɪŋz
skirtings
ˈskɜːtɪŋz
thrustings
ˈθrʌstɪŋz
underwritings
ˈʌndəˌraɪtɪŋz
Writings
ˈraɪtɪŋz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UPROOTINGS

uprisal
uprise
uprisen
upriser
uprising
upriver
uproar
uproarious
uproariously
uproariousness
uproll
uproot
uprootal
uprooted
uprootedness
uprooter
uprose
uprouse
uprun
uprush

WORDS THAT END LIKE UPROOTINGS

bathroom fittings
bearings
crochetings
earnings
evenings
feelings
findings
furnishings
gas fittings
leggings
proceedings
rankings
savings
Springs
strings
surroundings
the Writings
things
wings
with all the trimmings

Synonyms and antonyms of uprootings in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «uprootings» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UPROOTINGS

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

Translator English - Chinese

uprootings
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

desarraigos
570 millions of speakers

English

uprootings
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

uprootings
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

uprootings
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

uprootings
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

uprootings
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

uprootings
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

déracinements
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pemusnahan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Entwurzelung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

uprootings
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

uprootings
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Uprootings
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

uprootings
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

uprootings
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उद्रेक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

uprootings
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sradicamenti
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

uprootings
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

uprootings
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

uprootings
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

uprootings
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

uitkappings
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

uprootings
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

uprootings
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of uprootings

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UPROOTINGS»

The term «uprootings» is barely ever used and occupies the 200.572 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UPROOTINGS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «uprootings» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «uprootings» 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 uprootings

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UPROOTINGS»

Discover the use of uprootings in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to uprootings and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration
What is the relationship between leaving home and the imagining of home itself? And having left home, what might it mean to return? How can we re-think what it means to be grounded, or to stay put? Who moves and who stays?
Sara Ahmed, 2003
2
Mathematical Morphology and Its Applications to Image and ...
Uprootings. and. MSF. Hierarchies. In this section, we formalize a simple transformation, called uprooting, that allows a forest X rooted in a graph M to be incrementally transformed into a forest Y rooted in a graph M obtained by removing some ...
Pierre Soille, Martino Pesaresi, Georgios Ouzounis, 2011
3
Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the ...
18 Henry Hart implicitly affirms that Heaney's work is susceptible to such charges when he observes that "Heaney uses etymology to chart historical uprootings of a specifically Irish culture."19 From such a perspective, Heaney's goal is to ...
Daniel Tobin, 1991
4
Pop's Story
Fatherhood,. Mourning. and. Uprootings. Lee and I returned from our honeymoon , and she immediately was employed by Little Company Hospital as an obstetrical nurse. It was great that she began working in O.B. for within a year she would ...
Paul O. Peterson, 2011
5
From the Maelstrom: A Pilgrim's Story of Dissent and ...
3. REVUCA. AND. THE. FIRST. UPROOTINGS. . . . suppositos cineri doloso. ( Under the ashes deceptively cold.) Horace, Carminum Liber II, i. If I ever felt at home in a community, it was in Revuca of my youth, from 1927 to the sudden rejection ...
Lubomir Gleiman, 2011
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Home
Ahmed, S. (2000) Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality. London: Routledge. Ahmed, S., Castañeda, C., Fortier, A.-M., and Sheller, M. ( eds) (2003a) 'Introduction: uprootings/regroundings: questions of home and migration'.
Alison Blunt, Lecturer in Geography Alison Blunt, Ma, Robyn Dowling, 2006
7
Technical Bulletin
Mi N2 77 The first year's experiments consisted entirely of uprootings made weekly in the spring, beginning April 1 and ending May 7, 1924, the stubs being exposed for periods of from 5 to 41 days. The longer periods of weathering, 33 and 41 ...
‎1934
8
Platform: Postgraduate EJournal of Theatre & Performing Arts
Uprootings/ Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration. Oxford: Berg, 2003 : 1-22. Appiah, Kwame Anthony. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers . New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006. Ankori, Gannit. '“De-Orientalism”: ...
9
Europe in Black and White: Immigration, Race and Identity in ...
London: Bloomsbury, 2005. Ahmed, S., Castañeda C., Fortier, A.-M. & Sheller, M. Introduction: Uprootings/regroundings – questions of home and migration. In S. Ahmed, C. Castañeda, A.-M. Fortier & M. Sheller, eds. Uprootings/Regroundings:  ...
Manuela Ribeiro Sanches, 2011
10
Night Flying Woman: An Ojibway Narrative
In the accounts of the lives of several generations of Ojibway people in Minnesota is much information about their history and culture.
Ignatia Broker, 1983

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UPROOTINGS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term uprootings is used in the context of the following news items.
1
South Sudan: New fighting will bring new suffering
The latest uprootings of the civilian population have occurred in the towns of Leer in Unity State and in Kodok in Upper Nile state. The ICRC fears the hostilities ... «ICRC, May 15»
2
NCAA upsets lead Vegas to its second-most profitable day ever
Between the uprootings of heavy favorites like Baylor and Iowa State and the record-setting five one-point wins, the real winner in all this was The House, a.k.a. ... «Yahoo Sports, Mar 15»
3
What they won't tell you: AL.com revisits 1991 Pulitzer Prize winning …
They germinated in the uprootings of farm families from the fields to the smokestacks after the close of the Civil War. Auburn University history professor Dr. «AL.com, Mar 15»
4
VIDEO | The real casualties of war : IDPs of Mindanao
... often without their consent, in their name, whose lives have, for generations, been a sad and vicious cycle of uprootings and uncertain homecomings until the ... «InterAksyon, Feb 15»
5
'Broadband' for 'bluebell'...'chatroom' for 'catkin': standard vocabulary …
In the ethnically Hungarian valleys of Transylvania, where despite all the turmoil and uprootings of the 20th century something of the traditional life has survived, ... «Spectator.co.uk, Feb 15»
6
Mother Mary Montano: The influential performance artist and …
... endure our tortured thoughts, endure our various and punitive diets, endure the torture of climate changes and home-uprootings, endure our lovelessness, ... «Austin Chronicle, Oct 14»
7
Lulu Kennedy: 'I've got a big sister complex'
There were occasional uprootings to Sicily or Ibiza before penniless returns. As a student she decamped to Naples, before returning to London in the Nineties. «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 14»
8
Apple crop survives polar vortex; Saginaw County grower says …
"Some trees have so many apples we've had a few uprootings this year," she laughed. As the orchard celebrates 125 years of selling fruit at the same location, ... «The Saginaw News, Sep 14»
9
Italy: Growers will pay the highest price for the Russian ban
"I have never seen so many peach tree uprootings like this year - growers were already affected by the consumption crisis and now the Russian option is also ... «FreshPlaza, Sep 14»
10
People of the Word
... perennially resisting its annihilation, of remaking homes and habitats, writing the prose and the poetry of life, through a succession of uprootings and assaults. «The Weekly Standard, Aug 14»

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