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Whipping vs Seizing - What's the difference?

whipping | seizing |

As nouns the difference between whipping and seizing

is that whipping is the punishment of being whipped while seizing is a type of lashing or binding by a small cord.

As verbs the difference between whipping and seizing

is that whipping is present participle of lang=en while seizing is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective seizing is

that seizes the attention; impressive.

whipping

English

Noun

  • (countable) The punishment of being whipped.
  • (countable) A heavy defeat; a thrashing.
  • (uncountable) A cooking technique in which air is incorporated into cream etc.
  • (countable) A cord or thread used to lash or bind something.
  • (nautical, whipping) The lashing of the end of a rope. (FM 55-501).

    • Verb

    (head)

    • seizing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • a type of lashing or binding by a small cord
  • *1851 ,
  • *:Cut your seizings and draw the poles, ye harpooneers!”
  • *:Silently obeying the order, the three harpooneers now stood with the detached iron part of their harpoons, some three feet long, held, barbs up, before him.
  • # Such lashing used to temporarily immobilize the ends of a rope to prevent a knot from slipping or collapsing.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That seizes the attention; impressive.
  • *1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 45:
  • *:It is a world of seizing visual beauty, of shimmering whites and yellows that shift to glowing apricot, pink and violet with the sinking of the saturant sun.