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Adjusting vs Repairing - What's the difference?

adjusting | repairing |

As verbs the difference between adjusting and repairing

is that adjusting is while repairing is .

As nouns the difference between adjusting and repairing

is that adjusting is adjustment while repairing is the act by which something is repaired; a mending.

adjusting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • adjustment
  • * 1919 , The Cornell Countryman (volumes 17-18, page 264)
    • The big economic shiftings and adjustings pinch us now and then; and we shall save energy if we adapt ourselves forthwith, without reviling the rest of the family.

    repairing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is repaired; a mending.
  • * 1800 , James Jones Morgan, Epistolary Correspondence (page 14)
    • he would not consent to raise any part of the money advanced on the gates, notwithstanding the necessity of the repairings , and the conveniences which would ensue to the school from it.