What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Backing vs Basking - What's the difference?

backing | basking |

As nouns the difference between backing and basking

is that backing is support, especially financial while basking is the act of one who basks.

As verbs the difference between backing and basking

is that backing is while basking is .

As an adjective backing

is (music) that which provides support for the main performer.

backing

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Support, especially financial.
    • It's a volunteer organization that works with backing from the city and a few grants.
  • A liner or other material added behind or underneath.
    • The cardboard backing gives the notebook a little extra stiffness.
  • (music) Musicians and vocalists who support the main performer

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (music) That which provides support for the main performer

    • Verb

    (head)

    • basking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * basking shark

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who basks.
  • * 1999 , Linda Simon, William James Remembered
    • With no lectures given or heard, no pups offered and ignored or contemptuously rejected by telegraph, no snatches at conversation in the midst of crowds, no baskings on the lawn at Bryn Mawr, no nothing at all, in short

    Anagrams

    *