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Backing vs Furthering - What's the difference?

backing | furthering |

As nouns the difference between backing and furthering

is that backing is support, especially financial while furthering is the act by which something is furthered; furtherance.

As verbs the difference between backing and furthering

is that backing is while furthering 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)

    • furthering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is furthered; furtherance.
  • * (George Eliot)
    • the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swims and makes his point or else is carried headlong.