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Backing vs Subsiding - What's the difference?

backing | subsiding |

As nouns the difference between backing and subsiding

is that backing is support, especially financial while subsiding is the act by which something subsides.

As verbs the difference between backing and subsiding

is that backing is present participle of lang=en while subsiding is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective backing

is 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)

    • subsiding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something subsides.
  • * 1871 , Edward Balfour, Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial and Scientific
    • With such violent subterranean forces in operation, even at the present day, it is easy to apprehend how numerous must have been the uprisings and subsidings of the solid matter of the earth in this region during bye-gone ages.