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Baring vs Wearing - What's the difference?

baring | wearing |

As verbs the difference between baring and wearing

is that baring is present participle of lang=en while wearing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between baring and wearing

is that baring is the act by which something is laid bare while wearing is the mechanical process of eroding or grinding.

As an adjective wearing is

intended to be worn.

baring

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is laid bare.
  • * 2008 , Carolyn Arends, Wrestling with Angels: Adventures in Faith and Doubt (page 90)
    • These woods loom large in my history — they were the site of two clumsy first kisses, one heart-crushing breakup, and countless whispered barings of the soul — but they are even more solidly a part of my present.
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    wearing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • intended to be worn
  • * Clothes used to be called wearing apparel
  • causing tiredness
  • * '>citation
  • causing erosion

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The mechanical process of eroding or grinding.
  • The act by which something is worn.
    • formal crown-wearings
  • That which is worn; clothes; garments.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Give me my nightly wearing and adieu.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * hard-wearing (or hardwearing, hard wearing)