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Batting vs Battling - What's the difference?

batting | battling |

As nouns the difference between batting and battling

is that batting is cotton, wool, silk or synthetic material used to stuff the inside of a mattress, quilt etc while battling is a growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening.

As verbs the difference between batting and battling

is that batting is present participle of lang=en while battling is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective battling is

nourishing; fattening.

batting

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

  • (sewing) cotton, wool, silk or synthetic material used to stuff the inside of a mattress, quilt etc
  • special cotton for surgery.

    • Synonyms

    * bat, batt

    Etymology 2

    .

    Noun

  • the act of someone who bats
    • the battings of her eyelashes

    Verb

    (head)

    • battling

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening.
  • That which nourishes or fattens, as food, or feed for animals, or manure for soil.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Nourishing; fattening.
  • * 1873 , Sir John Scott Keltie, The works of the British dramatists :
    • Let it be me; and trust me, Margaret, The meads environ'd with the silver streams, Whose battling pastures fatten all my flocks, Yielding forth fleeces stapled with such wool As Lemnster cannot yield more finer stuff, [...]
  • Fertile.

    • Etymology 2

    From battle.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

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