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Baying vs Purchasing - What's the difference?

baying | purchasing |

As verbs the difference between baying and purchasing

is that baying is while purchasing is .

As nouns the difference between baying and purchasing

is that baying is action of the verb to bay ; howling while purchasing is the act of making a purchase.

baying

English

Verb

(head)
    • The mob approached the castle, baying for royal blood.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Action of the verb to bay ; howling.
    • She quickly grew weary of the beast's constant baying .
  • An instance of baying; a howl.
  • * 1877 , , book XXI
    • Soon as he hears bayings , and is not alarm'd nor affrighted...
  • * 1880 , , chapter 24
  • *:...the distressed bayings of his dogs, ...
  • * 1885 , ed. by , Volume XXXVI
    • And the thrill which their ill-omened bayings send through people at large is a measure of the state of tension in which the general mind is held.
  • * 1907 , , translated by Frank Justus Miller, Hercules Furens Act III
    • Who, tossing back and forth his triple heads,/ With mighty bayings watches o'er the realm.

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    purchasing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making a purchase.
  • * 1936 , James Arthur Fulton, Our economic nationalism: its purpose and importance (page 84)
    • As our exports and imports are now nearly in balance, it is assumed that such bargaining, if agreed to, would induce the debtor nations to greatly increase their purchasings from us