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Burrowing vs Furrowing - What's the difference?

burrowing | furrowing |

As verbs the difference between burrowing and furrowing

is that burrowing is while furrowing is .

As nouns the difference between burrowing and furrowing

is that burrowing is the act or result of making a burrow while furrowing is a furrowed pattern.

burrowing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or result of making a burrow.
  • * 1825 , Thomas Thomson, ?Richard Phillips, ?Edward William Brayley, Annals of Philosophy
    • These perforations may be readily distinguished from those more oblique and lateral burrowings which are often found in secondary fossils

    furrowing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A furrowed pattern.
  • * (Thomas Carlyle)
    • On his bleached worn face are ploughed the furrowings of one hundred and twenty years.