Caring vs Shearing - What's the difference?
caring | shearing |
(of a person) Kind, sensitive, empathetic.
The act of one who cares.
* 1988 , Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy (page 183)
Tending to cut or tear.
The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine.
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(Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.
The act or operation of dividing with shears.
The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
(mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
(Webster 1913)
As adjectives the difference between caring and shearing
is that caring is kind, sensitive, empathetic while shearing is tending to cut or tear.As verbs the difference between caring and shearing
is that caring is present participle of lang=en while shearing is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between caring and shearing
is that caring is the act of one who cares while shearing is the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.caring
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She's a very caring person; she always has a kind word for everyone.
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings .
Anagrams
*shearing
English
Adjective
(-)Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *Noun
(en noun)- the whole shearing''' of a flock; the '''shearings from cloth
- (Youatt)
- the shearing of metal plates
