Chewing vs Mastication - What's the difference?
chewing | mastication |
(drugs) The consumption of (the juice from) the khat plant.
(physiology) The process of chewing.
*1918 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V
*:"It is more blasphemous than that thing which is swiping our meat," I replied, for whatever the thing was, it had leaped upon our deer and was devouring it in great mouthfuls which it swallowed without mastication . The creature appeared to be a great lizard at least ten feet high, with a huge, powerful tail as long as its torso, mighty hind legs and short forelegs.
The process of crushing as though chewed.
As nouns the difference between chewing and mastication
is that chewing is the consumption of (the juice from) the khat plant while mastication is the process of chewing.As a verb chewing
is present participle of lang=en.chewing
English
Verb
(head)- Stop chewing on your shirt and get back to work.
