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Chilling vs Hilling - What's the difference?

chilling | hilling |

As nouns the difference between chilling and hilling

is that chilling is the act by which something is chilled while hilling is the act or process of heaping or drawing earth around plants.

As an adjective chilling

is becoming cold.

As a verb chilling

is .

chilling

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Becoming cold.
  • * 1936 , Djuna Barnes, Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 22:
    • As they reached the street the ‘Duchess’ caught a swirling hem of lace about her chilling ankles.
  • Causing cold.
  • Causing mild fear.
    • It was a chilling story, but the children enjoyed it
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
    • Displaying a sturdy professionalism throughout that stops just short of artistry, director Gary Ross, who co-scripted with Collins and Billy Ray, does his strongest work in the early scenes, which set up the stakes with chilling efficiency.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * bone-chilling

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is chilled.
  • * 2004 , Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)
    • To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires

    hilling

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The act or process of heaping or drawing earth around plants.
    • (Webster 1913) ----