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Coding vs Codling - What's the difference?

coding | codling |

As nouns the difference between coding and codling

is that coding is the process of encoding or decoding while codling is a small, young cod.

As verbs the difference between coding and codling

is that coding is present participle of lang=en while codling is present participle of lang=en.

coding

English

Noun

  • The process of encoding or decoding.
  • The process of writing computer software code.
  • I spent all night on the coding , but the program was ready by morning.
  • An encoding.
  • (emergency medicine) A method of communicating important medical information discreetly and quickly between medical professionals and responders.
  • An alternative therapy used to treat addictions by convincing the patient (through hypnosis, placebos, etc.) that the substance will harm or kill them if they use it again.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • codling

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small, young cod
  • * 1922 , Hugh Lofting, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle'', part 4, chapter 2, ''The Fidgit's Story :
  • “Here a couple of old men in whiskers and spectacles leant over us, making strange sounds. Some codling had got caught in the net the same time as we were. These the old men threw back into the sea; but us they seemed to think very precious. …”
  • A hake (cod-related food fish), notably from the genus .
  • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • Etymology 3

    * Some dictionaries including Merriam-Webster online list (etyl) querdlyng, being equivalent to modern (-ling). * Some dictionaries including Collins online list “Unknown”.

    Alternative forms

    * codlin

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small, immature apple
  • * 1601–02 , , Twelfth Night , act 1, scene 5:
  • Malvolio: Not yet old enough for a man, nor yong enough
    for a boy: as a squash is before tis a pescod, or a Codling
    when tis almost an Apple: Tis with him in standing water,
    betweene boy and man. He is verie well-fauour'd,
    and he speakes verie shrewishly: One would thinke his
    mothers milke were scarse out of him
  • * 1800 , Hannah Glasse and Maria Wilson, The Complete Confectioner'', ''Creams, &c. :
  • To make Codling' Cream.
    Take twenty fair '
    codlings
    , core them, beat them in a mortar with a pint of cream, strain it into a dish, put into it some crumbs of brown bread, with a little-sack, and dish it up.
  • Any of various greenish, elongated English apple varieties, used for cooking
  • See also codling moth, which plant their lavae in apples.