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Crying vs Trying - What's the difference?

crying | trying |

As adjectives the difference between crying and trying

is that crying is that demands action or attention while trying is difficult to endure; arduous.

As nouns the difference between crying and trying

is that crying is action of the verb cry while trying is the act by which one tries something; an attempt.

As verbs the difference between crying and trying

is that crying is present participle of lang=en while trying is present participle of lang=en.

crying

English

(wikipedia crying)

Adjective

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  • That demands action or attention.
  • There is a crying need for more manual workers in this country.
  • That deserves rebuke or censure.
  • It is a crying shame that he managed to get away with that!

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Action of the verb cry .
  • Their constant cryings kept us awake!

    Verb

    (head)
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    trying

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Difficult to endure; arduous.
  • *1891 , Conan Doyle,
  • *:"Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a little trying to do so much typewriting?"
  • Irritating, stressful or bothersome.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (philosophy) The act by which one tries something; an attempt.
  • * 2006 , Andrew Sneddon, Action and Responsibility (page 145)
  • In a variety of places, O'Shaughnessy argues that there is an internal relation between trying and the events that tryings produce. For example, he argues that tryings are not independently specifiable except as would-be causes of physical events.

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