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Cupping vs Feathering - What's the difference?

cupping | feathering |

As nouns the difference between cupping and feathering

is that cupping is the operation of drawing blood to or from the surface of the person by forming a partial vacuum over the spot while feathering is a feathered texture.

As verbs the difference between cupping and feathering

is that cupping is present participle of lang=en while feathering is present participle of lang=en.

cupping

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (medicine, archaic) The operation of drawing blood to or from the surface of the person by forming a partial vacuum over the spot.
  • (medicine, archaic) A similar operation for drawing pus from an abscess.
  • (medicine) Fire cupping, a traditional therapeutic treatment called in which heated cupping glasses are applied to the skin, supposedly to draw blood towards the surface.
  • The taking of a small amount of a beverage such as tea or coffee into the mouth in order to taste it; a session where this is done.

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    * (Fire cupping)

    Verb

    (head)

    • feathering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A feathered texture.
  • * 1834 , Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants
    • The whole flower is very small; the tube is faintly marked with lilac lines; the petals are concave, the three outer white, marked with three lines, the middle one narrow, without featherings , the outer ones broader, and neatly feathered