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Darning vs Dawning - What's the difference?

darning | dawning |

As verbs the difference between darning and dawning

is that darning is present participle of lang=en while dawning is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between darning and dawning

is that darning is a repair made by darning while dawning is dawn.

darning

Verb

(head)
  • Derived terms

    * darning egg * darning mushroom * darning needle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A repair made by darning.
  • * 1840 , Frances Milton Trollope, The Widow Barnaby (page 5)
  • Who has told of the turnings, the dyings, the ironings, the darnings , that have gone to make misses of ten pounds a-year pin-money look as smart as the squanderer of five hundred?

    dawning

    English

    Alternative forms

    * daunyng

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Dawn.
  • *:
  • *:Anone after cam the knyght with the two swerdes and balan his broder / and brought with hem kynge Ryons of Northwalys and there delyuerd hym to the porters and charged hem with hym / & soo they two retorned ageyne in the daunyng of the day
  • * 1874 , , (The City of Dreadful Night)
  • never there / Can come the lucid morning's fragrant breath / After the dewy dawning' s cold grey air
  • The first beginnings of something.
  • *1995 , (Pinky and the Brain) , theme:
  • *:Before each night is done, / Their plan will be unfurled, / By the dawning of the sun, / They'll take over the world.
  • Verb

    (head)