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Darning vs Sewing - What's the difference?

darning | sewing |

As verbs the difference between darning and sewing

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

As nouns the difference between darning and sewing

is that darning is a repair made by darning while sewing is the action of the verb to sew.

darning

English

(wikipedia 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?

    sewing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • The action of the verb to sew .
  • Something that is being or has been sewn.
    • She put down her sewing and went to answer the door.
    The sewing has come undone on this seam.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
    • Mrs. Flanders had left her sewing on the table. There were her large reels of white cotton and her steel spectacles; her needle-case; her brown wool wound round an old postcard.

    Derived terms

    * sewing machine

    Anagrams

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