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Dividing vs Shearing - What's the difference?

dividing | shearing |

As adjectives the difference between dividing and shearing

is that dividing is serving to divide or separate while shearing is tending to cut or tear.

As verbs the difference between dividing and shearing

is that dividing is while shearing is .

As nouns the difference between dividing and shearing

is that dividing is an act of division while shearing is the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.

dividing

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Serving to divide or separate.
    • We installed a dividing wall in order to create two rooms out of one.

    Verb

    (head)
    • Dividing seven dollars among three people is difficult!

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of division.
  • * 1840 , Albert Barnes, Notes: Critical, Explanatory, and Practical on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah
    • Hence the noun also means dividing'', or portion as that which is ''divided — whether an inheritance, or whether the dividings of spoil after battle.

    shearing

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Tending to cut or tear.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

    * *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
  • The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine.
    • the whole shearing''' of a flock; the '''shearings from cloth
  • .
    • (Youatt)
  • (Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.
  • The act or operation of dividing with shears.
    • the shearing of metal plates
  • The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
  • (mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
    • (Webster 1913)