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Draining vs Graining - What's the difference?

draining | graining |

As verbs the difference between draining and graining

is that draining is present participle of lang=en while graining is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between draining and graining

is that draining is the practice of exploring drains, tunnels, or sewers while graining is the practice of imitating woodgrain on a surface.

As an adjective draining

is that drains.

draining

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That drains

    • Noun

    (-)
  • the practice of exploring drains, tunnels, or sewers

    • graining

    English

    (wikipedia graining)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • The practice of imitating woodgrain on a surface.
  • Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins.
    • (John Locke)
  • A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised.
  • (soap manufacture) The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt.
  • A small European freshwater fish (Leuciscus vulgaris ); the dobule or dace.