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Embracing vs Increasing - What's the difference?

embracing | increasing | Related terms |

Embracing is a related term of increasing.


As verbs the difference between embracing and increasing

is that embracing is while increasing is .

As nouns the difference between embracing and increasing

is that embracing is the act of giving an embrace while increasing is (knitting) an increase.

embracing

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Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of giving an embrace.
  • * 1849 , Charles Frederick Briggs, Holden's Dollar Magazine (volumes 3-4, page 240)
    • Ay, in so doing you will but voluntarily throw yourself into her arms, and, with fond embracings , proclaim yourself a willing servant; do not, in the wild endeavor to win fame, strive to crush her power!

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    increasing

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  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (knitting) An increase.
  • * 1864 , The Ladies' Companion and Monthly Magazine (page 277)
    • Now begin the increasings for the chest by making 2 stitches in the fourth stitch; repeat this, increasing in every fourth row, but 1 stitch further each time, so as to form a slanting line, the same as a dress-pleat.