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Equatorial vs Smarting - What's the difference?

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Equatorial is a related term of smarting.


As adjectives the difference between equatorial and smarting

is that equatorial is equatorial while smarting is painful, sore.

As a verb smarting is

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As a noun smarting is

a sensation that smarts or stings.

equatorial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • of, near, or relating to the equator
    • That plant is best suited to equatorial climates.

    Derived terms

    * Equatorial Guinea

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (astronomy) A kind of telescope mounted so as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel to the axis of the Earth, and each carrying a graduated circle, one for measuring declination, and the other right ascension, or the hour angle, so that the telescope may be directed, even in the daytime, to any star or other object whose right ascension and declination are known.

    • smarting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Painful, sore.
    • My arm is still smarting from where the ball hit it.
  • (figuratively) Experiencing emotional pain or embarrassment.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sensation that smarts or stings.
  • * (Thomas Halyburton)
    • Strong they are; for they trample upon our light, the penalties of laws divine and human; yea, and the smartings of our own conscience.

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