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Gaining vs Graining - What's the difference?

gaining | graining |

As verbs the difference between gaining and graining

is that gaining is while graining is .

As nouns the difference between gaining and graining

is that gaining is gain; profit while graining is the practice of imitating woodgrain on a surface.

gaining

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • gain; profit
  • * 1807 , The London Medical and Physical Journal

    • 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.