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Gassing vs Glassing - What's the difference?

gassing | glassing |

As verbs the difference between gassing and glassing

is that gassing is present participle of gas while glassing is present participle of glass.

As nouns the difference between gassing and glassing

is that gassing is poisoning by noxious gas while glassing is an act of glassing (stabbing with broken glass).

gassing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Poisoning by noxious gas.
  • The liberation of hydrogen from an overcharged battery due to electrolysis of the electrolyte.
  • The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibres.
  • Any similar process of singeing.
  • (slang, dated) boasting; insincere or empty talk
    • (Webster 1913)

    glassing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * 2009 , (in The Age , 10 July 2009)
    • Woman jailed for glassing Aussie singer wins appeal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of glassing (stabbing with broken glass).
  • * 2009 , Letters'' (in ''The Observer , 25 January 2009)
    • Bridgend on a Saturday night has its temporary inflatable hospitals for the stabbings and glassings .
  • * 2009 , (in The Age , 10 July 2009)
    • A woman found guilty of a nightclub glassing which left an Australian singer's career in tatters has had her conviction overturned on appeal.