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Gilding vs Wilding - What's the difference?

gilding | wilding |

As verbs the difference between gilding and wilding

is that gilding is present participle of lang=en while wilding is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between gilding and wilding

is that gilding is the art of applying gold leaf to a surface while wilding is a wild apple or apple-tree.

As an adjective wilding is

not tame or cultivated; wild.

gilding

English

(wikipedia gilding)

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • (uncountable) The art of applying gold leaf to a surface
  • (uncountable) Gold leaf
  • (countable) A coating of gold, etc.

    • Anagrams

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    wilding

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A wild apple or apple-tree.
  • Any plant that grows wild; a wildflower, wild apple, etc.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vii:
    • Oft from the forrest wildings he did bring, / Whose sides empurpled were with smiling red [...].
  • * Dryden
    • Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found.
  • * Landor
    • The fruit of the tree is small, of little juice, and bad quality. I presume it to be a wilding .

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (poetic) Not tame or cultivated; wild.
    • Wilding flowers. — Tennyson.
    The wilding bee hums merrily by. — Bryant.

    Etymology 2

    From

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually, in the plural, philately) Any British stamp with the image of Queen Elizabeth II, based on a portrait by Dorothy Wilding.