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Maintenance vs Curing - What's the difference?

maintenance | curing |

As nouns the difference between maintenance and curing

is that maintenance is actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service while curing is the act by which something is cured.

As a verb curing is

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maintenance

English

(wikipedia maintenance)

Alternative forms

* maintenaunce

Noun

(en noun)
  • Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service
  • (legal) A tort committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit.
  • (legal) (UK English) Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
  • Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.

    • Related terms

    * maintain

    See also

    * high-maintenance * low-maintenance * maintenance-free * maintenance window

    External links

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    curing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is cured.
  • * 1988 , Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy (page 183)
    • As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings.