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Ending vs Mending - What's the difference?

ending | mending |

As verbs the difference between ending and mending

is that ending is present participle of lang=en while mending is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between ending and mending

is that ending is a termination or conclusion while mending is the act by which something is mended or repaired.

ending

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A termination or conclusion.
  • The last part of something.
  • (grammar) The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -ing in "ending").

    • Synonyms

    * (termination or conclusion ): conclusion, end, termination * (last part of something ): end, finale * (grammar ):

    Phrases

    * bad ending * good ending

    Anagrams

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    mending

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is mended or repaired.
  • * 1844 , Edmund Leahy, A Practical Treatise on Making and Repairing Roads (page 133)
    • This road though frequently repaired had been nevertheless but little the better for the frequent mendings