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Petting vs Netting - What's the difference?

petting | netting |

As verbs the difference between petting and netting

is that petting is present participle of lang=en while netting is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between petting and netting

is that petting is the act of stroking or fondling an animal while netting is something that acts as, or looks like, a net.

petting

English

Verb

(head)
    • I am petting my rabbit

    Noun

  • The act of stroking or fondling an animal.
  • The act of kissing, stroking, etc., a person in a sexual manner.
  • The act of indulging or treating as a favourite.
  • * Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives
    • 'Come, Jo, don't be thorny. After studying himself to a skeleton all the week, a fellow deserves petting , and ought to get it.'

    Derived terms

    * heavy petting

    See also

    * foreplay

    netting

    English

    Noun

  • Something that acts as, or looks like, a net.
  • :Usage (1965): Chapter 2''.] "[http://ed-thelen.org/USAADSDigest1965chapter0-1.pdf Army Air Defense Control Systems".] U. S. Army Air Defense Digest (Hinman Hall, [[:Wikipedia:Fort Bliss, Fort Bliss], Texas: U. S. Army Air Defense School): page 17. January 1965. Retrieved 2011-09-20. "The term “radar netting'''” (fig 43) describes ' the process by which track data derived from several additional or remote radars are gathered at a single center to produce an integrated set of meaningful target information ".
  • (UK, dialect, dated) urine
    • (Halliwell)

    Synonyms

    *mesh

    Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

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