Onset vs Timing - What's the difference?

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between onset and timing

is that onset is (obsolete) to set about; to begin while timing is (obsolete) an occurrence or event.

As nouns the difference between onset and timing

is that onset is a rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army while timing is (obsolete) an occurrence or event.

As verbs the difference between onset and timing

is that onset is (obsolete) to assault; to set upon while timing is .

onset

English

Noun

(en noun)

A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army.

* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare),

The onset and retire / Of both your armies.

* (rfdate) (William Wordsworth),

Who on that day the word of onset gave.

(medicine) The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent.

(phonology) The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus.

(acoustics) The beginning of a musical note or other sound, in which the amplitude rises from zero to an initial peak.

(obsolete) A setting about; a beginning.

* (rfdate) (Francis Bacon),

There is surely no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

(obsolete) Anything set on, or added, as an ornament or as a useful appendage.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=28, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= High and wet , passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.}}

(Shakespeare)

(Johnson)

Verb

(obsolete) To assault; to set upon.

(obsolete) To set about; to begin.

Anagrams

* English irregular verbs

timing

English

Noun

(obsolete) An occurrence or event.

(uncountable) The regulation of the pace of e.g. an athletic race, the speed of an engine, the delivery of a joke, or the occurrence of a series of events.

(uncountable) The time when something happens.

(uncountable) The synchronization of the firing of the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine.

(countable) An instance of recording the time of something.

Derived terms

* active timing * attack timing * back-timing * basic ignition timing * basic timing * color timing * comic timing * computer-controlled timing * continuous variable valve timing * dynamic ignition timing * ignition timing * market timing * sequential valve timing * signal timing * stress timing * syllable timing * targa timing * target timing * valve timing * variable cam timing * variable valve timing

Verb

(head)

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