Packing vs Picking - What's the difference?
packing | picking |
The action of the verb.
# The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey.
# (sciences, mathematics) The spatial arrangement of objects, items or constituent parts.
# The gathering of birds, animals etc. into a pack.
# (rugby) The forming of players into a scrum.
As a concrete noun.
# Material used to fill in the space around something, especially to make a piston etc. watertight or airtight.
# Material used to wrap a product for sale etc.; packaging.
# A fee charged to cover the costs of packaging.
# Special material used to fill containers or vessels for certain chemically related applications.
::::*Examples: Packing in a packed bed, or a column such as a distillation column or a chromatography column
A gathering to pick fruit.
(usually, pluralized) Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
* 1899 , , Via Crucis , ch. 9:
(usually, pluralized) Income or other gains, especially if obtained in a unscrupulous or objectionable manner.
* 1919 , , The Secret of the Tower , ch. 11:
As verbs the difference between packing and picking
is that packing is while picking is .As nouns the difference between packing and picking
is that packing is the action of the verb while picking is a gathering to pick fruit.packing
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(head)Derived terms
* send someone packingNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* packing casepicking
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(head)Noun
(en noun)- We went to a strawberry picking last June.
- Gilbert wandered through . . .the haunts of ravenous dogs and homeless cats that kept themselves alive on the choice pickings of the city's garbage.
- He liked the pickings which the job brought him much better than the job itself.
