Parking vs Packing - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between packing and parking

is that packing is present participle of lang=en while parking is present participle of lang=en.

is that packing is the action of the verb while parking is the action of the verb to park.

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Parking a car in a tight spot gave him some satisfaction. (as gerund)

His parking skills needed improvement. (as participial adjective)

They will be parking the aircraft in the desert for the next few months. (as progressive)

Each one of his parkings of securities was a separate count on the indictment. (as gerundial noun)

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The action of the verb to park .

Parking in central London can be very difficult.

Space in which to park a car or other vehicle.

It can be difficult to find parking in central London.

* Often used attributively, as an adjective.

* parking area * parking garage * parking lot * parking meter * parking space * parking ticket * parking violation

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* send someone packing

(en noun)

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

* packing case