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Paying vs Spaying - What's the difference?

paying | spaying |

As verbs the difference between paying and spaying

is that paying is present participle of lang=en while spaying is present participle of spay.

As nouns the difference between paying and spaying

is that paying is payment while spaying is the act or operation of neutering an animal; normally used in reference to performing the operation on a female.

paying

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • payment
  • * Philip H. Wicksteed, The Commonsense of Political Economy
    • It brings his payings into close and convenient correspondence with his usings of commodities, and different branches of his expenditure thus become easily comparable.

    spaying

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or operation of neutering an animal; normally used in reference to performing the operation on a female.
    • The veterinary surgeon carries out spayings almost every day.