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Piercing vs Piecing - What's the difference?

piercing | piecing |

As nouns the difference between piercing and piecing

is that piercing is body piercing while piecing is a patch.

As a verb piecing is

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piercing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • (uncountable) The action of the verb to pierce
  • A hole made in the body so that jewellery/jewelry can be worn through it
    • ear piercing
  • The jewelry itself

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Anything or anyone that pierces.
    • piercing eyes
    The piercing noise of the children could be heard two blocks from the elementary school.

    piecing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A patch.
  • * 1944 , Clarice L. Scott, Make-overs from Coats and Suits
    • When you're laying out the pattern, try to arrange it so piecings and repairs fall in a part of the garment where they won't show — in hems, facings, underarm in waist or sleeves.

    Verb

    (head)

    • References

    * Meaning "patch": 1949', John Dover Wilson (compiler), ' Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose , Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes