Pinching vs Inching - What's the difference?
pinching | inching |
That pinches, or causes such a sensation
* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
The act of one who or that which pinches.
* 2012 , Paul Theroux, The Lower River
Very gradual movement.
* Francis Lynde, Empire Builders
As verbs the difference between pinching and inching
is that pinching is while inching is .As nouns the difference between pinching and inching
is that pinching is the act of one who or that which pinches while inching is very gradual movement.As an adjective pinching
is that pinches, or causes such a sensation.pinching
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It was one January morning, very early — a pinching , frosty morning — the cove all gray with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward.
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Simon ate an orange, removing the peel in fastidious pinchings , such delicacy in a dugout on a river flowing through the bush.
inching
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- From behind the trucks of the box-car a slender pole, headed with what appeared to be an empty oyster tin, and trailing a black line of fuse, was projecting itself along the ground by slow inchings , creeping across the lighted space