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Narrowing vs Pinching - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between narrowing and pinching

is that narrowing is present participle of lang=en while pinching is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between narrowing and pinching

is that narrowing is the part of a stocking that is narrowed while pinching is the act of one who or that which pinches.

As an adjective pinching is

that pinches, or causes such a sensation.

narrowing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The part of a stocking that is narrowed.
  • * 1858 , Margaret Maria Gordon, Household economy (page 60)
    • It may be observed, as a general rule, that the length of a stocking, before the narrowings , should be, at the least'', equal to ''twice the width of the top...

    pinching

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That pinches, or causes such a sensation
  • * 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
    • 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)
  • The act of one who or that which pinches.
  • * 2012 , Paul Theroux, The Lower River
    • Simon ate an orange, removing the peel in fastidious pinchings , such delicacy in a dugout on a river flowing through the bush.