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Placing vs Arranging - What's the difference?

placing | arranging |

As verbs the difference between placing and arranging

is that placing is while arranging is .

As nouns the difference between placing and arranging

is that placing is the action of the verb to place while arranging is arrangement.

placing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to place
  • The condition of being placed
  • The position of a competitor at the end of a race

    • arranging

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • arrangement
  • * (Francis Hopkinson Smith), Peter: A Novel of Which He Is Not the Hero
    • Strict orders had been given by Mrs. Breen the night before that certain dustings and arrangings of furniture should take place, the spacious stairs swept, and the hectic hired palms in their great china pots watered.