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Pocking vs Packing - What's the difference?

pocking | packing |

As verbs the difference between pocking and packing

is that pocking is while packing is .

As nouns the difference between pocking and packing

is that pocking is the presence of pock marks while packing is the action of the verb.

pocking

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The presence of pock marks.
  • * 1953 , Far Eastern Ceramic Bulletin
  • Unfortunately, the floor was already so pitted that I could hardly tell the punch marks from the normal pockings of age.

    packing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Derived terms

    * send someone packing

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb.
  • # The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey.
  • # (sciences, mathematics) The spatial arrangement of objects, items or constituent parts.
  • # The gathering of birds, animals etc. into a pack.
  • # (rugby) The forming of players into a scrum.
  • As a concrete noun.
  • # Material used to fill in the space around something, especially to make a piston etc. watertight or airtight.
  • # Material used to wrap a product for sale etc.; packaging.
  • # A fee charged to cover the costs of packaging.
  • # Special material used to fill containers or vessels for certain chemically related applications.
  • ::::*Examples: Packing in a packed bed, or a column such as a distillation column or a chromatography column

    Derived terms

    * packing case