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Polluting vs Soiling - What's the difference?

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Polluting is a related term of soiling.


As verbs the difference between polluting and soiling

is that polluting is while soiling is .

As an adjective polluting

is adapted or tending to pollute; causing defilement or pollution.

As a noun soiling is

an act of making dirty.

polluting

English

(Webster 1913)

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Adapted or tending to pollute; causing defilement or pollution.
  • * _ And let our polluting''' powers combine. Super Radiation
    _ Deforestation
    _ Smog
    _ Toxics
    _ Hate
    _ By your '''polluting     powers combined, I am Captain Pollution! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
    _ GO POLLUTION!'' (''     )

    • References

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    soiling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of making dirty.
  • * 2007 , Kirk-Othmer Chemical Technology and the Environment: Volume 1 (page 151)
    • An important task for any detergent is to remove visible soilings .