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Poring vs Thinking - What's the difference?

poring | thinking |

As verbs the difference between poring and thinking

is that poring is present participle of lang=en while thinking is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between poring and thinking

is that poring is the act of one who pores while thinking is gerund of think.

poring

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who pores.
  • * 1833 , Oliver Moore, The Staff Officer: Or, the Soldier of Fortune
    • During my porings over a volume of the former for 1794, I fell upon a paragraph which caused such a sudden perturbation in my whole appearance, as to excite the curiosity of the surgeon

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    thinking

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Gerund of think.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The machine of a new soul , passage= But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking —and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.}}

    Derived terms

    * critical thinking * thinking man * wishful thinking

    Verb

    (head)
  • *, chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking ; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}

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