Petting vs Promote - What's the difference?
petting | promote |
The act of stroking or fondling an animal.
The act of kissing, stroking, etc., a person in a sexual manner.
The act of indulging or treating as a favourite.
* Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives
To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
To encourage, urge or incite
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, so that finding myself on the point of going, and loath to leave the tender partner of my joys behind me, I employed all the forwarding motions and arts my experience suggested to me, to promote his keeping me company to our journey's end}}
To elevate to the above league.
(label) To increase the activity of a catalyst by changing its surface structure
(label) To exchange a pawn for a queen or other piece when it reaches the 8th rank
As a noun petting
is (kissing, stroking, etc, in a sexual manner).As a verb promote is
to raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.petting
English
Verb
(head)- I am petting my rabbit
Noun
- 'Come, Jo, don't be thorny. After studying himself to a skeleton all the week, a fellow deserves petting , and ought to get it.'
Derived terms
* heavy pettingSee also
* foreplaypromote
English
Verb
(promot)- He promoted his clerk to office manager.
- Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen.
- They promoted the abolition of daylight saving time.
- They promoted the new film with giant billboards.
- At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to the Premier League.