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Declining vs Reclining - What's the difference?

declining | reclining |

As verbs the difference between declining and reclining

is that declining is present participle of lang=en while reclining is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between declining and reclining

is that declining is decline while reclining is the act of one who reclines.

As an adjective reclining is

capable of being reclined, or moved into a more horizontal position.

declining

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • decline
  • * John Whitgift
    • For they had no civil magistrate which might correct and reform those declinings when they happened.

    reclining

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Capable of being reclined, or moved into a more horizontal position.
    • a reclining armchair

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who reclines.
  • * 1865 , (Edward Dutton Cook), Sir Felix Foy, Bart. (page 233)
    • Mr. Disbrowe was reclining on a well-worn horsehair-covered sofa, his frequent reclinings on which piece of furniture had stamped a deep and quite ineffaceable impression of his weighty form upon the cushion.