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Rifling vs Trifling - What's the difference?

rifling | trifling |

As nouns the difference between rifling and trifling

is that rifling is the act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel while trifling is the act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.

As a verb rifling

is .

As an adjective trifling is

trivial, or of little importance.

rifling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.
  • The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon. Shunt rifling, rifling for cannon, in which one side of the groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate loading with shot having projections which enter by the deeper part of the grooves.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • References

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    trifling

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • trivial, or of little importance
  • * 2005 , .
    • it doesn't take him long to make any of them, and he sells them for some trifling sum of money.
  • idle or frivolous

    • Synonyms

    * trivial * inconsequential * petty * See also

    Related terms

    * trifle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.
  • * George Croly, Samuel Warren, Marston, or the Memoirs of a Statesman
    • He writes on the principle, of course, that in one's dotage we are privileged to return to the triflings of our infancy, and that Downing Street cannot be better employed in these days than as a chapel of ease to Eton.

    Anagrams

    * flirting