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Rolling vs Reeling - What's the difference?

rolling | reeling |

As verbs the difference between rolling and reeling

is that rolling is present participle of lang=en while reeling is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between rolling and reeling

is that rolling is the act by which something is rolled while reeling is the motion of something that reels.

rolling

English

Verb

(head)
  • Staggered in time and space; used with blackout, brownout, introduction.

    • Synonyms

    * rowling

    Derived terms

    * rolling in dough, rolling in money * rolling introduction * rolling stock

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is rolled.
  • * 2007 , Greg Patent, ?Dave McLean, A Baker's Odyssey
    • Refrigerating the dough between rollings and foldings also makes the dough easy to handle and prevents the butter from becoming too soft.

    reeling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of something that reels.
  • * (Jeremy Taylor)
    • Epilepsies, or fallings and reelings , and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.

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