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Rotting vs Dotting - What's the difference?

rotting | dotting |

As verbs the difference between rotting and dotting

is that rotting is while dotting is .

As nouns the difference between rotting and dotting

is that rotting is the process by which something rots while dotting is a dotted pattern; a speckling.

rotting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process by which something rots.
  • * 1686 , Robert Plot, The Natural History of Staffordshire (page 214)
    • the mould on the boles of the other [trees], that lyes commonly there, and is made of the annual rottings of their own leaves.
  • Material that has rotted.
  • * , Possum
    • From the compost rinds and rottings , from the garbage peels, from the shadows' darkness, darkness, this guttered meal and all its redolence.

    dotting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A dotted pattern; a speckling.
  • * 2011 , Claire Messud, The Emperor's Children (page 19)
    • There was little to be done about the stubborn dottings of mold on the basement wall (she blamed the aluminum siding, after all these years, which kept the house from breathing) or in a patch on the blue bathroom lino behind the toilet.