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Seizins vs Seizing - What's the difference?

seizins | seizing |

As nouns the difference between seizins and seizing

is that seizins is while seizing is a type of lashing or binding by a small cord.

As a verb seizing is

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As an adjective seizing is

that seizes the attention; impressive.

seizins

English

Noun

(head)

    • seizing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • a type of lashing or binding by a small cord
  • *1851 ,
  • *:Cut your seizings and draw the poles, ye harpooneers!”
  • *:Silently obeying the order, the three harpooneers now stood with the detached iron part of their harpoons, some three feet long, held, barbs up, before him.
  • # Such lashing used to temporarily immobilize the ends of a rope to prevent a knot from slipping or collapsing.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That seizes the attention; impressive.
  • *1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 45:
  • *:It is a world of seizing visual beauty, of shimmering whites and yellows that shift to glowing apricot, pink and violet with the sinking of the saturant sun.