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Sewing vs Mending - What's the difference?

sewing | mending |

As verbs the difference between sewing and mending

is that sewing is while mending is .

As nouns the difference between sewing and mending

is that sewing is the action of the verb to sew while mending is the act by which something is mended or repaired.

sewing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • The action of the verb to sew .
  • Something that is being or has been sewn.
    • She put down her sewing and went to answer the door.
    The sewing has come undone on this seam.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
    • Mrs. Flanders had left her sewing on the table. There were her large reels of white cotton and her steel spectacles; her needle-case; her brown wool wound round an old postcard.

    Derived terms

    * sewing machine

    Anagrams

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    mending

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is mended or repaired.
  • * 1844 , Edmund Leahy, A Practical Treatise on Making and Repairing Roads (page 133)
    • This road though frequently repaired had been nevertheless but little the better for the frequent mendings