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Sawing vs Sewing - What's the difference?

sawing | sewing |

As verbs the difference between sawing and sewing

is that sawing is present participle of lang=en while sewing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between sawing and sewing

is that sawing is a shaving or fragment of sawn material while sewing is the action of the verb to sew.

sawing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mostly, plural) A shaving or fragment of sawn material.
  • * 1892 , The Journal of Analytical and Applied Chemistry (volume 6, page 388)
    • We find that from a sample of sawings of the usual size a button or small bar fairly representing the sample can be cast from about 2,000 grains.

    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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