Sharpening vs Whet - What's the difference?
sharpening | whet |
The act by which something is sharpened.
* 1970 , Heinrich Wölfflin, Drawings of Albrecht Dürer (page 4)
(in the plural) The debris produced when a pencil is sharpened.
To hone or rub on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening – see whetstone.
* Milton
* Byron
To stimulate or make more keen.
* Shakespeare
* 2003-10-20 , Naomi Wolf,
The act of whetting something.
That which whets or sharpens; especially, an appetizer.
* Spectator
* sips, drams, and whets
As verbs the difference between sharpening and whet
is that sharpening is present participle of lang=en while whet is to hone or rub on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening – see whetstone.As nouns the difference between sharpening and whet
is that sharpening is the act by which something is sharpened while whet is the act of whetting something.sharpening
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- There are flourishes and coloratura passages in this art, heightenings and sharpenings of the line that serve only to give the needy linear system a value of its own in confrontation with nature.
whet
English
Verb
(whett)- The mower whets his scythe.
- Here roams the wolf, the eagle whets his beak.
- to whet one's appetite or one's courage
- Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, / I have not slept.
The Porn Myth], [http://nymag.com/ New York Magazine
- In the end, porn doesn’t whet men’s appetites—it turns them off the real thing.
