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Searing vs Shearing - What's the difference?

searing | shearing |

As adjectives the difference between searing and shearing

is that searing is very hot; blistering or boiling while shearing is tending to cut or tear.

As nouns the difference between searing and shearing

is that searing is action of the verb to searshearing is the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.

As verbs the difference between searing and shearing

is that searing is present participle of lang=en while shearing is present participle of lang=en.

searing

English

Adjective

(head)
  • very hot; blistering or boiling
  • (of a pain) having a sensation of intense sudden heat

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • action of the verb to sear
  • *
    • he was raw with the searings of the fire
  • * 1970 , Ebony (volume 25, number 10, August 1970, page 156)
    • It was the time of new searings of black identity deep within the psyche of the black community.
  • cooking food quickly at high temperature

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

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    shearing

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Tending to cut or tear.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
  • The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine.
    • the whole shearing''' of a flock; the '''shearings from cloth
  • .
    • (Youatt)
  • (Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.
  • The act or operation of dividing with shears.
    • the shearing of metal plates
  • The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
  • (mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
    • (Webster 1913)