Narrowing vs Shrinking - What's the difference?
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The part of a stocking that is narrowed.
* 1858 , Margaret Maria Gordon, Household economy (page 60)
Narrowing is a related term of shrinking.
As verbs the difference between narrowing and shrinking
is that narrowing is while shrinking is .As nouns the difference between narrowing and shrinking
is that narrowing is the part of a stocking that is narrowed while shrinking is the act of one who, or that which, shrinks; act of becoming smaller or moving timidly away.narrowing
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(en noun)- It may be observed, as a general rule, that the length of a stocking, before the narrowings , should be, at the least'', equal to ''twice the width of the top...