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Sloughing vs Sluffing - What's the difference?

sloughing | sluffing |

As verbs the difference between sloughing and sluffing

is that sloughing is present participle of lang=en while sluffing is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun sloughing

is something sloughed off.

sloughing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something sloughed off.
  • * 2012 , Frank Spellman, Revonna Bieber, Environmental Health and Science Desk Reference (page 831)
    • As the zoogleal slime reenters the wastewater, excess solids and waste products are stripped off the media as sloughings . These sloughings are transported with the wastewater flow to a settling tank for removal.
  • (zoology) The act of casting off the skin or shell; ecdysis.
  • * 1995 , Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History: Volume 38
    • If all sloughings were successfully recorded, which is not certain since rattle segments were not color-coded during this study, the interval between events averaged 246.1 days (1.5 sloughings per snake per year).

    sluffing

    English

    Verb

    (head)