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Smearing vs Shearing - What's the difference?

smearing | shearing |

As verbs the difference between smearing and shearing

is that smearing is while shearing is .

As nouns the difference between smearing and shearing

is that smearing is something smeared or daubed while shearing is the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.

As an adjective shearing is

tending to cut or tear.

smearing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something smeared or daubed.

    • 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)