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Smelling vs Inhaling - What's the difference?

smelling | inhaling |

As verbs the difference between smelling and inhaling

is that smelling is while inhaling is .

As nouns the difference between smelling and inhaling

is that smelling is the act by which something is smelled while inhaling is inhalation.

smelling

English

Verb

(head)
    • foul-smelling (having a foul smell)
    sweet-smelling (having a sweet smell)

    Derived terms

    * smelling salts

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is smelled.
  • * 2004 , Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)
    • To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings , chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires

    inhaling

    English

    (wikipedia inhaling)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • inhalation
  • * 2001 , Frederick Alan Casemore, Skylarks: For Myself, Lest I Forget, Or Die Unsung (page 171)
    • Smoking was difficult, I had to have perfect timing, sticking my head as far out the tiny porthole as I could, and timing my puffs to the inhalings and exhalings of the ship.