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Smelling vs Onding - What's the difference?

smelling | onding |

As nouns the difference between smelling and onding

is that smelling is the act by which something is smelled while onding is breathing; smelling or onding can be a heavy, continuous fall of rain or snow; a downpour.

As a verb smelling

is .

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

    onding

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) ondyng, equivalent to .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Breathing; smelling.

    • Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A heavy, continuous fall of rain or snow; a downpour.