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Smelling vs Snorting - What's the difference?

smelling | snorting |

As verbs the difference between smelling and snorting

is that smelling is while snorting is .

As nouns the difference between smelling and snorting

is that smelling is the act by which something is smelled while snorting is a snort sound or action.

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

    snorting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A snort sound or action.
    • Gaining the more open water, the bracing breeze waxed fresh; the little Moss tossed the quick foam from her bows, as a young colt his snortings .'' — Herman Melville, ''Moby-Dick .