Soaking vs Cleaning - What's the difference?
soaking | cleaning |
Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.
Extremely wet; saturated.
(gerund of clean) A situation in which something is cleaned
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The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc.
As verbs the difference between soaking and cleaning
is that soaking is while cleaning is .As nouns the difference between soaking and cleaning
is that soaking is immersion in water; a drenching or dunking while cleaning is (gerund of clean) a situation in which something is cleaned.As an adjective soaking
is extremely wet; saturated.soaking
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(en noun)- 1906' ''"We came on a wild-goose chase", grumbled one, as he stirred the fire. "Got nothing but a '''soaking for our pains".'' — Horatio Alger, ''Joe the Hotel Boy ,
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(en adjective)- 1847' ''I shuddered as I stood and looked round me: it was an inclement day for outdoor exercise; not positively rainy, but darkened by a drizzling yellow fog; all under foot was still '''soaking wet with the floods of yesterday. — Charlotte Bronte, ''Jane Eyre ,
Chapter 5.
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