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Soaring vs Soaking - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between soaring and soaking

is that soaring is mounting on the wing; rising aloft; towering in thought or mind while soaking is .

As nouns the difference between soaring and soaking

is that soaring is the act of mounting on the wing, or of towering in thought or mind; intellectual flight while soaking is immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.

As adjectives the difference between soaring and soaking

is that soaring is assurgent, ascending while soaking is extremely wet; saturated.

soaring

English

Verb

(head)
  • Mounting on the wing; rising aloft; towering in thought or mind.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of mounting on the wing, or of towering in thought or mind; intellectual flight.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • assurgent, ascending
  • * Soaring fuel prices make U.S. energy policy one of the hottest issues of the presidential campaign [http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/election/s_574218.html].

    • soaking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.
    • 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 , Chapter 2.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Extremely wet; saturated.
    • 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.