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Splitting vs Spitting - What's the difference?

splitting | spitting |

As nouns the difference between splitting and spitting

is that splitting is an instance where something splits while spitting is expectoration.

As verbs the difference between splitting and spitting

is that splitting is present participle of lang=en while spitting is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective splitting

is resembling the sound of something being split or ripped.

splitting

English

(wikipedia splitting)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An instance where something .
  • (psychology) A division in the mind, or affecting one's sense of self.
  • * 2007 , Brett Kahr, Sex and the Psyche , Penguin 2008, p. 308:
    • In other words, something troubling, such as being discovered in the toilets in a shaming way, can be both remembered and also pushed to the periphery of consciousness, a process that psychotherapists refer to as ‘splitting ’.
  • (chemistry) The cleavage of a covalent bond.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling the sound of something being split or ripped.
  • Severe.
    • I have a splitting headache.

    Verb

    (head)

    • spitting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, archaic, medicine) expectoration
  • * 1837 , James Johnson, The Medico-chirurgical review: Volume 31 (page 44)
    • Four brothers of the name of Smith, died with black spitting ; all of them were stone-workers.