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Staking vs Stacking - What's the difference?

staking | stacking |

As verbs the difference between staking and stacking

is that staking is present participle of lang=en while stacking is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between staking and stacking

is that staking is an act of stabbing with a stake while stacking is the act by which something is stacked.

staking

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of stabbing with a stake.
  • * 2009 , Jonathan Maberry, David F. Kramer, They Bite
    • Despite the quick, clean “dustings” shown on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or the bloody stakings in so many vampire films, the stake was not a weapon used to actually destroy a vampire but a tool in a more elaborate exorcism.

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    stacking

    English

    Noun

  • The act by which something is stacked.
    • the number of possible stackings of eight boxes
  • (uncountable) Sport stacking.
  • (chemistry, countable) A stacked arrangement of often aromatic molecules, adopted due to interatomic interactions.
  • Making claims for a single incident on multiple insurance policies.
  • (photography) An image processing technique to reduce noise or add special effects.
  • (television) A technique for keeping a captive audience by grouping together programs with similar appeal.

    • Derived terms

    * antistacking

    Verb

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