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Staggering vs Stacking - What's the difference?

staggering | stacking |

As verbs the difference between staggering and stacking

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

As nouns the difference between staggering and stacking

is that staggering is the motion of one who staggers while stacking is the act by which something is stacked.

As an adjective staggering

is incredible, overwhelming, amazing.

staggering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Incredible, overwhelming, amazing.
    • The army suffered a staggering defeat.

    Derived terms

    * staggeringly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of one who staggers.
  • * 1837 , Memoirs of Mirabeau'' (in ''The Westminster Review , volume 26, page 436)
    • There are to whom the gods, in their bounty, give glory: but far oftener it is given in wrath, as a curse and a poison; disturbing the whole inner health and industry of the man; leading onward through dizzy staggerings and tarantula jiggings
  • That which staggers something or somebody.
  • * (Ebenezer Erskine)
    • But these doubts, and fears, and staggerings , although they may be in the believer, yet they are not in his faith; these things argue the infirmity of his faith, indeed; but under all this, faith is fighting for the victory

    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

    (head)