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Stelling vs Smelling - What's the difference?

stelling | smelling |

As nouns the difference between stelling and smelling

is that stelling is position, configuration while smelling is the act by which something is smelled.

As a verb smelling is

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stelling

Dutch

(Stelling van Amsterdam)

Noun

  • position, configuration
    • Stelling van Amsterdam — Defense line of Amsterdam
  • thesis, contention
  • sentence
  • theorem

    • Derived terms

    * leerstelling * tegenstelling * voorstelling

    smelling

    English

    Verb

    (head)
    • foul-smelling (having a foul smell)
    sweet-smelling (having a sweet smell)

    Derived terms

    * smelling salts

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is smelled.
  • * 2004 , Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)
    • To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings , chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires