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Stuffing vs Packing - What's the difference?

stuffing | packing |

As verbs the difference between stuffing and packing

is that stuffing is present participle of lang=en while packing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between stuffing and packing

is that stuffing is the matter used to stuff flexible hollow objects such as pillows and saddles while packing is the action of the verb.

stuffing

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (wikipedia stuffing)
  • The matter used to stuff flexible hollow objects such as pillows and saddles.
  • Any of many food items used to stuff another.
  • stuffing for a Christmas turkey
  • A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.
  • (internet) The insertion of many copies of a word into a web page in an attempt to increase its search engine ranking.
  • A tax loophole whereby a corporation acquires property that will result in a loss of revenue, purely in order to reduce its tax liability.
  • Derived terms

    * antistuffing * knock the stuffing out

    packing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Derived terms

    * send someone packing

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb.
  • # The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey.
  • # (sciences, mathematics) The spatial arrangement of objects, items or constituent parts.
  • # The gathering of birds, animals etc. into a pack.
  • # (rugby) The forming of players into a scrum.
  • As a concrete noun.
  • # Material used to fill in the space around something, especially to make a piston etc. watertight or airtight.
  • # Material used to wrap a product for sale etc.; packaging.
  • # A fee charged to cover the costs of packaging.
  • # Special material used to fill containers or vessels for certain chemically related applications.
  • ::::*Examples: Packing in a packed bed, or a column such as a distillation column or a chromatography column

    Derived terms

    * packing case