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Swelling vs Welling - What's the difference?

swelling | welling |

As nouns the difference between swelling and welling

is that swelling is the state of being swollen while welling is the act of something that wells, or issues forth like water.

As verbs the difference between swelling and welling

is that swelling is present participle of lang=en while welling is present participle of lang=en.

swelling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The state of being swollen.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= a1420 , year_published= 1894 , author= The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056 , by= (Lanfranc of Milan) , title= Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie." , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=6XktAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63 , original= , chapter= Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone , section= , isbn= 1163911380 , edition= , publisher= K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co , location= London , editor= Robert von Fleischhacker , volume= , page= 63 , passage= Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge ; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra. }}
  • Anything swollen, especially any abnormally swollen part of the body.

    • See also

    * edema

    Verb

    (head)

    • welling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that wells, or issues forth like water.
  • * 1947 , T. A. Jaggar, Origin and Development of Craters
    • Later experience suggested that such wellings up of molten glass from caverns filled with active lava in a period of outflow might be due to sudden generation of steam from cascades of water during torrential rainfall.