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Breaking vs Tearing - What's the difference?

breaking | tearing |

As verbs the difference between breaking and tearing

is that breaking is while tearing is .

As nouns the difference between breaking and tearing

is that breaking is the act by which something is broken while tearing is the act by which something is torn; a laceration or tearing can be (medicine) continuous shedding of tears; epiphora.

As an adjective tearing is

very hasty.

breaking

English

(wikipedia breaking)

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • The act by which something is broken.
  • * 2009 , John Renard, Tales of God's Friends: Islamic Hagiography in Translation (page 53)
    • We, on the other hand, do not reject the occurrence of breakings of the natural order of things that occur in connection with a prescribed proclamation
  • (linguistics) A change of a vowel to a diphthong
  • (music) A form of ornamentation in which groups of short notes are used instead of long ones
  • break dancing
  • * 2014 , Karen Schupp, Studying Dance: A Guide for Campus and Beyond (page 48)
    • The urban dance genre includes breaking , waacking, and house dancing, among others.

    Derived terms

    * aerobreaking

    Anagrams

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    tearing

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • very hasty
    • a tearing hurry

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The act by which something is torn; a laceration.
  • (computer graphics) Distortion of an animated display when the contents of the framebuffer are rendered while it contains portions of two or more frames.
  • * 2003 , David P. Luebke, Level of detail for 3D graphics (page 303)
    • Even in this case, tearing still results if the swap occurs in the middle of a refresh cycle.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • (medicine) continuous shedding of tears; epiphora

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