Twilling vs Willing - What's the difference?
twilling | willing |
Twilled fabric or patterning, or the process which produces this.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 563:
Ready to do something that is not (can't be expected as) a matter of course.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness. The Celebrity as a matter of course was master of ceremonies.}}
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
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As nouns the difference between twilling and willing
is that twilling is twilled fabric or patterning, or the process which produces this while willing is the execution of a will.As an adjective willing is
ready to do something that is not (can't be expected as) a matter of course.As a verb willing is
present participle of lang=en.twilling
English
Noun
(en noun)- It seemed to Yashmeen that the secret of the Snazzbury frock lay in the lining , the precise, as one would say, microscopic fine-structure of the twilling , which after inspection seemed far from uniform in the way it skipped over the threads
willing
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Fantasy of navigation, passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}