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Uplifting vs Upgrading - What's the difference?

uplifting | upgrading |

As nouns the difference between uplifting and upgrading

is that uplifting is the act of something being lifted upward while upgrading is the act by which something is upgraded.

As an adjective uplifting

is improving the mood; causing cheerfulness.

As a verb upgrading is

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uplifting

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Improving the mood; causing cheerfulness.
    • Listening to whalesong can be very uplifting .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something being lifted upward.
  • * (Herman Melville)
    • prodigious long upliftings of their legs
  • * 1847 , The American Journal of Science and Arts (page 91)
    • The borders of large subsiding areas sooner or later experiencing deep fissurings and extensive upliftings through the tension or horizontal force of the subsiding crust

    upgrading

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is upgraded.