Waft vs Wafting - What's the difference?
waft | wafting |
(ergative) To (cause to) float easily or gently through the air.
* A breeze came in through the open window and wafted her sensuous perfume into my eager nostrils.
* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
* 1914 , Hugh G. Evelyn-White’s translation of Hymn to Aphrodite from the .[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0138%3Ahymn%3D6]
To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float.
* Dryden
To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon.
* Shakespeare
A light breeze.
Something (a scent or odor), such as a perfume, that is carried through the air.
* 1908 ,
* 2010 September, "The SLM'' Calendar", , ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 170:
(nautical) A flag, (also called a waif or wheft), used to indicate wind direction or, with a knot tied in the center, as a signal.
An instance of wafting; the action of something that wafts.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 31, author=Bryan Miller, title=In a Yale Dining Hall, Independent Study at the Microwave, work=New York Times
, passage=The following afternoon they fired up an ancient wood-frame charcoal grill and laid on the pig, suffusing the quad with the sweet waftings of barbecue — that is, until the grill caught fire and collapsed. }}
As verbs the difference between waft and wafting
is that waft is (ergative) to (cause to) float easily or gently through the air while wafting is .As nouns the difference between waft and wafting
is that waft is a light breeze while wafting is an instance of wafting; the action of something that wafts.waft
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(en verb)- Through the open window of the church the fragrant incense was wafted and with it the fragrant names of her who was conceived without stain of original sin…
- There the moist breath of the western wind wafted her over the waves of the loud-moaning sea in soft foam, and there the gold-filleted Hours welcomed her joyously.
- And now the shouts waft near the citadel.
- But soft: who wafts us yonder?
Noun
(en noun)- Meanwhile, the wafts from his old home pleaded, whispered, conjured, and finally claimed him imperiously.
- Patrol Magazine says of this Oxford, Miss., band: "Guitars are responsible for every noise in Colour Revolt's mix—not a single note of piano, waft of synthesizer, or evidence of electronic tampering are to be found."
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