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Tailing vs Wailing - What's the difference?

tailing | wailing |

As verbs the difference between tailing and wailing

is that tailing is present participle of lang=en while wailing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between tailing and wailing

is that tailing is the act of following someone while wailing is a loud drawn out scream and howl.

tailing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of following someone.
  • (architecture) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
    • (Gwilt)
  • (obsolete) sexual intercourse
    • (Chaucer)
  • (obsolete) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing; chaff.
    • (Webster 1913)

    See also

    * tailings

    wailing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A loud drawn out scream and howl.
  • *1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5:
  • *:'For as soon as I heard Tewkesbury tell of screams and wailings in the air, and no one to be seen,' said Elzevir, 'I guessed that some poor soul had got shut in the vault, and was there crying for his life.

    • Verb

    (head)
    • Craig ran off wailing because his friend pulled a prank on him.