Walling vs Calling - What's the difference?
walling | calling |
A group of walls.
Material used for walls.
A method of torture in which a person's neck is encircled by a collar, which is then used to slam the person against a wall.
A strong urge to become religious.
A job or occupation.
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As verbs the difference between walling and calling
is that walling is while calling is .As nouns the difference between walling and calling
is that walling is a group of walls while calling is a strong urge to become religious.walling
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(en noun)Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling , if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}