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Wearing vs Eating - What's the difference?

wearing | eating |

As adjectives the difference between wearing and eating

is that wearing is intended to be worn while eating is suitable to be eaten without being cooked.

As nouns the difference between wearing and eating

is that wearing is the mechanical process of eroding or grinding while eating is the act of ingesting food.

As verbs the difference between wearing and eating

is that wearing is while eating is .

wearing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • intended to be worn
  • * Clothes used to be called wearing apparel
  • causing tiredness
  • * '>citation
  • causing erosion

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The mechanical process of eroding or grinding.
  • The act by which something is worn.
    • formal crown-wearings
  • That which is worn; clothes; garments.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Give me my nightly wearing and adieu.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * hard-wearing (or hardwearing, hard wearing)

    eating

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Suitable to be eaten without being cooked.
    • Wait! That's not an eating apple.

    Noun

    (wikipedia eating)
  • The act of ingesting food.
  • Food; cooking, cuisine.
    • I remember when we visited Aunt Martha's house, we had some really good eating !
  • The act of corroding or consuming some substance.

    • Synonyms

    * (ingesting food) dining, consuming, consumption

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