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Wearing vs Gearing - What's the difference?

wearing | gearing |

As nouns the difference between wearing and gearing

is that wearing is the mechanical process of eroding or grinding while gearing is the ratio of a system of gears.

As verbs the difference between wearing and gearing

is that wearing is while gearing is .

As an adjective wearing

is intended to be worn.

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)

    gearing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The ratio of a system of gears.
    • The 4x4 could climb well as it had relatively low gearing .

    Verb

    (head)

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