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Wearing vs Tacking - What's the difference?

wearing | tacking |

As nouns the difference between wearing and tacking

is that wearing is the mechanical process of eroding or grinding while tacking is loose temporary stitches in dressmaking etc.

As verbs the difference between wearing and tacking

is that wearing is while tacking is .

As a 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)

    tacking

    English

    Noun

  • loose temporary stitches in dressmaking etc
  • (nautical) the act of changing tack
  • (legal) A union of securities given at different times, all of which must be redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can interpose a claim.
    • (Bouvier)
    (Kent)

    Verb

    (head)