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Wearing vs Wading - What's the difference?

wearing | wading |

As adjectives the difference between wearing and wading

is that wearing is intended to be worn while wading is appropriate to wade in.

As nouns the difference between wearing and wading

is that wearing is the mechanical process of eroding or grinding while wading is the act of one who wades.

As verbs the difference between wearing and wading

is that wearing is while wading 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)

    wading

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Appropriate to wade in.
    • The pool is too small for doing laps: it's only a wading pool.
  • Which wades.
    • Flamingos are wading birds.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who wades.
  • * (Charles Kingsley)

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