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Wearing vs Warping - What's the difference?

wearing | warping |

As nouns the difference between wearing and warping

is that wearing is the mechanical process of eroding or grinding while warping is an action or motion that warps or twists.

As verbs the difference between wearing and warping

is that wearing is while warping 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)

    warping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An action or motion that warps or twists.
  • * Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
    • Such inertia-less states stand in absolute contrast (and complementarity) to the positive disorders of Parkinsonism, with their intense inertia and resistance to change, their violent warpings of space and field
  • (geology) the deformation of the Earth's crust over a large area
  • The art or occupation of preparing warp or webs for the weaver.
    • (Craig)