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Wears vs Wearing - What's the difference?

wears | wearing |

As nouns the difference between wears and wearing

is that wears is while wearing is the mechanical process of eroding or grinding.

As verbs the difference between wears and wearing

is that wears is (wear) while wearing is .

As an adjective wearing is

intended to be worn.

wears

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (wear)

    • Anagrams

    * * * *

    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)