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Wearing vs Weathering - What's the difference?

wearing | weathering |

As nouns the difference between wearing and weathering

is that wearing is the mechanical process of eroding or grinding while weathering is weather, especially favourable or fair weather.

As verbs the difference between wearing and weathering

is that wearing is present participle of lang=en while weathering is present participle of lang=en.

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)

    weathering

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia weathering)
  • (obsolete) Weather, especially favourable or fair weather.
  • (geology) Mechanical]] or chemical [[break down, breaking down of rocks in situ by weather or other causes.
  • (architecture) A slight inclination given to an approximately horizontal surface to enable it to throw off water.
  • Derived terms

    * space weathering

    Verb

    (head)