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Jesting vs Westing - What's the difference?

jesting | westing |

As nouns the difference between jesting and westing

is that jesting is joking while westing is a distance west of a datum line on a map or chart.

As an adjective jesting

is facetious.

As a verb jesting

is present participle of lang=en.

jesting

English

Noun

  • joking
  • * Shakespeare
    • Yet in the midst of all her pure protestings, / Her faith, her oaths, her tears and all were jestings .
  • bantering; ridicule
  • mocking

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • facetious
  • humorous
  • * Macaulay
    • He will find that these are no jesting matters.
  • playful; mocking
  • jeering

    • Verb

    (head)

    • westing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A distance west of a datum line on a map or chart
  • (nautical) A distance travelled westward

    • Anagrams

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