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Wring vs Whing - What's the difference?

wring | whing |

As verbs the difference between wring and whing

is that wring is to squeeze or twist tightly so that liquid is forced out while whing is to move with great force or speed.

As a noun whing is

a high-pitched ringing sound or whing can be .

wring

English

Verb

  • To squeeze or twist tightly so that liquid is forced out.
    • You must wring your wet jeans before hanging them out to dry.
  • * Bible, Judg. vi. 38
    • He rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Your overkindness doth wring tears from me.
  • To obtain by force.
    • The police said they would wring the truth out of that heinous criminal.
  • To hold tightly and press or twist.
    • Some of the patients waiting in the dentist's office were wringing their hands nervously.
    He said he'd wring my neck if I told his girlfriend.
    He wrung my hand enthusiastically when he found out we were related.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • The king began to find where his shoe did wring him.
  • * Bible, Leviticus i. 15
    • The priest shall bring it [a dove] unto the altar, and wring off his head
  • To writhe; to twist, as if in anguish.
  • To kill and animal, usually poultry, by breaking its neck by twisting.
  • * Shakespeare
    • 'Tis all men's office to speak patience / To those that wring under the load of sorrow.
  • To pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.
  • * Clarendon
    • Too much grieved and wrung by an uneasy and strait fortune.
  • * Addison
    • Didst thou taste but half the griefs / That wring my soul, thou couldst not talk thus coldly.
  • To distort; to pervert; to wrest.
  • * Whitgift
    • How dare men thus wring the Scriptures?
  • To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance.
  • * Shakespeare
    • To wring the widow from her 'customed right.
  • * Hayward
    • The merchant adventurers have been often wronged and wringed to the quick.
  • (nautical) To bend or strain out of its position.
    • to wring a mast

    References

    * * English irregular verbs ----

    whing

    English

    Etymology 1

    Onomatopoeic.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A high-pitched ringing sound
  • * 1855: Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho! The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh
    • " Whing', ' whing ," went the Spaniard's shot, like so many humming-tops, through the rigging far above their heads. . .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move with great force or speed

    • Etymology 2

    See .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1578: Henry Lyte (tr.), A Niewe herball or historie of plantes
    • The fruite is long, flat, and thinne, almost lyke to a feather of a small birde, or lyke the whing of a grashopper.
  • * 1791: letter from Colonel Darke to George Washington, quoted in Theodore Roosevelt, The Winning of the West , vol. 4 (1896)
    • we incamped in two Lines about 60 yards apart the Right whing in frunt Commanded by General Butler, the Left in the Rear which I commanded
  • * 1869: James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire, with a glossary of words now in use there; also with poems and other pieces exemplifying the dialect
    • When tha dumbledores hummin, craup out o’ tha cobwâll
  • *:: An’ shakin ther whings , thâ vleed vooäth an’ awâ.

    • References

    * OED 2nd edition 1989