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Yawning vs Dawning - What's the difference?

yawning | dawning |

As verbs the difference between yawning and dawning

is that yawning is present participle of lang=en while dawning is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between yawning and dawning

is that yawning is the action of the verb yawn while dawning is dawn.

As an adjective yawning

is that yawns or yawn.

yawning

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb yawn.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That yawns or yawn.
  • (figuratively) Wide open.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The machine of a new soul , passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what.}}

    dawning

    English

    Alternative forms

    * daunyng

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Dawn.
  • *:
  • *:Anone after cam the knyght with the two swerdes and balan his broder / and brought with hem kynge Ryons of Northwalys and there delyuerd hym to the porters and charged hem with hym / & soo they two retorned ageyne in the daunyng of the day
  • * 1874 , , (The City of Dreadful Night)
  • never there / Can come the lucid morning's fragrant breath / After the dewy dawning' s cold grey air
  • The first beginnings of something.
  • *1995 , (Pinky and the Brain) , theme:
  • *:Before each night is done, / Their plan will be unfurled, / By the dawning of the sun, / They'll take over the world.
  • Verb

    (head)