different between backing vs assisting

English

Etymology

back +? -ing

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæk.??(?)/
• Rhymes: -æk??

Noun

backing (countable and uncountable, plural backings)

1. Support, especially financial.

   It's a volunteer organization that works with backing from the city and a few grants.

2. A liner or other material added behind or underneath.

   The cardboard backing gives the notebook a little extra stiffness.

3. (television, film) A backdrop.
   • 2013, Gerald Millerson, TV Scenic Design (page 134)

     The simplest and cheapest answer is to introduce a scenic backing of some kind, a backdrop, a drape, some flats to restrict the shot and obscure whatever is outside.

4. (music) Musicians and vocalists who support the main performer.
5. The mounting of a horse or other animal.
6. The action of putting something back; a switching into reverse.

Translations

Adjective

backing (not comparable)

1. (music) Providing support for the main performer.

Verb

backing

1. present participle of back

Anagrams

• king cab

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s?st??/

Verb

assisting

1. present participle of assist

Noun

assisting (plural assistings)

1. assistance; help given
   • 1871, The Bible Christian magazine, a continuation of the Arminian magazine

     […] through atonement for sin by the death of Christ the world has been blessed with a dispensation of helping influences — the gracious and altogether sufficient assistings of the Holy Ghost.

Adjective

assisting (comparative more assisting, superlative most assisting)

1. (archaic) Helpful; auxiliary (to).
   • 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 105:

     In the meantime, he plainly perceived that she would not stoop to be directly assisting to his views on Laura.