different between brushing vs dusting

brushing

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?b??.???/
  • Rhymes: -????

Verb

brushing

  1. present participle of brush

Noun

brushing (plural brushings)

  1. An instance of brushing.
    Give your shoes a brushing to get the mud off.

Adjective

brushing (comparative more brushing, superlative most brushing)

  1. (dated) brisk; light
    a brushing gallop

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /b?œ.?i?/

Noun

brushing m (plural brushings)

  1. blow-dry

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dusting

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?d?st??/
  • Rhymes: -?st??

Verb

dusting

  1. present participle of dust

Noun

dusting (plural dustings)

  1. A light snowfall.
  2. A light covering of something.
  3. The act of removing dust from the furniture, as a household chore.
    • 1908, Francis Hopkinson Smith, Peter: A Novel of Which He Is Not the Hero
      Strict orders had been given by Mrs. Breen the night before that certain dustings and arrangings of furniture should take place, the spacious stairs swept, and the hectic hired palms in their great china pots watered.
  4. (colloquial) A beating.
  5. A maintenance or comfort behaviour in which a bird flushes fine dirt through the feathers; dust-bathing.

Related terms

  • crop-dusting

Translations

Anagrams

  • Tungids, tungids

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