different between clothe vs wearing

English

Etymology

From Middle English clothen, from Old English cl?þian (“to clothe”), from Proto-Germanic *klaiþ?n? (“to clothe”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to adhere to, stick”). Cognate with Dutch kleden, German kleiden, Swedish kläda, after apocope klä. See also cloth, clad.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kl??ð/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?klo?ð/
• Rhymes: -??ð

Verb

clothe (third-person singular simple present clothes, present participle clothing, simple past and past participle clothed or (archaic) clad)

1. (transitive) To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing.
   • 1478, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, 101-104, [1]

     A YEMAN hadde he and servantz namo / At that tyme, for hym liste ride soo; / And he was clad in cote and hood of grene.
2. (figuratively) To cover or invest, as if with a garment.

   • language in which they can clothe their thoughts

   • 1726, John Dyer, Grongar Hill

     His sides are clothed with waving wood.

Synonyms

• (to adorn or cover with clothing): dight, don, put on; see also Thesaurus:clothe

Derived terms

• beclothe
• overclothe
• underclothe

Translations

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English cl?þ.

Noun

clothe

1. Alternative form of cloth

Etymology 2

From Old English cl?þian.

Verb

clothe

1. Alternative form of clothen

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: w?r??ng, IPA^(key): /?w????/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w?????/
• Rhymes: -?????
• Homophones: waring, Waring

Adjective

wearing (comparative more wearing, superlative most wearing)

1. intended to be worn

   Clothes used to be called wearing apparel

2. causing tiredness
3. causing erosion

Translations

Noun

wearing (plural wearings)

1. The mechanical process of eroding or grinding.
2. The act by which something is worn.

   formal crown-wearings

3. That which is worn; clothes; garments.

Translations

Verb

wearing

1. present participle of wear

Derived terms

• hard-wearing (or hardwearing, hard wearing)

Anagrams

• Wareing, Wiganer, Winegar