different between shearing vs paring

English

Etymology

From Middle English scheryng; equivalent to shear +? -ing.

Adjective

shearing (not comparable)

1. Tending to cut or tear.

Verb

shearing

1. present participle of shear

Noun

shearing (countable and uncountable, plural shearings)

1. The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
2. The material cut off in this way.

3. Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
4. Alternative form of shearling.
   • 1864, William Youatt, The Complete Grazier and Farmer's and Cattle-Breeder's

     When male sheep have been castrated , they are termed — from the period of weaning to that of shearing — wether , or wedder or shear hogs or tegs, then shearings , shearlings , dinmonts , & c .

5. (Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.
6. The act or operation of dividing with shears.

7. The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
8. (mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.

Anagrams

• gnashier, hearings, hearsing

English

Verb

paring

1. present participle of pare

Noun

paring (plural parings)

1. A fragment or shaving that has been pared.
2. The cutting off of the surface of grassland for tillage.

Anagrams

• pringá, raping

Dutch

Etymology

From paren (“to pair; to mate, to copulate”) +? -ing

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pa?ring

Noun

paring f (plural paringen, diminutive parinkje n)

1. pairing (in a tournament)
2. copulation, mating