different between sweeping vs dusting

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?swi?p??/
• Rhymes: -i?p??
• Hyphenation: sweep?ing

Verb

sweeping

1. present participle of sweep

Noun

sweeping (countable and uncountable, plural sweepings)

1. (countable) An instance of sweeping.

   The sidewalk needed a sweeping every morning.

2. (uncountable) The activity of sweeping.

   Sweeping took all morning.

   The sidewalk needed sweeping every morning.

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Adjective

sweeping (comparative more sweeping, superlative most sweeping)

1. wide, broad, affecting or touching upon many things

   The government will bring in sweeping changes to the income tax system.

   He loves making sweeping statements without the slightest evidence.

   • 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, "Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):

     By the time politicians in several cities backed down on Tuesday and announced that they would cut or consider reducing fares, the demonstrations had already morphed into a more sweeping social protest, with marchers waving banners carrying slogans like “The people have awakened.”

2. Completely overwhelming

   He claimed a sweeping victory.

Synonyms

• (wide; broad): across-the-board; see also Thesaurus:comprehensive or Thesaurus:generic

Translations

Anagrams

• weepings

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

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Anagrams

• Tungids, tungids