different between swilling vs stilling

English

Verb

swilling

1. present participle of swill

Noun

swilling (plural swillings)

1. Greedy drinking.
   • 1942, Charles Graves, The Avengers (page 24)

     Amid raucous shouts and swillings of beer they informed Tommy that he had just been awarded an immediate bar to his D.F.C. […]

Anagrams

• Willings, willings

English

Etymology 1

Verb

stilling

1. present participle of still

Noun

stilling (plural stillings)

1. The act by which something is made still.
   • 2011, Griselda Pollock, Maxim Silverman, Concentrationary Cinema

     Rivette's interdiction on the tracking shot in Kapò contrasted with the double structure of arrests/stillings of image and spectator in Night and Fog served as an ethico-political talisman for all Daney's mature film criticism.

Etymology 2

Compare Low German Stelling, German stellen (“to set, to place”).

Noun

stilling (plural stillings)

1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A stillion.

Anagrams

• liltings, tillings

Danish

Etymology

From stille +? -ing

Noun

stilling

1. position
2. post (position in employment)

Derived terms

Icelandic

Etymology

From stilla (“adjust, tune”) +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?tli?k/
• Rhymes: -?tli?k

Noun

stilling f (genitive singular stillingar, nominative plural stillingar)

1. adjustment
2. composure
3. (music) tuning

Declension

Derived terms

• hjartastilling

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From stille +? -ing

Noun

stilling f or m (definite singular stillinga or stillingen, indefinite plural stillinger, definite plural stillingene)

1. position
2. post (position in employment)

Derived terms

• særstilling

References

• “stilling” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From stille +? -ing

Noun

stilling f (definite singular stillinga, indefinite plural stillingar, definite plural stillingane)

1. position
2. post (position in employment)

Derived terms

• særstilling

References

• “stilling” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.