different between tiring vs tiding

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a??r??

Verb

tiring

1. present participle of tire

Noun

tiring (plural tirings)

1. (uncountable) The action of tiring.
2. (falconry) Bits of bone and tough organic material from a corpse given to hawks to abate their hunger.

Adjective

tiring (comparative more tiring, superlative most tiring)

1. That tires or tire.

   Carrying my bags up four flights of stairs is very tiring.

Derived terms

• untiring

Related terms

• tiresome

Translations

Anagrams

• ingirt

English

Alternative forms

• tidinde (obsolete)
• tidind (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English tiding, tidinge (also tidinde, tidende, etc.), from Late Old English t?dung, from t?dan (“to befall; happen”), probably with assimilation to -ing.Either from or influenced by Old Norse tíðindi ( > Danish/Norwegian tidende). Cognate with Dutch tijding, German Zeitung.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?d??/

Noun

tiding (plural tidings)

1. (archaic or literary, usually in the plural) news; new information
   • Glad tidings we bring / To you and your kin. — A traditional Christmas carol.
   • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:

     For men be now tratlers and tellers of tales;
     What tidings at Totnam, what newis in Wales,
     What ?hippis are ?ailing to Scalis Malis?
     And all is not worth a couple of nut ?halis.

   • 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, Book 2, Ch. 2, St. Edmundsbury

     But yet it is pity we had lost tidings of our souls: actually we shall have to go in quest of them again, or worse in all ways will befall!

Translations

Verb

tiding

1. present participle of tide

References

Anagrams

• diting, tingid