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Answering vs Talking - What's the difference?

answering | talking |

As verbs the difference between answering and talking

is that answering is while talking is .

As nouns the difference between answering and talking

is that answering is the act of giving an answer while talking is the action of the verb talk .

answering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of giving an answer.
  • * 1923 , John Cann Bailey, The Continuity of Letters (page 107)
    • An answer that comes out of the whirlwind is, logically, no answer at all: it belongs to a world above that of logical answerings .

    talking

    English

    Noun

  • The action of the verb talk .
  • * , chapter=10
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking ; just to watch was pleasant.}}
  • * Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?
    • He did not himself care for the loose little talkings , half flat and half sharp, of men when they meet together in idleness.

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