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Beckoning vs Reckoning - What's the difference?

beckoning | reckoning |

As verbs the difference between beckoning and reckoning

is that beckoning is present participle of lang=en while reckoning is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between beckoning and reckoning

is that beckoning is such a wave or similar action while reckoning is the action of calculating or estimating something.

As an adjective beckoning

is that beckons.

beckoning

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That beckons

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Such a wave or similar action

    • reckoning

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of calculating or estimating something.
  • :
  • *
  • *:When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.
  • (lb) The bill (UK) or check (US), especially at an inn or tavern.
  • *1817 , (Walter Scott), :
  • *:So saying, he called for a reckoning for the wine, and throwing down the price of the additional bottle which he had himself introduced, rose as if to take leave of us.
  • An opinion or judgement.
  • The working out of consequences or retribution for one's actions.

    • Derived terms

    * dead reckoning