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Braking vs Skidding - What's the difference?

braking | skidding |

As verbs the difference between braking and skidding

is that braking is present participle of lang=en while skidding is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between braking and skidding

is that braking is the act of applying brakes while skidding is the motion of something that skids.

braking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of applying brakes.
    • the acceleratings and brakings of a vehicle

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    skidding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of something that skids.
  • * 1917 , B. M. Bower, Starr of the Desert (page 57)
    • When an automobile, for instance, traveled that road, it was with many skiddings in the sand on the turns, which it must take circumspectly if the driver did not care for the rocky, uneven floor of the desert itself.