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Knocking vs Banging - What's the difference?

knocking | banging |

As verbs the difference between knocking and banging

is that knocking is while banging is .

As nouns the difference between knocking and banging

is that knocking is an act in which something is knocked on, or the sound thus produced while banging is the action of the verb to bang.

As an adjective banging is

(slang) excellent, brilliant, very exciting, top, great.

knocking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act in which something is knocked on, or the sound thus produced
  • * {{quote-book, year=1893, author=W. B. Yeats, title=The Celtic Twilight, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=These strange openings and closings and knockings were warnings and reminders from the spirits who attend the dying. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1901, author=Carson Jay Lee, title=Oswald Langdon, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=There was no response to continued knockings . }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2006, date=July 21, author=Keith Harris, Monica Kendrick, Peter Margasak, Bob Mehr, Miles Raymer, Neil Tesser, title=The Treatment, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Recorded live to CD with new instrumentation--artillery shells, tuned suspension cables, boxes filled with springs--and deemphasized guitar parts, it's a beautiful collection of echoes and whispers, drones and knockings , with a gently swelling sense of the sinister. }}

    banging

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * He was banging cocktail waitresses]] two at a time!'' - Alex Rocco in the movie ''[[w:The Godfather, The Godfather

    • Noun

  • The action of the verb to bang.
    • The banging of the hammers could be heard from several streets away.

    Adjective

    banging' (also ' bangin' )
  • (slang) Excellent, brilliant, very exciting, top, great.
    • Wow, what a banging haircut! It looks terrific!
  • (colloquial, dated) Huge; great in size.
    • (Forby)
    (Webster 1913)