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Knocking vs Tapping - What's the difference?

knocking | tapping |

As verbs the difference between knocking and tapping

is that knocking is while tapping is .

As nouns the difference between knocking and tapping

is that knocking is an act in which something is knocked on, or the sound thus produced while tapping is an act of making a light hit or strike against something.

knocking

English

Verb

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  • 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. }}

    tapping

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia tapping) (en noun)
  • An act of making a light hit or strike against something.
  • *1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 20
  • *:As he was speaking there was a soft tapping at the door. I went over and opened it...
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 26, author=Alastair Macaulay, title=Leading the Audience Into Flamenco’s Heart, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=She has rapid and powerful footwork, but she doesn’t wow you with any special trills or woodpecker tappings . }}
  • (music) A guitar technique in which the strings are tapped against the fingerboard
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