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Moving vs Gripping - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between moving and gripping

is that moving is (no comparative or superlative) That moves or move while gripping is catching the attention; exciting; interesting; absorbing; fascinating.

As verbs the difference between moving and gripping

is that moving is present participle of lang=en while gripping is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between moving and gripping

is that moving is the relocation of goods while gripping is obsolete form of lang=en pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.

moving

English

(wikipedia moving)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (no comparative or superlative ) That moves or move.
    • moving pictures
  • That causes someone to feel emotion.
  • * Coleridge
    • I sang an old moving story.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • (uncountable) The relocation of goods
  • (countable) A causing of a movement
    • The rats' movings are willed movements.

    gripping

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Catching the attention; exciting; interesting; absorbing; fascinating.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines)
  • * 1727 , Alexander Hamilton, A new account of the East Indies
    • The same Night it began to operate by Grippings and Sweating, and he being bred a Surgeon, took some Medicines to correct the Grippings, which in some Measure the Medicine did, but he lost his Appetite