Moving vs Piquant - What's the difference?
moving | piquant | Related terms |
(no comparative or superlative ) That moves or move.
That causes someone to feel emotion.
* Coleridge
(uncountable) The relocation of goods
(countable) A causing of a movement
Engaging; charming.
Favorably stimulating to the palate; pleasantly spicy; stimulating.
* 2000 , Lynn Bedford Hall, Best of Cooking in South Africa (page 2000)
* 2005 , Clifford A. Wright, Some like it hot: spicy favorites from the world's hot zones
* 2009 , Sara Engra, Katie Luber, Kimberly Toqe, The Spice Kitchen: Everyday Cooking with Organic Spices (page 9)
(archaic) Causing hurt feelings; scathing.
Moving is a related term of piquant.
As adjectives the difference between moving and piquant
is that moving is (no comparative or superlative ) that moves or move while piquant is engaging; charming.As a verb moving
is .As a noun moving
is (uncountable) the relocation of goods.moving
English
(wikipedia moving)Adjective
(en adjective)- moving pictures
- I sang an old moving story.
Verb
(head)Noun
- The rats' movings are willed movements.
piquant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- These chops are baked in a piquant sauce containing fruit, honey, cinnamon, lemon and port, all of which reduces to a spicy syrup.
- Elsewhere in South America, excepting Bahia in Brazil, one does not encounter piquant cuisine, although one may stumble on a piquant dish now and then...
- French charcuterie relies on cloves in the quatre épices, or four-spice powder, for seasoning fine sausages and piquant marinades.