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Nodding vs Waving - What's the difference?

nodding | waving |

As verbs the difference between nodding and waving

is that nodding is while waving is .

As nouns the difference between nodding and waving

is that nodding is the act by which one nods while waving is repeated moving of arms or hands to signal.

nodding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Derived terms

    * nodding acquaintance

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which one nods.
  • * 1828 , Robert Mudie, Babylon the Great
    • The Commons, on the other hand, upon permission being granted to appear at their Lordships' bar, come in with as many and as sapient noddings of the head, as a wooden mandarin performs in a tea-dealer's window

    waving

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Repeated moving of arms or hands to signal.