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Pinching vs Swiping - What's the difference?

pinching | swiping |

As verbs the difference between pinching and swiping

is that pinching is while swiping is .

As an adjective pinching

is that pinches, or causes such a sensation.

As a noun pinching

is the act of one who or that which pinches.

pinching

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That pinches, or causes such a sensation
  • * 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
    • It was one January morning, very early — a pinching , frosty morning — the cove all gray with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who or that which pinches.
  • * 2012 , Paul Theroux, The Lower River
    • Simon ate an orange, removing the peel in fastidious pinchings , such delicacy in a dugout on a river flowing through the bush.

    swiping

    English

    Verb

    (head)