Poking vs Touching - What's the difference?
poking | touching |
The act by which something is touched.
* 2011 , Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)
As verbs the difference between poking and touching
is that poking is present participle of lang=en while touching is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between poking and touching
is that poking is the act by which something is poked while touching is the act by which something is touched.As an adjective touching is
provoking sadness and pity.touching
English
Verb
(head)Synonyms
* emotional, moving, sadNoun
(en noun)- But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings , and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.