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Punching vs Pinching - What's the difference?

punching | pinching |

As verbs the difference between punching and pinching

is that punching is present participle of lang=en while pinching is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between punching and pinching

is that punching is an incident in which someone is punched while pinching is the act of one who or that which pinches.

As an adjective pinching is

that pinches, or causes such a sensation.

punching

English

Verb

(head)

    • Derived terms

    * punching bag

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (gerund of punch) An incident in which someone is punched
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 25, Evonne Barry, Booze and the trail of violence, Herald Sun citation
    • , passage=Over the past four years, the rate of "interpersonal" attacks and "penetrating injuries" - such as stabbings, glassings, punchings , beatings - has doubled, he said. }}
  • process of making holes in something

    • 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.