Pushing vs Knocking - What's the difference?
pushing | knocking |
Dealing illicit drugs, especially to minors.
That pushes forward; pressing, driving.
Aggressively assertive; pushy.
*1890 , (Oscar Wilde), (The Picture of Dorian Gray) , Ch.XV:
*:Mrs. Erlynne, a pushing nobody, with a delightful lisp and Venetian-red hair
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
An act in which something is knocked on, or the sound thus produced
* {{quote-book, year=1893, author=W. B. Yeats, title=The Celtic Twilight, chapter=, edition=
, passage=These strange openings and closings and knockings were warnings and reminders from the spirits who attend the dying. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1901, author=Carson Jay Lee, title=Oswald Langdon, chapter=, edition=
, passage=There was no response to continued knockings . }}
* {{quote-news, year=2006, date=July 21, author=Keith Harris, Monica Kendrick, Peter Margasak, Bob Mehr, Miles Raymer, Neil Tesser, title=The Treatment, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Recorded live to CD with new instrumentation--artillery shells, tuned suspension cables, boxes filled with springs--and deemphasized guitar parts, it's a beautiful collection of echoes and whispers, drones and knockings , with a gently swelling sense of the sinister. }}
As verbs the difference between pushing and knocking
is that pushing is while knocking is .As nouns the difference between pushing and knocking
is that pushing is the act by which something is pushed while knocking is an act in which something is knocked on, or the sound thus produced.As an adjective pushing
is that pushes forward; pressing, driving.pushing
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