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Rapid vs Pounding - What's the difference?

rapid | pounding |

As adjectives the difference between rapid and pounding

is that rapid is very swift or quick while pounding is causing heavy or loud throbs.

As nouns the difference between rapid and pounding

is that rapid is a rough section of a river or stream which is difficult to navigate due to the swift and turbulent motion of the water while pounding is an act in which something or someone is pounded.

As an adverb rapid

is rapidly.

As a verb pounding is

present participle of lang=en.

rapid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Very swift or quick.
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
  • , chapter=5 citation , passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author= Chico Harlan
  • , volume=189, issue=2, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Japan pockets the subsidy … , passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."}}
  • Steep, changing altitude quickly. (of a slope)
  • Needing only a brief exposure time. (of a lens, plate, film, etc.)
  • (England, dialectal) Violent, severe.
  • (obsolete, dialectal) Happy.
  • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (archaic or colloquial) Rapidly.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (often, in the plural) a rough section of a river or stream which is difficult to navigate due to the swift and turbulent motion of the water.
  • (dated) A burst of rapid fire.
  • Derived terms

    * rapidity * rapidly * rapidness * ultrarapid

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    pounding

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act in which something or someone is pounded
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=January 21, author=Robin Pogrebin, title=Undaunted Director at Indian Museum, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=“I took a few poundings in the past.” }}

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing heavy or loud throbs
  • I have a pounding headache.