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Shaking vs Nodding - What's the difference?

shaking | nodding |

As verbs the difference between shaking and nodding

is that shaking is while nodding is .

As nouns the difference between shaking and nodding

is that shaking is a movement that shakes while nodding is the act by which one nods.

shaking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A movement that shakes.

    • nodding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * nodding acquaintance

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which one nods.
  • * 1828 , Robert Mudie, Babylon the Great
    • The Commons, on the other hand, upon permission being granted to appear at their Lordships' bar, come in with as many and as sapient noddings of the head, as a wooden mandarin performs in a tea-dealer's window