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Sidling vs Walking - What's the difference?

sidling | walking |

As adjectives the difference between sidling and walking

is that sidling is while walking is as a human; living.

As verbs the difference between sidling and walking

is that sidling is while walking is .

As nouns the difference between sidling and walking

is that sidling is the motion of one who sidles while walking is .

As an adverb sidling

is .

sidling

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(head)
  • Adverb

    (head)
  • Etymology 2

    Cognate with the above (form of sidle, from (etyl) sidlyng, from which also directly sidling , above).

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of one who sidles.
  • * (Rudyard Kipling), The Centaurs
  • Starring and shying at straws, with sidlings and plungings.

    Anagrams

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    walking

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • .
  • * 1878 , Anthony Trollope, Ayala's Angel
  • Mrs Dosett, aware that daintiness was no longer within the reach of her and hers, did assent to these walkings in Kensington Gardens.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Rob Dorit
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= These 'Bots Are Made for Walking , passage=Walking seems so simple: Just put one foot in front of the other. Yet every step you take is a precarious act. When you walk, your body’s center of mass is rarely located over one of your feet.}}

    Adjective

    (-)
  • as a human; living.
  • Elizabeth knows so many words that they call her the walking dictionary.
    Phil's mother is a walking miracle after surviving that accident.
  • Able to walk in spite of injury or sickness.
  • Characterized by or suitable for walking.
  • a walking tour
    good walking shoes

    Derived terms

    * walking bass * walking cane * walking carpet * walking cast * walking fern * walking frame * walking papers * walking patient * walking stick * walking wounded

    See also

    * shanks' pony