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Snaking vs Soaking - What's the difference?

snaking | soaking |

As verbs the difference between snaking and soaking

is that snaking is while soaking is .

As nouns the difference between snaking and soaking

is that snaking is a layout or motion that snakes while soaking is immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.

As an adjective soaking is

extremely wet; saturated.

snaking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A layout or motion that snakes.
  • * 1921 , Lewis Ransome Freeman, Down the Columbia
    • Except that the latter's spinal column must have suffered some pretty severe snakings when the camera-carrier went through corduroy bridges...

    soaking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.
    • 1906' ''"We came on a wild-goose chase", grumbled one, as he stirred the fire. "Got nothing but a '''soaking for our pains".'' — Horatio Alger, ''Joe the Hotel Boy , Chapter 2.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Extremely wet; saturated.
    • 1847' ''I shuddered as I stood and looked round me: it was an inclement day for outdoor exercise; not positively rainy, but darkened by a drizzling yellow fog; all under foot was still '''soaking wet with the floods of yesterday. — Charlotte Bronte, ''Jane Eyre , Chapter 5.